With hundreds of items to browse and discover, enjoy the incredible insight on offer while you can
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If only all educational outings had been this cool at school. Forget your Roman ruins trip or that infamous excursion to Longstanton Spice Museum – finally, there's a historical experience we can all truly get behind.
Running until August 29 in Kensington, London, the Design Museum's Football: Designing the Beautiful Game is the first major exhibition that explores how design has pushed the sport to new limits.
With over 500 objects, films and interviews to gorge on, you'll be treated to a smorgasbord of footballing delights: not least an enviable collection of stone-cold classic shirts (including the first women's jersey from 1895) and key artefacts that help tell the stories of legends like Maradona, Pele, Messi and Best.
You'll also find some fascinating insight into stadium design from around Planet Football, and take a tour through some of the game's incredible innovation through the ages.
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Produced in partnership with the National Football Museum in Manchester, Football: Designing the Beautiful Game takes you beyond the pitch for an unrivalled look back at the things that matter to us: how our team's badges, kits and posters have shaped identities, for example, and how grassroots initiatives are pushing back against commercialisation.
Don't miss it: you'll gain rare insight into the people and processes that have made football what it is today.
Online booking in advance is essential. Adult tickets start from £16.80; student tickets from £12.50, and family tickets from £27. Other concession tickets are available.
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For more information, visit the Design Museum, then follow them on Twitter and Instagram @designmuseum
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Joe was the Deputy Editor at FourFourTwo until 2022, having risen through the FFT academy and been on the brand since 2013 in various capacities.
By weekend and frustrating midweek night he is a Leicester City fan, and in 2020 co-wrote the autobiography of former Foxes winger Matt Piper – subsequently listed for both the Telegraph and William Hill Sports Book of the Year awards.
