Swansea Museum
Swansea Museum is a museum in Swansea. This is a site of Swansea County Borough Council. Close by, Swansea Castle is 400 m away, one of 38 within 15 km.
Museum in Swansea
Inside Swansea
Swansea Museum is inside Swansea’s built-up area, with 20 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 year in Swansea
The warmest afternoons in Swansea run June to September, at 18–21°C.
Swansea Museum
Its story is told in 4 languages on Wikipedia.
- Type
- Museum
- Run by
- Swansea County Borough Council
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 4 languages
- Town
- in Swansea
- Official site
- swanseamuseum.co.uk
Practical details
Getting your bearings
On this map, Swansea Museum is orange and its neighbours are numbered.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Swansea’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Where people come from
Start with its own town; the others follow by distance.
Swansea
Other places close by
Among the 38 within 15 km are 3 castles, 2 museums and a cathedral.
Castle · CadwSwansea Castle400 m away2
CathedralSt Joseph's Cathedral1.7 km away3
MuseumNational Waterfront Museum100 m away4
MuseumGlynn Vivian Art Gallery800 m away5
ZooPlantasia500 m away6
CastleOystermouth Castle6.4 km away7
Water parkLC Waterpark200 m away8
Castle · CadwLoughor Castle11 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Questions about Swansea Museum
Where is Swansea Museum?
Swansea Museum is in Swansea, West Glamorgan, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Swansea Museum?
Museum in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.
Who runs Swansea Museum?
Swansea County Borough Council.
When is the best time to visit Swansea Museum?
June to September are the warmest months in Swansea, with afternoon highs of 18–21°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Swansea Museum?
Within 15 km: Swansea Castle (400 m), St Joseph's Cathedral (1.7 km), National Waterfront Museum (100 m) and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery (800 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)
- Swansea Museum: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Swansea Castle: Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Joseph's Cathedral: Saint_Josephs_Cathedral_swansea.JPG: Wiccasha derivative work: Rabanus Flavus, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- National Waterfront Museum: Reading Tom from Reading, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Glynn Vivian Art Gallery: Sionk, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Plantasia: David Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Oystermouth Castle: Jennifer Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- LC Waterpark: John Grayson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Loughor Castle: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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