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Museums and learning sites

TAT Data API museum place and event detail.

Official tourism API layer for Search Place, Attraction Detail, Event Detail, News, and Recommended Route data. Use museum/category filtering for tourist-facing museums and museum events.

Free registration Registered TAT Data API Free registration/API terms Weekly for place detail; daily or weekly for events Open source
Runtime role

Catalog only

Access class

Free registration

Access type

Registered TAT Data API

Free status

Free registration/API terms

Cadence

Weekly for place detail; daily or weekly for events

Last verified

2026-05-11

Access class note

Publicly reachable, but account creation, an API key, or registration flow may be required.

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

High for official context; validate endpoint availability before automation.

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

Refresh daily, or more often only when the source publishes explicit current-status fields.

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://developers.tourismthailand.org/" -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.
  • Free registration, keys, or rate limits can interrupt automated refresh.

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.