Turner Contemporary Gallery
Set in Margate, Turner Contemporary Gallery is an art gallery. Close by, within 5 km, are 9 more places to see. Look also at Dreamland Margate, 700 m away.
Art gallery in Margate
Inside Margate
Turner Contemporary Gallery is inside Margate’s built-up area, with 9 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.
A month-by-month guide
In Margate, May to September bring the warmest days: highs of 17–23°C.
Turner Contemporary Gallery
Art gallery.
In Margate, inside the town’s built-up area.
- Type
- Art gallery
- Town
- in Margate
- Official site
- turnercontemporary.org
How to visit
Where to find Turner Contemporary Gallery
Orange is Turner Contemporary Gallery; numbered in green, the places near it.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Margate’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Towns close to Turner Contemporary Gallery
Largest of the 4 is Margate, home to 63,315. The towns are in order of distance, its own town first.
Margate
Broadstairs
Ramsgate
Minster (Thanet)
Compare the 4 towns
| Town | Where Turner Contemporary Gallery is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margate | It’s in town | 63,315 | 28 |
| Broadstairs | 2.8 km southeast of it | 25,780 | 25 |
| Ramsgate | 3.5 km south of it | 42,031 | 26 |
| Minster (Thanet) | 4 km southwest of it | 4,739 | 30 |
Worth adding to a visit
Our list has 35 more within 15 km, among them 5 museums, a theme park and an attraction.
Theme parkDreamland Margate700 m away2MuseumMuseumCrab Museum200 m away3
AttractionThe Scenic Railway700 m away4
MuseumCervia7.2 km away5
Historic houseQuex Park5 km away6
MuseumPowell-Cotton Museum5.4 km away7
MuseumDickens House Museum5.6 km away8
MuseumSundowner7.2 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
A visit to Turner Contemporary Gallery: questions
Where is Turner Contemporary Gallery?
Turner Contemporary Gallery is in Margate, Kent, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Turner Contemporary Gallery?
Art gallery.
When is the best time to visit Turner Contemporary Gallery?
May to September are the warmest months in Margate, with afternoon highs of 17–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Turner Contemporary Gallery?
Within 15 km: Dreamland Margate (700 m), Crab Museum (200 m), The Scenic Railway (700 m) and Cervia (7.2 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 (7)
- Dreamland Margate: Ruth Johnston from United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- The Scenic Railway: Peet13, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cervia: stavros1, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Quex Park: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Powell-Cotton Museum: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dickens House Museum: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sundowner: Stavros1, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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