Australian Sports Museum

Located within the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Australian Sports Museum showcases Australia’s extensive sporting history through interactive exhibits and a vast collection of memorabilia. Visitors can engage with displays covering various sports, including Australian Rules Football, cricket, and the Olympic Games, offering an immersive experience for all ages.

Planning your visit

The Australian Sports Museum sits inside the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which is the appropriate address — the MCG is the spiritual centre of Australian sport, holding 100,000 people, home of the Boxing Day Test and the AFL Grand Final, and host of the 1956 Olympics. The museum covers the national sporting obsession across Australian Rules football, cricket, the Olympics, soccer, basketball, racing and more, using memorabilia, film and interactive exhibits including reaction-time and skill challenges visitors can attempt.

The collection includes genuine relics of national significance: Bradman material, Olympic memorabilia, and the objects around which Australian sporting mythology is built.

The museum works considerably better combined with the MCG stadium tour, which takes you into the players' race, the changing rooms, and out to the boundary of an empty stadium — the scale of the ground from field level is the memorable part. Tour availability depends on the fixture schedule, so checking match days before booking matters.

Bookable options include general admission to the museum, combination tickets pairing the behind-the-scenes stadium tour with museum entry, and sports walking tours of the Melbourne sporting precinct — which also contains Rod Laver Arena and AAMI Park — with museum entry included. Current availability is shown below.