Museums and learning sites

SAC Museum Database.

Closest nationwide museum spine, with museum names, province/district, address, phone, opening hours, admission, website/social links, founded year, highlights, management type, content category, status, descriptions, and object/exhibit context where exposed.

Public, automation terms unclear Public website and crawlable museum detail pages; no documented public API verified Free public web access; confirm reuse terms before bulk ingestion Weekly list/status checks; weekly or monthly detail refresh Open source
Runtime role

Catalog only

Access class

Public, automation terms unclear

Access type

Public website and crawlable museum detail pages; no documented public API verified

Free status

Free public web access; confirm reuse terms before bulk ingestion

Cadence

Weekly list/status checks; weekly or monthly detail refresh

Last verified

2026-05-11

Access class note

Publicly reachable, but automation, bulk reuse, or production SLA terms still need an operator or licensing review.

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.

Endpoint and API notes

Closest nationwide museum spine, with museum names, province/district, address, phone, opening hours, admission, website/social links, founded year, highlights, management type, content category, status, descriptions, and object/exhibit context where exposed.

Open the source endpoint or documentation. Return to the Thailand data atlas.

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

Weekly for high-priority museum pages and events; monthly for long-tail pages. No documented public bulk API was verified, so treat this as website or app metadata unless permission is obtained.

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

# Source landing or publication page; inspect linked documents or resources before automation.
curl -L "https://db.sac.or.th/museum/"

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.

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.