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Tolbooth Museum
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Tolbooth Museum

Tolbooth Museum is a museum in Aberdeen. Close by, St Mary's Cathedral is 800 m away, one of 21 within 15 km. Wikipedia covers it in 4 languages.

Photo: Tolbooth Museum, Ragazzi99 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Where
In Aberdeen
inside the locality
How well known
Top 23%
#1,932 of 8,556 places we list
Warmest months
Jul–Aug
highs of 18–18°C
In brief

Museum in Aberdeen

Inside Aberdeen

Tolbooth Museum is inside Aberdeen’s locality, with 16 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

The year in Aberdeen

Expect 18°C highs in Aberdeen in July and August.

Jan7° / 1°69 mm
Feb7° / 1°65 mm
Mar9° / 2°54 mm
Apr11° / 4°58 mm
May13° / 6°53 mm
Jun16° / 9°67 mm
Jul18° / 11°74 mm
Aug18° / 11°72 mm
Sep16° / 9°60 mm
Oct12° / 6°99 mm
Nov9° / 3°91 mm
Dec7° / 1°77 mm
Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Aberdeen, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Aberdeen. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Aberdeen’s full climate →
About

Tolbooth Museum

Museum in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.

In Aberdeen, inside the town’s locality.

Type
Museum
Wikipedias
Covered in 4 languages
Town
in Aberdeen
Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Plan your visit

Visit details

Entrance feesFreeNo entrance fee.
Hours and entry: OpenStreetMap contributors. They change through the year: check its site before you go.
The map

Tolbooth Museum and what surrounds it

Spot Tolbooth Museum in orange, then follow the numbers to the places below.

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© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Aberdeen’s locality. · NRS locality 2022

Towns near it

Towns that count Tolbooth Museum

Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.

12
  1. 1Aberdeen
  2. 2Cove Bay
1 · It’s in town

Aberdeen

192,968 people · 21 places to visit

2 · 4.3 km south of it

Cove Bay

7,926 people · 12 places to visit

Compare the 2 towns
TownWhere Tolbooth Museum isPeoplePlaces to visit
AberdeenIt’s in town192,96821
Cove Bay4.3 km south of it7,92612
Make a day of it

After Tolbooth Museum

21 more lie within 15 km, 3 cathedrals, 2 museums and a castle among them.

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

Questions people have about Tolbooth Museum

Where is Tolbooth Museum?

Tolbooth Museum is in Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, inside the town’s locality.

What is Tolbooth Museum?

Museum in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.

When is the best time to visit Tolbooth Museum?

July and August are the warmest months in Aberdeen, with afternoon highs of 18–18°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Tolbooth Museum?

Within 15 km: St Mary's Cathedral (800 m), St Andrew's Cathedral (100 m), St Machar's Cathedral (2.5 km) and Aberdeen Art Gallery (500 m).

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 (9)

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.