Type Museum
Type Museum is a london museum. Its location is inside Lambeth’s built-up area. Add Westminster Abbey, 2.9 km away, to a visit; it leads 617 places within 15 km.
Museum in Lambeth
Inside Lambeth
Type Museum is inside Lambeth’s built-up area, with 277 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.
The year in Lambeth
Afternoons in Lambeth reach 18–24°C from May to September.
Type Museum
There are Wikipedia articles on it in 3 languages.
- Type
- Museum
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 3 languages
- Town
- in Lambeth
- Official site
- typearchive.org
Its place on the map
The places near Type Museum are numbered on the map in the order below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Lambeth’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Bases for a visit
Among the 8, Wandsworth is the biggest, home to 326,725 people. These are the towns that list it, beginning with its own.
Lambeth
Southwark
Wandsworth
Westminster
Compare the 8 towns
| Town | Where Type Museum is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambeth | It’s in town | 317,108 | 450 |
| Southwark | 800 m east of it | 307,076 | 471 |
| Wandsworth | 1.2 km southwest of it | 326,725 | 442 |
| Westminster | 1.7 km northwest of it | 203,571 | 461 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 2.8 km northwest of it | 143,348 | 399 |
| City of London | 4 km north of it | 7,820 | 432 |
| Camden | 4.1 km north of it | 209,342 | 458 |
| Lewisham | 4.3 km east of it | 300,764 | 218 |
Combine it with these
There are 617 within 15 km, 2 attractions, 2 art galleries and a cathedral among them.
Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey2.9 km away2
Big drawMuseumBritish Museum5.1 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)3
Historic houseBuckingham Palace3.5 km away4
AttractionElizabeth Tower3 km away5
Big drawCastleTower of London4.6 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)6
AttractionLondon Eye3.3 km away7
Big drawArt galleryNational Gallery4 km away · 709K visitors a year (2021)8
Big drawArt galleryTate Modern3.9 km away · 1.2M visitors a year (2021)Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
A visit to Type Museum: questions
Where is Type Museum?
Type Museum is in Lambeth, London, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Type Museum?
London museum.
When is the best time to visit Type Museum?
May to September are the warmest months in Lambeth, with afternoon highs of 18–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Type Museum?
Within 15 km: Westminster Abbey (2.9 km), British Museum (5.1 km), Buckingham Palace (3.5 km) and Elizabeth Tower (3 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)
- Type Museum: bongo vongo, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- London Eye: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Gallery: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tate Modern: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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