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Museums and learning sites

Fine Arts national museum locations.

Canonical national museum location layer with spatial data, images, coordinates, and learning-resource records for Fine Arts-managed national museums.

Public Fine Arts data catalog, XLSX/CSV/RDF/API resources where exposed Free public/open catalog resources where published Monthly Open source
Runtime role

Catalog only

Access class

Public

Access type

Fine Arts data catalog, XLSX/CSV/RDF/API resources where exposed

Free status

Free public/open catalog resources where published

Cadence

Monthly

Last verified

2026-05-11

Access class note

Public web, file, catalog, or documented endpoint access with no paid gate implied in the source profile.

Used in layers

page reference only

Useful fields

museum name, Thai/English name, aliases, museum type, subject, management type, operator, status, address, province/district/subdistrict, coordinates, opening hours, admission fee, free-entry rules, booking notes, accessibility, facilities, exhibits, events, visitor counts, source IDs

Reliability rating

Medium-high for discovery and context; operational reliability depends on endpoint stability.

Runtime truth

Runtime role

Catalog only

Production ready

Not yet

Entity scope

No runtime entity scope yet.

Observation scope

No live observation ingestion yet.

Decision scope

Not wired into active decisions yet.

Runtime note

Profiled in the atlas and public pages, but not yet connected to live graph computation.

How this helps travel recommendations

Turns museums into practical rainy-day, heat, AQI, family, culture, and route decisions: what is open, who it suits, what it costs, how to get there, and how confident the visitor data is.

Developer reference

Best endpoint

Use SAC as the broad museum spine, M-Culture as the official listed-museum registry, Fine Arts for national museums and visitor stats, Museum Thailand for visitor metadata, TAT/DASTA for tourism/events/routes, DMR/WisdomKing for specialist networks, and OSM/Wikidata for coordinates, IDs, and media.

Recommended refresh

Check weekly for change detection, but treat the official publication period as the real cadence.

Travel scoring role

Turns museums into practical rainy-day, heat, AQI, family, culture, and route decisions: what is open, who it suits, what it costs, how to get there, and how confident the visitor data is.

Comparable / backup source

SAC, M-Culture, Fine Arts, Museum Thailand, TAT, DASTA, DMR, WisdomKing, provincial GDC catalogs, OpenStreetMap/Overpass, Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons, official museum pages, and licensed commercial POI enrichment for top museums.

Example request

# Verify the documented museum endpoint before production use.
curl -L "https://data.finearts.go.th/dataset/" -H "Accept: application/json"

Failure modes

  • There is no single all-museums API.
  • SAC and Museum Thailand are rich public websites but no documented public bulk API was verified.
  • Museum definitions differ: national museums, local museums, galleries, science centers, historic houses, temple museums, archives, and learning centers can overlap.
  • Open/renovation/closed status matters and can change quickly.
  • Hours, fees, holiday closures, free-entry rules, and booking requirements are volatile.
  • Google, Foursquare, and Tripadvisor are useful visitor-enrichment sources but not open canonical databases.
  • Batch files can change schema, naming, encoding, or publication cadence.

Last checked and source confidence

Last checked: 2026-05-11.

Source confidence: Treat this profile as strongest for the exact role named above. It is weaker when the source is stretched into live availability, legal proof, or traveler-fit decisions it does not directly prove.