3 Amazing Museums Every Sports Fan Should Visit in Switzerland

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Zürich, Switzerland. Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash

Museums dedicated to sports are scattered all around Europe, and Switzerland is home to some of the very best. They pay homage to all sorts of different disciplines, ranging from soccer to basketball, and here are three that you shouldn’t miss for the world if you’re a sports fan.

FIFA Museum

Zürich is home to the FIFA headquarters, so it only makes sense for this city to host a museum that honors this football association. FIFA Museum is home to over a thousand objects from the history of the FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cup, including the original FIFA World Cup Trophy.

House Of Basketball

House Of Basketball is located in the tiny village of Mies, located close to Geneva, and it’s definitely worth the trip. It covers an 8,500 square meter plot of land overlooking Lake Geneva, but its main point of interest is a Naismith Arena, which serves as an exhibition space with over 40,000 objects representing basketball’s history and culture.

Olympic Museum

Lausanne is home to the largest museum dedicated to the Olympic Games in the entire world, with over 10,000 artifacts on its premises. It explores the history of the Olympics from its ancient origins in Greece to modern times, and it comes with an Olympics Park filled with countless sports-inspired sculptures.