The Fan Museum
The Fan Museum stands in Greenwich. The surrounding 5 km hold 45 more places to visit. A drive of 500 m reaches Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Museum in Greenwich
Inside Greenwich
The Fan Museum is inside Greenwich’s built-up area, with 45 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.
Seasons in Greenwich
If warmth matters, go May to September: Greenwich reaches 18–24°C.
The Fan Museum
Its Wikipedia coverage spans 6 languages.
- Type
- Museum
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 6 languages
- Town
- in Greenwich
- Official site
- thefanmuseum.org.uk
Know before you go
- EntryA fee is charged
Map of The Fan Museum and nearby
Orange shows The Fan Museum; numbers mark the places near it.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Greenwich’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Towns around The Fan Museum, by distance
Newham, with 351,065 people, is the largest of the 6. Closest first, each of these towns names it on its page.
Greenwich
Lewisham
Tower Hamlets
Southwark
Nearby, too
Choose from 568 places within 15 km, such as 5 museums, a castle and a cathedral.
Big drawMuseumNational Maritime Museum300 m away · 2.4M visitors a year3
Big drawCastleTower of London5.7 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)4
MuseumCutty Sark400 m away5
Big drawMuseumBritish Museum9.4 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)6
MuseumQueen's House400 m away7
Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey8.6 km away8
AttractionElizabeth Tower8.4 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Visiting The Fan Museum: the answers
Where is The Fan Museum?
The Fan Museum is in Greenwich, London, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is The Fan Museum?
Museum in London, England, United Kingdom.
When is the best time to visit The Fan Museum?
May to September are the warmest months in Greenwich, with afternoon highs of 18–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near The Fan Museum?
Within 15 km: Royal Observatory Greenwich (500 m), National Maritime Museum (300 m), Tower of London (5.7 km) and Cutty Sark (400 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 (8)
- The Fan Museum: Visit Greenwich from Greenwich, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Maritime Museum: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cutty Sark: Krzysztof Belczyński from Warsaw, POLAND, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Queen's House: Vladimír Procházka, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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