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How to visit and what to see at Legends, football museum in Madrid

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

El Legends Museum settles in the heart of the capital of Spain to review the more than one hundred years of football history.

Past, present and future of football They come together in a space cared for to the maximum to enjoy the sport that is most practiced and played in the world.

An essential place for football lovers where you will find hundreds of historical t-shirts that will never cease to surprise you.

Football mythomaniacs have in mind Madrid his temple, although Legends Museum It's not just for fans "King sport".

Throughout the four floors you can tour the football history through unique objects and with the best collection of historical t-shirts in the world.

You also enjoy immersive experiences that recreate unforgettable episodes for anyone.

In addition, in his shop You can buy replicas of elastic bands that have marked an era in this sport and on its terrace you can enjoy good views of the center of Madrid while you have dinner or a drink.

Where is the Legends Museum in Madrid

The museum, sponsored by the Professional Soccer League and FIFA, it is located in the heart of Madrid, on one side of the recently renovated Puerta del Sol, specifically in number 2 of the San Jerónimo Race.

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

The architects of the project have maintained the original façade of the old cape and hat store, from where you enter a lobby that allows access to the store or the ticket offices.

How long does the visit to the Legends Museum last?

La visit to the Legends Museum has a duration of about two hours.

The best things to see when visiting the Legends Museum

As soon as you pass the control turnstiles you enter a room where, through a panoramic video it is explained what are you going to see along the route and football history with its main milestones.

The museum is divided into different rooms distributed along the four floors more the panoramic roof terrace.

This is usually used for sports-related events.

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

From emblematic stadiums to Iniesta's goal

La first floor is dedicated to showing with images the most emblematic stadiums in the world with the indispensable and necessary shouts and chants most characteristic of their fans.

As the video is projected on the three walls of the room, it offers you the possibility of feeling on the same grass as each of them.

The next room is dedicated to showing the history of the euro with the exhibition of authentic jackets, like the rest of those exhibited, of players who have participated in the finals or the most decisive matches of this competition.

The following space remembers the different champions of the Spanish League throughout its history since its beginnings; there is room to display real t-shirts from the 30s and 40s, in addition to balls that were played with in the first championships in our country.

Next comes a time for excitement.

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

It is time to relive an unforgettable experience, the South Africa World Cup final where Spain was proclaimed champion.

A space in which it is continually repeated, on a giant screen, the play and the goal Andres Iniesta He scored against Holland.

On each side of the images are exposed the T-shirts that Iker Casillas and the scorer of the goal were wearing that day.

Historic goals with virtual reality

On the second floor is one of the main dishes of the Legends Museum.

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

This is the 4D cinema room where a journey is recreated through all the venues and world championships since 1930.

Una virtual reality experience that takes you to all the countries where a World Cup being able to live historical moments from within.

From Maracanazo of 1950 in which Uruguay defeated Brazil, the Pelé's goals that served as revenge for the selection “canarinha”, or the Maradona's historic play in the Azteca stadium in Mexico.

Subjective recreation allows you to be the author of the “goal of the century”.

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

From the European Cup to the Champions League

In another of the rooms on the second floor there is a chronological tour of the late ancient European Cup and his successor, la Champions League.

As if they were reflections of the great matches, the shirts of the teams appear in the display cases. main historical duels between teams from the old continent.

You can contemplate those of Cruyff, Messi, Ronaldinho, Van basten, Ronaldo Nazario: Cristiano Ronaldo.

All of them, perfectly placed and illuminated, the clothing of the players who have raised “the orejona” or who have participated in any of its editions.

Leagues and Competitions of the world

In addition, a space has been reserved to pay tribute to other European competitions throughout history; the European Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Cup, and the most recent Europa League or the European Super Cup.

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

In this section there are memories for Benfica, Sporting de Portugal, Sevilla, PSV, Roma, Chelsea, or Atlético de Madrid.

There is also room for other major championships from other continents, such as the Copa Libertadores or the national soccer leagues of Argentina, Brazil or the United States.

This section is accompanied by t-shirts from River, Boca, Flamengo, Corinthians, Santos, Peñarol de Montevideo, Pelé's Cosmos or David Beckham's Los Angeles Galaxy.

You can also see relics from the history of football in the Olympics; from Uruguay's original jacket from the 1924 Paris Games, the one she wore in the 1928 Amsterdam Games, to the last one from Cameroon, champion in Sydney in 2000, or that of Argentina from the 2004 game in Athens.

Without forgetting those worn by the Spanish team in the Olympic Games '92 in Barcelona.

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

All of them accompanied by videos that remember some of those meetings.

Great soccer players in history

The third floor is dedicated to the great players in history of the King sport that stood out in the different World Cups held.

While images and sound of each of the world championships are shown, it is possible to contemplate balls y original soccer boots and its transformation over the years.

At your side t-shirts Oh Rey in the World Cup in Mexico in '70, that of Maradona in '86, that of Messi in the last one in Qatar, passing through those of Mbappe in Russia, and that of Kempes in '78 in Argentina.

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And in the middle of all of them, special time for the 1950 final in Maracaná, to relive that victory for Uruguay and that defeat for Brazil dressed in white, which would be the last occasion in which the five-time champions used this color in their history.

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

Great jewels of world football in the Legends Museum

The top floor is dedicated to what the museum's creator calls The Crown Jewels.

Before, in a projection room, the greatest collector in the world is going to tell us some of the unknown anecdotes in the history of football.

Why Argentina played with a holey shirt in the World Cup in Mexico, or why Spain only wore the national shield on theirs in the '78 Argentine Championship.

As a culmination, and giving meaning to the name of the room, those their and, above all, those Tshirts that are still more special than those contemplated along the route.

There is the one that Di Stefano wore in the 1960 European Cup final, Garrincha's in the 1958 World Cup, the one Maradona wore in the '86 World Cup final, Zidane's in the 1984 Euro Cup, that of Van Basten in the 1988 Euro Cup or finally the one that Messi wore in the final of the World Cup in Qatar.

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

The visit ends at official legends store, which you can also visit without entering the museum, a space where you can buy historical t-shirts, or customize them to your liking.

Legends Museum visit schedules

The Legends Museum visiting hours They are, Monday to Friday, from 12 a.m. to 14,30 p.m. and from 15:20,30 p.m. to XNUMX p.m.

On Saturdays and Sundays the morning hours are from 10 a.m. to 14,30:XNUMX p.m.

Legends Museum in Madrid
Legends Museum in Madrid

Legends Museum ticket prices

The ticket prices during the opening promotion they are 19,20 euros, the general price; 18 euros, reduced for seniors +65, Youth Card, large families and people with disabilities; and 15,20 euros, children from 3 to 15 years old.

Here you can consult the updated ticket prices, as well as buy them online.

Map: where it is and how to get to the Legends Museum

El Legends Museum is in the St. Jerome's Race 2, next to Puerta del Sol in Madrid, where you can arrive on several lines Metro.

About the Author

Patricia Gijon

A journalist with her entire professional life in Informativos de Onda Cero, Patricia collaborates in Guías Viajar with articles about cultural and leisure events that take place in Madrid and other places in Spain

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