RAF Museum
RAF Museum is an aviation museum. Visitors find it inside Barnet’s built-up area. Top of the 505 other places within 15 km is British Museum, 12 km off.
Museum in Barnet
One of the best-known places to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
#372 of the 8,556 museums, castles, gardens and other attractions we list, by how widely it is covered (15 Wikipedias). About ↓
Inside Barnet
RAF Museum is inside Barnet’s built-up area, with 5 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
The seasons here
May to September are the warmest in Barnet, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C.
RAF Museum
It is written up in 15 Wikipedias.
- Type
- Museum
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 15 languages
- Town
- in Barnet
- Official site
- rafmuseum.org.uk/london
Address and hours
Getting your bearings
The orange dot is RAF Museum; the numbers are the places near it, as listed below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Barnet’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Nearby towns
The largest of the 4 towns is Barnet, with 388,572 people. The town it is in comes first, then the others whose pages list it, nearest first.
Barnet
Brent
Harrow
Borehamwood
Compare the 4 towns
| Town | Where RAF Museum is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnet | It’s in town | 388,572 | 102 |
| Brent | 1.4 km south of it | 340,611 | 245 |
| Harrow | 2 km west of it | 260,534 | 23 |
| Borehamwood | 4.4 km north of it | 39,760 | 18 |
Beyond RAF Museum
A visit can add 3 museums, 2 attractions and a historic house, from 505 places within 15 km.
Big drawMuseumBritish Museum12 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)2
Historic houseBuckingham Palace13 km away3
Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey13 km away4
AttractionElizabeth Tower13 km away5
MuseumMadame Tussauds10 km away6
Big drawArt galleryNational Gallery13 km away · 709K visitors a year (2021)7
AttractionLondon Eye13 km away8
Big drawMuseumVictoria and Albert Museum12 km away · 858K visitors a year (2021)Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
RAF Museum, answered
Where is RAF Museum?
RAF Museum is in Barnet, London, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is RAF Museum?
Aviation museum in London, United Kingdom.
When is the best time to visit RAF Museum?
May to September are the warmest months in Barnet, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near RAF Museum?
Within 15 km: British Museum (12 km), Buckingham Palace (13 km), Westminster Abbey (13 km) and Elizabeth Tower (13 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)
- RAF Museum: Panhard, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Madame Tussauds: Citizen59, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Gallery: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- London Eye: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Victoria and Albert Museum: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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