National Football Museum news

VAC 2022 has announced the final line-up of 25 top attractions sector speakers set to appear at the conference on Thursday 13 October. Speakers at ... More

The winners of this year’s Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence have been announced, with shortlisted projects celebrated and recognised across the museums, galleries, heritage ... More

England's National Football Museum has announced two senior appointments, with Ian Penrose named non-executive chair and Tim Desmond taking over as CEO. Having worked in ... More

The UK government has announced plans to distribute £4m (US$4.9m, €4.6m) in funding to galleries and culture centres across Britain. Jointly funded through a partnership ... More

After plans were revealed at the end of last month to build a permanent home for World Rugby in the sport’s birthplace, Manchester-based design firm ... More

Plans for a national museum dedicated to rugby league could come to the UK as early as 2020, with a feasibility study now commissioned to ... More

With Britain’s government having set a date for the referendum on whether the country should leave the European Union (EU), leading experts have warned UK ... More

The National Football Museum (NFM) has announced plans for a major exhibition recognising the 50th anniversary of England’s victory in the 1966 World Cup. Funded ... More

Manchester’s National Football Museum, Titanic Belfast and the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth are among this year’s nominees for European Museum of the Year. Whittled ... More

One Direction star Louis Tomlinson has announced a deal to buy English League One side Doncaster Rovers – the club he has supported since childhood. ... More

An aerial display from Messagemaker provides a dramatic backdrop at the National Football Museum, newly relocated in central Manchester, UK. Stretching over 30 metres in ... More

The National Football Museum has announced it will invest in its original site in Preston, Lancashire, UK, which closed its doors to the public in ... More

Image: Former England star John Barnes at the museum The National Football Museum in Manchester has attracted 100,000 visitors in the first six weeks since ... More

Image: The NFM includes FootballPlus experiences The National Football Museum (NFM) - an attraction exploring Britain's cultural heritage through football - has opened at its ... More

The National Football Museum (NFM) has revealed that it will open at its new Manchester home on 6 July, following the attraction's relocation from Preston's ... More

Cheshire-based Mather and Co has announced that it has been awarded the design contract for the new National Football Museum, which is relocating from Preston ... More

A number of leisure schemes across North West England have been dealt a blow after the regional development agency's budget was reduced by £52m by ... More

Efforts to retain the National Football Museum's (NFM) public galleries in Preston, Lancashire, have failed after trustees were unable to reach agreement with the local ... More

Our Sporting Life - a nationwide programme of 100 events designed to explore the UK's sporting heritage - has launched with the unveiling of a ... More

The National Football Museum has announced plans to open at Manchester's Urbis centre in 2011 after trustees of the attraction resolved to enter into a ... More

Manchester City Council (MCC) has confirmed that it is in discussions with trustees of the National Football Museum over the possibility of relocating the attraction ... More