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National Motorcycle Museum

National Motorcycle Museum is a motorcycle museum. Birmingham has it inside its built-up area. A typical year brings about 250K visitors.

Photo: National Motorcycle Museum, Snowmanradio (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Where

In Birmingham

inside the built-up area

Visitors a year

250K

Wikidata

How well known

Top 6%

#465 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Sep

highs of 19–22°C

In brief

Museum in Birmingham

One of the best-known places to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

#465 of the 8,556 museums, castles, gardens and other attractions we list, by how widely it is covered (5 Wikipedias). About ↓

Inside Birmingham

National Motorcycle Museum is inside Birmingham’s built-up area, with 1 more place to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Choosing a month

In Birmingham the warm season is June to September, with highs of 19–22°C.

Jan7° / 2°68 mm

Feb8° / 2°52 mm

Mar10° / 3°50 mm

Apr14° / 5°53 mm

May17° / 7°59 mm

Jun20° / 10°70 mm

Jul22° / 12°62 mm

Aug21° / 12°66 mm

Sep19° / 10°61 mm

Oct14° / 7°75 mm

Nov10° / 4°75 mm

Dec8° / 2°75 mm

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

About

National Motorcycle Museum

Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 5 languages. Look also at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 14 km away, first of 70 more within 15 km.

Type: Museum
Visitors: 250K visitors a year
Wikipedias: Covered in 5 languages
Town: in Birmingham
Official site: nationalmotorcyclemuseum.co.uk

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

The map

Where National Motorcycle Museum is

Spot National Motorcycle Museum in orange, then follow the numbers to the places below.

Towns near it

Towns that list National Motorcycle Museum

The biggest base of the 8 is Birmingham (1,121,367 people). Pick a base: each town is a page of its own, with what else there is to see.

1 · It’s in town

Birmingham

1,121,367 people · 61 places to visit

2 · 200 m south of it

Hampton in Arden

1,867 people · 3 places to visit

3 · 2.9 km west of it

Solihull

107,754 people · 14 places to visit

4 · 3 km southwest of it

Catherine-de-Barnes

626 people · 3 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where National Motorcycle Museum is	People	Places to visit
Birmingham	It’s in town	1,121,367	61
Hampton in Arden	200 m south of it	1,867	3
Solihull	2.9 km west of it	107,754	14
Catherine-de-Barnes	3 km southwest of it	626	3
Meriden	3.5 km east of it	2,203	5
Balsall Common	3.6 km southeast of it	7,094	13
Eastcote	3.6 km south of it	289	3
Coleshill	3.8 km north of it	6,744	4

Make a day of it

More near National Motorcycle Museum

Within 15 km you can add 3 cathedrals, 2 museums and 2 castles.

Big drawMuseumBirmingham Museum & Art Gallery14 km away · 856K visitors a year 2

CathedralCoventry Cathedral Church of St Michael14 km away 3

Castle · English HeritageKenilworth Castle13 km away 4

CathedralSt Philip's Cathedral14 km away 5

MuseumHerbert Art Gallery & Museum14 km away · 300K visitors a year (2010)6

CastleMaxstoke Castle6.5 km away 7

CathedralSt Chad's Cathedral14 km away 8

Historic house · National TrustBaddesley Clinton12 km away

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

Visiting National Motorcycle Museum

Where is National Motorcycle Museum?

National Motorcycle Museum is in Birmingham, West Midlands, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is National Motorcycle Museum?

Motorcycle museum in West Midlands, England.

How many people visit National Motorcycle Museum?

About 250K visitors a year.

When is the best time to visit National Motorcycle Museum?

June to September are the warmest months in Birmingham, with afternoon highs of 19–22°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near National Motorcycle Museum?

Within 15 km: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (14 km), Coventry Cathedral Church of St Michael (14 km), Kenilworth Castle (13 km) and St Philip's Cathedral (14 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (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)

National Motorcycle Museum: Snowmanradio, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Coventry Cathedral Church of St Michael: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Kenilworth Castle: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Philip's Cathedral: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum: E Gammie, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Maxstoke Castle: Steve Wilson from Marchwood, The New Forest, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Chad's Cathedral: G-Man at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Baddesley Clinton: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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