Australian Sports Museum

Sporting museum in Melbourne, Australia

Australian Sports Museum

Outside Australian Sports Museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Former name

| National Sports Museum
Established| 22 November 1986
As the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum
13 March 2008
As the National Sports Museum
Dissolved| 4 October 2003
As the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum
Location| Melbourne, Australia
Type| Sporting museum
Website| australiansportsmuseum.org.au

The Australian Sports Museum (formerly the National Sports Museum) is a museum dedicated to Australian sport and is located within the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia. There are exhibits for sports such as cricket, Australian rules football, the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, tennis, rugby league, rugby union, soccer, basketball, boxing and netball. The Australian Sports Hall of Fame is also located within the museum along with the Australian Racing Museum and the Melbourne Cricket Club Museum.

The adjoining MCC Museum features exhibitions relating to the history of the Melbourne Cricket Club. On 6 October 2010, the Australian Racing Museum was absorbed into the Australian Sports Museum, which has now resulted in horse racing standing alongside other prominent Australian sports.

The museum was called the National Sports Museum, and closed in August 2019[1] for a $17.1 million redevelopment ($5 million of which was contributed by the state government[2]). It is set to re-open (with the new name) in February 2020.[needs update][1][2]

## Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum

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Before the Australian Sports Museum opened, the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum operated for 17 years before it closed. The museum was located in front of the former MCC Members Stand which opened in 1928, which was demolished at the same time as the museum. It initially opened on 22 November 1986 before closing to the public on 4 October 2003. More than 35,000 went through the museum in its final week in operation, when it was opened to the public for free in conjunction with access to the former MCC Members Pavilion.

## References

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1. ^ a b "National Sports Museum". Archived from the original on 20 January 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
2. ^ a b "MCC appoints arete Australia to complete National Sports Museum redevelopment".

## External links

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* Official website
* Media related to National Sports Museum (Australia) at Wikimedia Commons

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