Museum · Bath · Somerset

The Assembly Rooms

The Assembly Rooms is a museum of costume in Bath. It is looked after by the National Trust. A short trip away is The Roman Baths, 600 m off, the first of 58 within 15 km.

Photo: The Assembly Rooms, Mark Anderson (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Where

In Bath

inside the built-up area

Run by

National Trust

a national heritage body

How well known

Top 11%

#922 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 17–22°C

In brief

Museum in Bath

Inside Bath

The Assembly Rooms is inside Bath’s built-up area, with 33 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Cared for by the National Trust

One of the places the National Trust looks after; members usually get in free. About ↓

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

When to go

Highs of 17–22°C mark May to September in Bath.

Jan8° / 2°83 mm

Feb9° / 2°60 mm

Mar11° / 4°54 mm

Apr14° / 5°56 mm

May17° / 8°60 mm

Jun20° / 11°57 mm

Jul22° / 13°61 mm

Aug22° / 13°70 mm

Sep19° / 11°62 mm

Oct15° / 8°84 mm

Nov11° / 5°91 mm

Dec9° / 3°90 mm

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

About

The Assembly Rooms

6 Wikipedia editions have an article on it.

Type: Museum
Run by: National Trust
Wikipedias: Covered in 6 languages
Town: in Bath
Official site: nationaltrust.org.uk/bath-assembly-rooms

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

The map

Finding The Assembly Rooms

Orange marks The Assembly Rooms, and the numbered points match the list of places below.

Towns near it

Bases for a visit

Largest of the 8 is Bath, home to 94,080. The towns whose pages list it: the one it is in, those within 5 km of it, then larger towns further out.

1 · It’s in town

Bath

94,080 people · 41 places to visit

2 · 1.8 km east of it

Bathampton

1,698 people · 35 places to visit

3 · 2.7 km northeast of it

Batheaston

3,878 people · 34 places to visit

4 · 3.9 km southeast of it

Monkton Combe

600 people · 36 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where The Assembly Rooms is	People	Places to visit
Bath	It’s in town	94,080	41
Bathampton	1.8 km east of it	1,698	35
Batheaston	2.7 km northeast of it	3,878	34
Monkton Combe	3.9 km southeast of it	600	36
Bathford	4 km east of it	1,153	33
Limpley Stoke	5 km southeast of it	505	32
Corston	5.5 km west of it	502	8
Freshford	6.4 km southeast of it	333	10

Each has its own grades, prices and things to do.

Make a day of it

Pair The Assembly Rooms with these

There are 58 within 15 km, 5 museums, an art gallery and a fort among them.

MuseumThe Roman Baths600 m away 2

MuseumJane Austen Centre200 m away 3

Art galleryVictoria Art Gallery500 m away · 92K visitors a year 4

MuseumHerschel Museum of Astronomy500 m away 5

Fort · National TrustLittle Solsbury Hill3.3 km away 6

MuseumMuseum of East Asian Art100 m away 7

Garden · National TrustPrior Park2.5 km away 8

MuseumHolburne Museum800 m away

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

Know before you visit The Assembly Rooms

Where is The Assembly Rooms?

The Assembly Rooms is in Bath, Somerset, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is The Assembly Rooms?

Museum of costume in Bath, England, United Kingdom.

Who runs The Assembly Rooms?

National Trust, so members usually get in free; check opening times before you go.

When is the best time to visit The Assembly Rooms?

May to September are the warmest months in Bath, with afternoon highs of 17–22°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near The Assembly Rooms?

Within 15 km: The Roman Baths (600 m), Jane Austen Centre (200 m), Victoria Art Gallery (500 m) and Herschel Museum of Astronomy (500 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)

The Assembly Rooms: Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
The Roman Baths: Diliff, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
Jane Austen Centre: Fahdshariff at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Victoria Art Gallery: Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Herschel Museum of Astronomy: Nveitch at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Little Solsbury Hill: Beechenbummer at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Museum of East Asian Art: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Prior Park: Infilms, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Holburne Museum: David A. Russo, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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