Australian Sports Museum
The Australian 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.Photo: Aaroncrick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum dedicated to Australian sport, located in Melbourne, Australia
- Also known as: “National Sports Museum”, “The Australian Sports Museum”, and “The National Sport Museum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Melbourne Cricket Ground and Yarra Park.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Stadium
Photo: Flickerd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground, also known locally as the 'G', is a multi-purpose sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Australia. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the eleventh-largest stadium globally and the second-largest cricket stadium by capacity. Melbourne Cricket Ground is situated 150 metres southwest of Australian Sports Museum.
Yarra Park
Park
Melbourne Park
Sports venue
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melbourne Park is a sporting venue in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 1988, Melbourne Park has been home of the Australian Open tennis tournament played annually in January. Melbourne Park is situated 380 metres southwest of Australian Sports Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jolimont and Inner east.
Jolimont
Neighborhood
Jolimont is an unbounded neighbourhood of the suburb of East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Situated to the south east of the city's primary axis, Jolimont features parks, business precincts and a limited amount of residential accommodation.
Inner east
Photo: Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY 2.0.
The inner east of Melbourne consists of a number of suburbs and localities within the Yarra municipality. Compared with glitzy Stonnington on the other side of the river, the inner eastern area is known among Melburnians as a working-class district, filled with pubs and old factories.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
Photo: Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Centred at the eastern end of Little Bourke Street, it extends between the corners of Swanston and Spring streets, and consists of numerous laneways, alleys and arcades.
Australian Sports Museum
- Categories: sports museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.81887° or 37° 49′ 8″ southLongitude
144.98435° or 144° 59′ 4″ eastOpen location code
4RJ65XJM+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 4469617901OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q4315039
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Thai—“Australian Sports Museum” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Museu dels Esports Australià”
- Esperanto: “Nacia Sporta Muzeo”
- Hausa: “Australian Sports Museum”
- Hebrew: “מוזיאון הספורט האוסטרלי”
- Hebrew: “מוזיאון הספורט הלאומי”
- Hebrew: “מוזיאון הספורט של אוסטרליה”
- Indonesian: “Museum Olahraga Australia”
- Japanese: “国立スポーツ博物館”
- Russian: “Национальный музей спорта (Австралия)”
- Russian: “Национальный музей спорта”
- Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์กีฬาแห่งชาติ”
- Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์กีฬาออสเตรเลีย”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Event Gates and Jolimont railway station.
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