Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, Tennis heritage museum at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London Borough of Merton, United Kingdom.
The Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum is a tennis museum located within the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in the London Borough of Merton. It holds a large collection of rackets, trophies, photographs, and documents tracing over a century of the sport.
The tournament held at the All England Club first took place in 1877, making it one of the oldest surviving tennis events in the world. The museum opened exactly 100 years later, in 1977, to document that long history.
The museum shows how tennis evolved from a Victorian hobby into a global sport through objects and memories of famous players. Visitors can see how the sport and its meaning changed over the decades.
The museum is open year-round, though opening hours change depending on the season. During the annual summer tournament, access for museum-only visitors may be limited, so checking ahead before your visit is a good idea.
The museum offers a behind-the-scenes tour that takes visitors inside Centre Court, where they can sit in the stands. This is one of the very few ways to step onto that court without holding a tournament ticket.
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