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National Football Museum Scores in Hong Kong
The Museum has launched a stunning exhibition in Hong Kong to mark the 2006 World Cup.
The Museum has teamed up with the Hong Kong Museum of History to produce its first major oversees exhibition. The display, split into several themes, includes zones on the early development of the game, European and British football, the women's game and the World Cup.
The National Football Museum has loaned objects to exhibitions in Japan , Brazil , Germany and Portugal in the past. This is the first time that the Museum has created a complete exhibition for an overseas project.
The 1,000 square metre exhibition displays over 150 objects from the Museum's collections including works of art, a World Cup winner's medal, an FA Cup winner's medal from 1889, a Manchester United European Cup winner's medal from 1968 and a selection of match worn shirts including those belonging to Peter Schmeichel, Alan Hansen and Alfredo Di Stefano.
Dr Ting, Senior Curator from the Hong Kong Museum of History, said: “We are delighted to be working with such a prestigious Museum as the National Football Museum . Their collections are the envy of the world and we believe that this exhibition will be very popular as the Hong Kong people are passionate about the game of football.”
The exhibition was officially opened on Tuesday 29th June in front of a vast array of media from radio, television and the written press. It continues until 18 September.
Previous temporary exhibitions at the Hong Kong Museum of History have included the ‘Terracotta Warriors' which attracted over 250,000 visitors. It is hoped that the ‘Football' exhibition will match these numbers.