Data cluster

Thailand Museum APIs and Visitor Data.

SAC, M-Culture, Fine Arts, Museum Thailand, TAT, DASTA, DMR, WisdomKing, OSM/Wikidata, hours, fees, exhibits, events, visitor stats, and museum source confidence.

16 sources Updated 2026-05-11 Download JSON

Best use for travel intelligence

For travel decisions, museum data is strongest when it separates open status, hours, fees, accessibility, exhibits, rainy-day fit, and visitor suitability from a generic attraction list.

What this changes for travelers

SAC: Broad museum existence, status, management type, descriptions, hours, fees, and visitor context for the national spine.
M-Culture: Official listed-museum registry context from Ministry of Culture and provincial cultural-office data.
Fine Arts: National museum locations, visitor statistics, Smart/Virtual Museum content, historical parks, and learning-site context.
Museum Thailand / TAT / DASTA: Visitor-facing hours, fees, suitability, accessibility, facilities, routes, events, and tourism metadata.
OSM / Wikidata / Commons / POI APIs: Coordinates, polygons, aliases, IDs, images, reviews, ratings, and live-hour enrichment with licensing caveats.

Best sources to start with

Best nationwide museum spine: SAC Museum Database for broad museum discovery, status, management type, visitor details, hours, fees, descriptions, and exhibit context where exposed.
Best official registry layer: M-Culture museum dataset for Ministry of Culture listed-museum records and province-level reconciliation.
Best national museum and visitor-stat source: Fine Arts national museum datasets and Visitor API for Fine Arts-managed museums, historical parks, learning sites, images, coordinates, and counts.
Best visitor-facing metadata: Museum Thailand / NDMI for hours, fees, free-entry eligibility, accessibility, facilities, directions, virtual museum links, events, visitor counts, and favorites.
Best tourism and long-tail enrichment: TAT/TAT Data API, DASTA, DMR, WisdomKing, provincial GDC catalogs, OSM, Wikidata/Commons, and licensed POI APIs for events, specialist museums, coordinates, images, reviews, and current hours.

Official / agency sources

8 of 16 sources look official or agency-backed.

API/feed candidates

14 sources expose API, feed, CKAN/DataStore, JSON, XML, or similar machine-readable access.

Near-real-time signals

4 sources have live, hourly, event-driven, warning, or frequent update language.

Developer note

Use SAC and M-Culture for the spine, Fine Arts for national museums and visitor stats, Museum Thailand/TAT for visitor metadata, and OSM/Wikidata for coordinates and identifiers.

Last checked and source confidence

Last checked: 2026-05-11.

Source confidence: This cluster is strongest when several sources describe the same traveler problem from different angles: official context, machine-readable feeds, and slower fallback documentation.

Museums and learning sites

DASTA community museums and routes API

Community-based tourism API for community attractions, local learning centers, cultural activities, events/festivals, accommodations, and recommended routes that can include museum-like community heritage sites.

Web API Museums and learning sites

Department of Mineral Resources museum locations

Geological, mineral, and paleontology museum location/detail data under the Department of Mineral Resources, including geospatial coordinates and visitor-count resources where exposed.

DMR catalog resources, CSV, ArcGIS REST service/API, data dictionary where exposed 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.

Fine Arts data catalog, XLSX/CSV/RDF/API resources where exposed Museums and learning sites

Fine Arts Smart Museum and Virtual Museum

National museum virtual visits, 360-degree antiquities, 3D models, virtual rooms, cultural heritage GIS, museum objects, and digital learning resources.

Official public websites, virtual museum pages, Smart Museum pages, digital heritage systems Museums and learning sites

Fine Arts Visitor API

Visitor statistics for Fine Arts learning sites such as historical parks, national museums, national archives, national libraries, and other learning sites. Best official visitor-count layer for Fine Arts-managed museums.

Fine Arts Open Data/API Museums and learning sites

M-Culture museum dataset

Official Ministry of Culture museum dataset collected through provincial cultural offices and the M-Culture system. Useful for listed museum registry fields, categories, and province-level reconciliation.

CKAN/DataStore-style resources, CSV/XML/PDF/Data API where exposed Museums and learning sites

Museum Thailand / NDMI

Rich visitor-facing museum metadata: descriptions, management type, museum type, visitor/favorite counts, opening days/hours, admission, free-entry eligibility, booking notes, accessibility, facilities, directions, virtual museum links, highlights, and events.

Public website/app; no documented public API verified Museums and learning sites

National Science Museum and science-center pages

Official visitor-facing context for science museums, Natural History Museum, IT Museum, Rama IX Museum, science centers, booking forms, hours, fees, education activities, and current closure/event notices.

Official public websites, booking forms, museum unit pages, education/event pages Museums and learning sites

Open DBD museum operators

Private museum, gallery, attraction, and museum-operator company discovery using juristic-person records. Business registration validates an operator entity, not visitor opening status.

Public company search/download/API-style surfaces where available 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.

OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts Museums and learning sites

Provincial museum and cultural learning center datasets

Long-tail provincial museum counts, cultural learning centers, local heritage sites, community museums, tourism attractions, and cultural-economy resources.

Provincial GDC/CKAN resources, DataStore APIs, CSV/TSV/JSON/XML where exposed 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 website and crawlable museum detail pages; no documented public API verified Museums and learning sites