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Inverkeithing Museum

Inverkeithing Museum is a local museum. Its location is inside Inverkeithing’s locality. Officially, it is a category A listed building.

Photo: Inverkeithing Museum, Kim Traynor (CC BY 3.0)

Where

In Inverkeithing

inside the locality

How well known

Top 34%

#2,866 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Sep

highs of 17–20°C

In brief

Museum in Inverkeithing

Inside Inverkeithing

Inverkeithing Museum is inside Inverkeithing’s locality, with 8 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Category A listed building

On the official list of protected heritage; Inverkeithing has 47 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Month by month

In Inverkeithing the warm season is June to September, with highs of 17–20°C.

Jan7° / 1°80 mm

Feb8° / 2°51 mm

Mar10° / 3°54 mm

Apr12° / 4°48 mm

May15° / 7°41 mm

Jun18° / 10°61 mm

Jul20° / 11°78 mm

Aug19° / 11°67 mm

Sep17° / 9°54 mm

Oct13° / 7°78 mm

Nov10° / 4°92 mm

Dec7° / 2°79 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Inverkeithing, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Inverkeithing. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Inverkeithing’s full climate →

About

Inverkeithing Museum

It is written up in 3 Wikipedias. 77 other places to visit are within 15 km, led by Dunfermline Palace & Abbey (ruins) (6 km).

Inverkeithing’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type: Museum
Listed: Category A listed building
Wikipedias: Covered in 3 languages
Town: in Inverkeithing

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Where it sits

Orange marks Inverkeithing Museum, and the numbered points match the list of places below.

Towns near it

Where people come from

The most populous of the 5 is Dunfermline, at 56,053. Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.

1 · It’s in town

Inverkeithing

5,273 people · 16 places to visit

2 · 700 m northwest of it

Rosyth

13,309 people · 18 places to visit

3 · 1.3 km east of it

Dalgety Bay and Hillend

9,452 people · 14 places to visit

4 · 1.5 km northwest of it

Dunfermline

56,053 people · 14 places to visit

Compare the 5 towns

Town	Where Inverkeithing Museum is	People	Places to visit
Inverkeithing	It’s in town	5,273	16
Rosyth	700 m northwest of it	13,309	18
Dalgety Bay and Hillend	1.3 km east of it	9,452	14
Dunfermline	1.5 km northwest of it	56,053	14
South Queensferry	3.2 km south of it	10,214	17

Make a day of it

More near Inverkeithing Museum

Our list has 77 more within 15 km, among them 3 castles, a palace and an art gallery.

Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandDunfermline Palace & Abbey (ruins)6 km away 2

PalaceLinlithgow Palace14 km away 3

Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandBlackness Castle7.8 km away 4

Art galleryScottish National Gallery of Modern Art14 km away · 458K visitors a year (2015)5

CastleAberdour Castle6.8 km away 6

ZooEdinburgh Zoo12 km away 7

MuseumHMY Britannia15 km away 8

GardenRoyal Botanic Garden Edinburgh14 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Good to know about Inverkeithing Museum

Where is Inverkeithing Museum?

Inverkeithing Museum is in Inverkeithing, Fife, inside the town’s locality.

What is Inverkeithing Museum?

Local museum in Fife, Scotland, UK.

When is the best time to visit Inverkeithing Museum?

June to September are the warmest months in Inverkeithing, with afternoon highs of 17–20°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Inverkeithing Museum a listed building?

Yes: category A listed building.

What else is there to see near Inverkeithing Museum?

Within 15 km: Dunfermline Palace & Abbey (ruins) (6 km), Linlithgow Palace (14 km), Blackness Castle (7.8 km) and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (14 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the NRS 2022 locality (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Inverkeithing Museum: Kim Traynor, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Dunfermline Palace & Abbey (ruins): Chiswick Chap, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Linlithgow Palace: Alex Sanz, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Blackness Castle: Dr John Wells, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: Grousebeater2, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Aberdour Castle: Andy Hawkins, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Edinburgh Zoo: billfromesm, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMY Britannia: Akiramenai, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: Steve nova at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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