Catalog only
Museums and learning sites
OpenStreetMap Thailand museum POIs.
Free geospatial enrichment for tourism=museum, museum=*, tourism=gallery, historic=*, building=museum, names, operator, opening_hours, fee, website, contact tags, wheelchair access, Wikidata/Wikipedia links, points, and polygons.
Public
OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts
Free open data under ODbL attribution/share-alike terms
Weekly national sync; daily or weekly for high-tourism areas
2026-05-11
Public web, file, catalog, or documented endpoint access with no paid gate implied in the source profile.
page reference only
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
Medium-high for discovery and context; operational reliability depends on endpoint stability.
Runtime truth
Catalog only
Not yet
No runtime entity scope yet.
No live observation ingestion yet.
Not wired into active decisions yet.
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.
Endpoint and API notes
Free geospatial enrichment for tourism=museum, museum=*, tourism=gallery, historic=*, building=museum, names, operator, opening_hours, fee, website, contact tags, wheelchair access, Wikidata/Wikipedia links, points, and polygons.
Open the source endpoint or documentation. Return to the Thailand data atlas.
Developer reference
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.
Refresh daily, or more often only when the source publishes explicit current-status fields.
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.
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://overpass-turbo.eu/" -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.
- Dashboard markup or public-page layout can change without notice.
- Geospatial layers can be large, tiled, or projection-specific.
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.