Australia’s first dedicated sports museum offers a range of activities for people of all ages.
The National Sports Museum not only offers families the opportunity to see some of the most iconic items from Australia’s rich sporting history, but also test their own sporting skills on a range of high-tech interactive displays.
The National Sports Museum's interactive gallery, Game On, is a new ‘hands, feet and bottoms-on’ area within the museum.
It’s an extension of the original interactive gallery, but this time offering a larger range of sporting activities from cricket, football, bike racing, soccer and archery as well as a newspaper “sports-desk” interactive, multi-media screens and a comprehensive list of sporting world records.
There is also a new netball interactive, designed to inspire young players with images of Australian netballers from the 2008 International Test Series.
Visitors enter into the area via a portion of the actual running track from the 2006 Commonwealth Games and into a world of action – they can test their own goal kicking skills against AFL players, run out Adam Gilchrist on a virtual cricket pitch, test their hand-eye co-ordination and kick, throw, shoot, ride, race and run to their heart’s content. It’s the perfect place for kids (of all ages) to let off steam!
NSM Cinema Sport is a 34-seat cinema screen, will offer non-stop sporting action, screening three 12-minute films created especially for the NSM.
The opening program will include Nerves of Steel (an expose on dangerous alpine sport Skeleton), a film dedicated to champion racing car driver Peter Brock’s domination at Bathurst titled King of the Mountain and an abridged version of the surfing blockbuster Bustin’ Down the Door, which showcases some of the best Australian surfers and their impact on the international surfing circuit.
The area around the cinema will be enhanced by objects from the museum’s collection, including a racing wheelchair, a collection of historic and contemporary rowing oars and javelins and promotional banners and a drum from 1940s boxing bouts.
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