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Tennis museum in Paris, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Tenniseum, also known as the Musée du Tennis or the Musée de Roland-Garros, is a tennis museum located in the Stade Roland Garros in the 16th arrondissement at 2, avenue Gordon-Bennett, Paris, France.[1]
History
The museum was created in 2003 by the Fédération Française de Tennis (French Federation of Tennis), and architect Bruno Moinard,[2] and was originally named the Musée Federation Française de Tennis. The museum was inaugurated in 2003 by chairman of the federation, Christian Bîmes.[3] Later, the museum was renamed the Tenniseum after refurbishments of the Roland Garros Stadium during 2016, that caused the museum to close for a period of 8 years.[4] It reopened with an inauguration on 23 May 2024, alongside the draw for the 2024 French Open, with Richard Gasquet present at the event.[1]
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Collection
The museum is located in the building which was previously the gardener's cottage at Roland Garros.[3] The new venue created there contains about 1000 m2 of exhibition space, a 358 seat auditorium, an immersive multimedia cinema, and a gift shop.[5] Its permanent collection is primarily multimedia (video displays), with 4000 hours of audio-visual collections, and photographs; it also contains roughly a hundred tennis racquets dating from 1920 to the present. The museum's library contains over 3000 documents dating back as far as 1550.[3]
The museum also offers tours of exclusive areas of the stadium, such as the locker rooms, and centre court.[3]
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