The Open Museum
The Open Museum is a community museum in Glasgow. A short trip away is Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, 7.9 km off, the first of 86 within 15 km.
Museum in Glasgow
Inside Glasgow
The Open Museum is inside Glasgow’s locality, with 9 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Month by month
Afternoons in Glasgow reach 18–19°C from June to August.
The Open Museum
Community museum in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
In Glasgow, inside the town’s locality.
- Type
- Museum
- Town
- in Glasgow
- Official site
- glasgowcan.org/the-open-museum
The area around The Open Museum
The places near The Open Museum are numbered on the map in the order below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Glasgow’s locality. · NRS locality 2022
Towns a short way from The Open Museum
With 617,904 people, Glasgow is the largest of the 8. The towns are in order of distance, its own town first.
Glasgow
Barrhead
Paisley
Thornliebank
Compare the 8 towns
| Town | Where The Open Museum is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow | It’s in town | 617,904 | 101 |
| Barrhead | 100 m southwest of it | 17,608 | 15 |
| Paisley | 2.1 km northwest of it | 79,351 | 27 |
| Thornliebank | 2.5 km east of it | 4,084 | 20 |
| Newton Mearns | 2.8 km southeast of it | 28,447 | 17 |
| Giffnock | 3.5 km east of it | 11,963 | 25 |
| Neilston | 4 km southwest of it | 5,459 | 4 |
| Clarkston | 4.3 km southeast of it | 9,486 | 19 |
Other places close by
Within 15 km you can add 3 museums, 2 cathedrals and a castle.
Big drawMuseumKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum7.9 km away · 1M visitors a year2
Big drawMuseumRiverside Museum7 km away · 1.1M visitors a year (2015)3
MuseumGlasgow School of Art8.8 km away4
CathedralGlasgow Cathedral10 km away5
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandCrookston Castle2.7 km away6
Big drawArt galleryGallery of Modern Art8.9 km away · 596K visitors a year7
Historic house · National Trust for ScotlandPollok House3.5 km away8
CathedralSt Mirin's Cathedral5.1 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
What people ask about The Open Museum
Where is The Open Museum?
The Open Museum is in Glasgow, Glasgow City, inside the town’s locality.
What is The Open Museum?
Community museum in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
When is the best time to visit The Open Museum?
June to August are the warmest months in Glasgow, with afternoon highs of 18–19°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near The Open Museum?
Within 15 km: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (7.9 km), Riverside Museum (7 km), Glasgow School of Art (8.8 km) and Glasgow Cathedral (10 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the NRS 2022 locality (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)
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Riverside Museum: Cutkiller2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Glasgow School of Art: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Glasgow Cathedral: Bewahrerderwerte, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Crookston Castle: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gallery of Modern Art: BrainiacBlink, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pollok House: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Mirin's Cathedral: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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