National Football Museum Manchester

National Football Museum.

Building the nation’s museum to football

Back in 2010, the acclaimed National Football Museum moved from its historic home in Preston to the thriving Manchester City Centre. We led the masterplanning of the redevelopment creating new permanent galleries, Hall of Fame, AV theatre, café and retail for fans to enjoy.

National Football Museum Manchester

The National Football Museum offers a fun and engaging experience for all the family. Visitors can test their football skills with penalty kicking, passing, and other tricks.

We devised new, innovative and fun ways of displaying national football collections and the globally significant FIFA collection. Themes and storylines with no objects to support them, and ‘live’ sport, were brought to life with the emotion, skill and passion that it deserves.

The National Football Museum welcomed

210,000

visitors in 2019

We designed a number of interactive exhibits using user-friendly touchscreen technology and pioneering audio-visual techniques. Visitors can even have a go at refereeing to see if they agreed with the decisions in real matches or joining the commentator’s booth.

Gary Lineker and Geoff Hurst take visitors on a personal tour of the Collections Store virtually through a Pepper’s Ghost show, and recount stories associated with the objects they find.

National Football Museum Manchester
“As well as a very creative approach to the displays, Mather & Co are strong on visitor facilities, orientation, and commercial aspects.”
Kevin Moore, former Director, National Football Museum

To explain the science behind the training of professional footballers, we developed a gesture interface table showing a virtual football player. Visitors can interrogate different parts of his body to understand the injuries footballers can sustain and other subjects like nutrition, diet, training and health and fitness.

National Football Museum Manchester

National Football Museum offers

104

activities for families

National Football Museum Manchester

Although the National Football Museum caters for the football fanatic, it was also designed to appeal to those with very little knowledge or interest in the sport. With the sheer diversity of exhibits, and bringing in other subjects such as social history, culture, the arts, local history and politics, we have managed to engage new people in the sport.

“It is so important to have a place where everyone can come and enjoy sharing stories about the nation’s favourite game.”
Alex Scott, MBE, England and Arsenal
National Football Museum Manchester
National Football Museum Manchester
National Football Museum Manchester
National Football Museum Manchester
25%

of visitors are from international destinations

National Football Museum Manchester

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