Museum · Birkenhead · Merseyside

Transport Museum

Transport Museum is a transport museum in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside. 62 other places to visit are within 15 km, led by Tate Liverpool (1.7 km). Articles on it exist in 2 languages.

Photo: Transport Museum, Rodhullandemu (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where

In Birkenhead

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 35%

#2,958 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Sep

highs of 18–20°C

In brief

Museum in Birkenhead

Inside Birkenhead

Transport Museum is inside Birkenhead’s built-up area, with 41 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.

When to go

Seasons in Birkenhead

The warmest stretch in Birkenhead is June to September, at 18–20°C in the afternoon.

Jan8° / 3°65 mm

Feb8° / 3°52 mm

Mar10° / 4°48 mm

Apr13° / 6°52 mm

May16° / 9°52 mm

Jun19° / 12°62 mm

Jul20° / 14°66 mm

Aug20° / 14°73 mm

Sep18° / 12°74 mm

Oct14° / 9°83 mm

Nov11° / 6°79 mm

Dec8° / 3°81 mm

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

About

Transport Museum

Transport museum in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, UK.

In Birkenhead, inside the town’s built-up area.

Type: Museum
Wikipedias: Covered in 2 languages
Town: in Birkenhead
Official site: wirral.gov.uk/my-services/leisure-and-culture/arts-and-museums/local-museums-and-galleries/wirral-transport-museum

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

The map

Locating Transport Museum

Orange shows Transport Museum; numbers mark the places near it.

Towns near it

Where people come from

Liverpool, with 506,564 people, is the largest of the 5. Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.

1 · It’s in town

Birkenhead

109,854 people · 49 places to visit

2 · 400 m northwest of it

Wallasey

85,619 people · 43 places to visit

3 · 1.6 km east of it

Liverpool

506,564 people · 61 places to visit

4 · 3.4 km south of it

Bebington

57,607 people · 49 places to visit

Compare the 5 towns

Town	Where Transport Museum is	People	Places to visit
Birkenhead	It’s in town	109,854	49
Wallasey	400 m northwest of it	85,619	43
Liverpool	1.6 km east of it	506,564	61
Bebington	3.4 km south of it	57,607	49
Bootle	4.7 km north of it	53,722	39

Make a day of it

While you are near Transport Museum

62 more lie within 15 km, 3 art galleries, 3 museums and 2 cathedrals among them.

Big drawArt galleryTate Liverpool1.7 km away · 540K visitors a year 2

Art galleryWalker Art Gallery3 km away · 338K visitors a year 3

CathedralLiverpool Cathedral3 km away 4

CathedralMetropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King3.5 km away 5

Big drawMuseumMerseyside Maritime Museum1.8 km away · 945K visitors a year 6

MuseumU-boat Story700 m away 7

Big drawMuseumWorld Museum Liverpool2.9 km away · 606K visitors a year 8

Art galleryLady Lever Art Gallery4.7 km away

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

Asked about Transport Museum

Where is Transport Museum?

Transport Museum is in Birkenhead, Merseyside, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Transport Museum?

Transport museum in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, UK.

When is the best time to visit Transport Museum?

June to September are the warmest months in Birkenhead, with afternoon highs of 18–20°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Transport Museum?

Within 15 km: Tate Liverpool (1.7 km), Walker Art Gallery (3 km), Liverpool Cathedral (3 km) and Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King (3.5 km).

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)

Transport Museum: Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tate Liverpool: Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Walker Art Gallery: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Liverpool Cathedral: calflier001, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King: Superchilum, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Merseyside Maritime Museum: Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
U-boat Story: Paul adams, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
World Museum Liverpool: User:Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Lady Lever Art Gallery: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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