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Story Museum

Story Museum is a museum in Oxford. The site is run by The Story Museum. There are 76 more places to see within 15 km, beginning with Ashmolean Museum (600 m).

Photo: Story Museum, Duncansaunders (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where

In Oxford

inside the built-up area

Run by

The Story Museum

the operator on record

How well known

Top 28%

#2,392 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 17–23°C

In brief

Museum in Oxford

Inside Oxford

Story Museum is inside Oxford’s built-up area, with 50 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.

When to go

Seasons and weather

From May to September, Oxford sees highs of 17–23°C.

Jan8° / 2°60 mm

Feb8° / 2°47 mm

Mar11° / 3°44 mm

Apr14° / 5°49 mm

May17° / 8°57 mm

Jun20° / 11°50 mm

Jul23° / 13°55 mm

Aug22° / 13°63 mm

Sep19° / 10°54 mm

Oct15° / 8°74 mm

Nov11° / 5°73 mm

Dec8° / 2°67 mm

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

About

Story Museum

3 Wikipedia editions have an article on it.

Type: Museum
Run by: The Story Museum
Wikipedias: Covered in 3 languages
Town: in Oxford
Official site: storymuseum.org.uk

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

Plan your visit

How to visit

Entrance fees

EntryA fee is charged

Hours and entry: OpenStreetMap contributors. They change through the year: check its site before you go.

The map

Finding Story Museum

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

Towns near it

Towns close to Story Museum

Oxford, with 170,799 people, is the largest of the 6. These are the towns that list it, beginning with its own.

1 · It’s in town

Oxford

170,799 people · 55 places to visit

2 · 2.8 km south of it

Kennington

4,595 people · 53 places to visit

3 · 3.5 km southwest of it

Boars Hill

540 people · 52 places to visit

4 · 4.2 km west of it

Chawley

1,127 people · 49 places to visit

Compare the 6 towns

Town	Where Story Museum is	People	Places to visit
Oxford	It’s in town	170,799	55
Kennington	2.8 km south of it	4,595	53
Boars Hill	3.5 km southwest of it	540	52
Chawley	4.2 km west of it	1,127	49
Wolvercote	4.2 km northwest of it	1,328	49
Sandford-on-Thames	4.5 km southeast of it	500	40

Make a day of it

Close to Story Museum

Within 15 km you can add 4 museums, 2 historic houses and a castle.

MuseumAshmolean Museum600 m away 2

MuseumOxford University Museum of Natural History900 m away 3

CastleOxford Castle Motte400 m away 4

MuseumPitt Rivers Museum900 m away 5

Historic houseBeaumont Palace600 m away 6

GardenUniversity of Oxford Botanic Garden700 m away 7

Historic houseBlenheim Palace12 km away 8

MuseumMuseum of the History of Science400 m away

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

A visit to Story Museum: questions

Where is Story Museum?

Story Museum is in Oxford, Oxfordshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Story Museum?

Museum in Oxford, England.

Who runs Story Museum?

The Story Museum.

When is the best time to visit Story Museum?

May to September are the warmest months in Oxford, with afternoon highs of 17–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Story Museum?

Within 15 km: Ashmolean Museum (600 m), Oxford University Museum of Natural History (900 m), Oxford Castle Motte (400 m) and Pitt Rivers Museum (900 m).

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)

Story Museum: Duncansaunders, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Ashmolean Museum: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: The original uploader was MykReeve at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Oxford Castle Motte: Tejvan Pettinger, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Pitt Rivers Museum: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Beaumont Palace: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
University of Oxford Botanic Garden: JMski, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
Blenheim Palace: Jvhertum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Museum of the History of Science: Wiki alf at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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