Musselburgh Museum
Musselburgh Museum is a museum in Musselburgh. Nearby, Edinburgh Castle (9.5 km) heads a list of 149 within 15 km.
Museum in Musselburgh
Inside Musselburgh
Musselburgh Museum is inside Musselburgh’s locality, with 12 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Weather, month by month
Afternoons in Musselburgh reach 17–19°C from June to September.
Musselburgh Museum
Museum in Musselburgh, Scotland, UK.
In Musselburgh, inside the town’s locality.
- Type
- Museum
- Town
- in Musselburgh
- Official site
- musselburghmuseum.org.uk
Around Musselburgh Museum, mapped
Orange marks Musselburgh Museum, and the numbered points match the list of places below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Musselburgh’s locality. · NRS locality 2022
Towns near Musselburgh Museum
In size, Edinburgh comes first of the 7, with 493,794 people. The towns are in order of distance, its own town first.
Musselburgh
Wallyford
Edinburgh
Prestonpans
Compare the 7 towns
| Town | Where Musselburgh Museum is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Musselburgh | It’s in town | 21,476 | 21 |
| Wallyford | 1.5 km east of it | 4,493 | 13 |
| Edinburgh | 1.9 km west of it | 493,794 | 150 |
| Prestonpans | 2.6 km east of it | 10,623 | 9 |
| Dalkeith | 4.4 km south of it | 15,125 | 18 |
| Danderhall | 4.5 km southwest of it | 3,389 | 21 |
| Tranent | 4.8 km east of it | 12,235 | 9 |
Worth adding to a visit
There are 149 within 15 km, 2 castles, 2 art galleries and a historic house among them.
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandEdinburgh Castle9.5 km away2
Historic housePalace of Holyroodhouse7.8 km away3
Big drawArt galleryNational Gallery9.2 km away · 661K visitors a year (2021)4
MuseumNational Museum of Scotland8.8 km away5
CathedralSt Giles' Cathedral8.9 km away6
Abbey or prioryHolyrood Abbey7.7 km away7
Art galleryScottish National Portrait Gallery9.1 km away · 313K visitors a year (2015)8
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandCraigmillar Castle6 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Know before you visit Musselburgh Museum
Where is Musselburgh Museum?
Musselburgh Museum is in Musselburgh, East Lothian, inside the town’s locality.
What is Musselburgh Museum?
Museum in Musselburgh, Scotland, UK.
When is the best time to visit Musselburgh Museum?
June to September are the warmest months in Musselburgh, with afternoon highs of 17–19°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Musselburgh Museum?
Within 15 km: Edinburgh Castle (9.5 km), Palace of Holyroodhouse (7.8 km), National Gallery (9.2 km) and National Museum of Scotland (8.8 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 (8)
- Edinburgh Castle: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Palace of Holyroodhouse: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Gallery: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Museum of Scotland: Maccoinnich~commonswiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Giles' Cathedral: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Holyrood Abbey: Enric, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Original uploader was Maccoinnich at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Craigmillar Castle: Photograph by Stuart Yeates, from en:Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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