Sport is the essence of this country.
It generates pride from within the community and it generates respect from around the world. Australia’s greatest showcase of sport is housed at the National Sports Museum, across two levels of the Olympic Stand at the MCG.
The National Sports Museum will include a number of permanent and temporary exhibitions focused on a range of sporting subjects, including Australian football, basketball, boxing, cricket (including the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame), cycling, golf, hockey, netball, Olympic and Paralympic Games, rugby union, rugby league, soccer and tennis.
It will also tell the MCG story and include an extensive interactive area – ideal for kids of all ages.
The National Sports Museum will also bring renewed energy to the MCG’s traditional role as the spiritual home of Australian sport, re-establishing the stadium’s renowned heritage facilities within a new, modern museums and entertainment precinct for use by the public, MCC members and tourists alike.
Visitors will enter the National Sports Museum via Gate 3 and immerse themselves in some of the finest sports-related memorabilia and interactive technology witnessed anywhere in the world.
The National Sports Museum will incorporate:
• Faster, Higher, Stronger (Olympics)
• Backyard to Baggy Green (Cricket)
• Spirit of Sport (Sport Australia Hall of Fame)
• Australia's Game (Australian Football)
• The People's Ground (MCG)
• Multi-Sports exhibition
• Game On (Interactive Gallery)
• Melbourne Cricket Club Museum
The large space reserved for the National Sports Museum is three times the size of the area previously available in the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum, established in 1986 and demolished in 2003 as part of the northern stand redevelopment project.
For more information, please visit www.nsm.org.au
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