Entry to the National Sports Museum at the MCG is half-price for event ticketholders on match days.
So if your team’s playing, arrive early and visit Australia’s first ever dedicated sports museum.
Launched last year in the new Olympic Stand and accessible via Gate 3 (or crossing from the MCC Members Reserve), the museum offers a range of exhibitions, objects and stories related to Australia’s rich sporting history.
Visitors can see former Essendon champion James Hird and cricketing great Shane Warne in 3D in the museum’s amazing hologram cinemas, or visit the shrine of their favourite club in the Australia’s Game and Australian Football Hall of Fame exhibitions.
Plus, kids of all ages are invited to do some pre-game training in Game On, a new ‘hands, feet and bottoms-on’ area within the museum offering a large range of sporting activities from cricket, football, netball, cycling, soccer and archery as well as a newspaper ‘sports-desk’ interactive.
They can also see the objects that have helped shape Australia’s rich sporting traditions.
There's the baggy-green cap of Sir Donald Bradman, the swift-suit Cathy Freeman wore in Sydney in 2000, Australia’s first ever Olympic gold medal, Sir Jack Brabham’s legendary racing car and the first ever rules hand-written by Australian football’s founding fathers.
Once gates have opened for MCG matches, entry to the museum for ticket-holders costs just $7.50 per adult, $4 per child (5-15 years) and $5.50 for concession card holders. There is also a special event-day family ticket ($25), which grants entry for two adults and four children.
(Note: Full admission charges still apply for entry to the museum prior to gate opening for events on match days.)
The museum opens for event patrons when the stadium’s gates open and closes after game commencement.
Visit here for opening times and other information.