National Football Museum

Introduction: ------------- The museum-the National Football Museum was originally built here at Deepdale in 2001.It was a long overdue wait for the country which had the world's first football team (Sheffield FC-near where I live!), the first international, the first ground-oh England is the deifnitely the home of football(as the Euro '96 song reminded us).The museum tells the story of football-the worlds most populaur, easiest to play and best game.I myself are a football nut supporting the might of Sheffield United (please don't laugh) so for me a visit to this mouth watering museum was in order.And while on holiday in Lancashire the chance arose and I ...  Read the complete review

During October half-term my girlfriend and I took a trip to the Football Museum at Preston to meet a friend we hadn’t seen for a while. When we got there, there were plenty of car parking spaces available. This was in the middle of the afternoon on a school holiday. I guess this is because they have to have enough parking there for the matches at Preston – so maybe an idea not to visit the museum on a matchday (although maybe you could use the viewing gallery as a sneaky way to watch the match!). Anyway, parking was free, as was entry to the museum – bonus! I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but I was pleasantly ...  Read the complete review

Based at the home of Preston North End FC in preston the museum is accessable from the M6 motorway and very easy to locate. The museum is split into two distinct sections. The "First Half" is an exhibtion based on an old style museum exploring the origins of the game, the experience of fans and brings together great football moments with significant events in a broader social history. The first Half Football is placed in it's social context by "The Big Picture", a wall of images that shows what was happening in the wider world from the present day back to the mid 19th century. You can see how the lives of fans and players ...  Read the complete review