The Museum of Nottingham Forest

[congo_red_49]

Forest unveil new Museum and Stadium Tours programme

The Official Website of Nottingham Forest Football Club: get the latest news, highlights, fixtures and results, tickets and more.

www.nottinghamforest.co.uk

Nottingham Forest are putting the finishing touches to a brand new museum at The City Ground, set to open on Saturday 30th March, showcasing the club’s rich history and celebrated achievements.

A new Stadium Tours experience, culminating in a visit to the museum, rounds off the second phase of the Club’s plans to transform the fan experience for the club’s loyal supporters and engage further with the local community.

The state-of-the-art museum space situated in the stadium’s Trent End will be a celebration of the club’s illustrious 158-year history, housing some of the most treasured silverware and memorabilia charting Forest’s incredible journey through the decades.

Museum highlights will include the famous picture depicting legendary club owners, the Al-Hasawis alongside former manager Brian Clough, Kenny Burns' jockstrap, Billy Davies' video editing machine, A selection of cheese left behind by Phillipe Montannier, Nathan Tyson's hamstring, a giant screen showing Psycho's challenge on Ted McMinn on an endless loop, Gary Crosby's bucket hat, a stray coffee cup that provided an assist for a goal past Barry Roche, the bucket Joe Kinnear was going to drink Guiness out of and Harry Arter.

Guided stadium tours, complementing the museum experience, will take fans behind the scenes of The City Ground. From the dressing rooms, players’ tunnel and dugouts to the owner’s private kitchens and manager’s press conference room, visitors will gain a unique perspective of the famous stadium that has witnessed decades of football history, providing an immersive experience for supporters of all ages.

The Stadium Tours programme will also feature exclusive Legends Tours, guided by some of the club’s most celebrated players through the ages, including club ambassador and zero-time European Cup winner, Djamel Abdoun.

Please note: Due to an ongoing dispute about a length of pipe, there is not expected to be any running water on opening night, or any time soon.

Spoiler: Disclaimer

Some details may have been edited for my own amusement.

 

[Tricky Tourist]

What a treat Congo Red's version sounds like. Count me in for a visit.

 

[SouthManchesterTree]

To be fair, it looks quite good to me. It’s the sort of thing that should have been done years ago.

 

[DanR]

It feels like a missed opportunity to have a giant screen showing Psycho's challenge on Ted McMinn on an endless loop. Perhaps I will mention that on my visitor feedback.

 

[congo_red_49]

It feels like a missed opportunity to have a giant screen showing Psycho's challenge on Ted McMinn on an endless loop. Perhaps I will mention that on my visitor feedback.

We're adding more exhibits all the time - including this one.

 

[DanR]

We're adding more exhibits all the time - including this one.

We're serious about adding more exhibits, are you?

 

[Strummer]

This is going to end up like that hapless Willy Wonka experience in Scotland recently, isn‘t it?

 

[Alf-engelos Mindminackers]

@Bonfy177 you donating any artwork to it mate?

 

[Bob Fossil]

I can just imagine the delight on my kid's faces when I inform them that we'll be having a day out at this bad boy.

 

[Bonfy177]

@Bonfy177 you donating any artwork to it mate?

If the money is reet I’ll knock summat together

 

[IvorThirst]

Wonder if the tour will include the den of incompetence that is the Finance Dept

 

[IvorThirst]

I have heard one of the new Tour Guides is Harry Arter

 

[DanR]

Wonder if the tour will include the den of incompetence that is the Finance Dept

I think there is a framed artist's impression of the moment the Finance Director informed the Board, quote (but not accurately), 'not to piss any more money up the wall on that Newcastle shite', while the Board pretended to listen but were in fact studying the takeaway menu from the cob shop on Pavilion Road.

 

[congo_red_49]

I have heard one of the new Tour Guides is Harry Arter

Close, he’s actually an exhibit. We offered him a role as a guide but he thought it sounded too much like effort.

 

[congo_red_49]

If the money is reet I’ll knock summat together

Unfortunately, due to sustainability concerns, we can only take new pieces on loan with an option to purchase in 2028.

 

[Otis Redding]

This initiative isn't before time. We have an illustrious history that should be acknowledged and credit to EM for doing so, in contrast to an earlier ownership whereby our past achievements were treated almost as an embarrassment.
During that period under ND, I felt a huge sense of pride on seeing our pennant on display in the Barcelona museum, and a sense of anger and shame that our Euro Stars had been shoved onto the sleeve of our shirt as a barely-visible after-thought by our powers-that-were.

 

[Bonfy177]

Unfortunately, due to sustainability concerns, we can only take new pieces on loan with an option to purchase in 2028.

But at vastly inflated prices I’m presuming

 

[congo_red_49]

But at vastly inflated prices I’m presuming

Of course. But it’s reliant on us getting a million pound offer for the star exhibit (the coffee cup)

 

[DanR]

But at vastly inflated prices I’m presuming

Vastly inflated prices but with a payment scheme which even Fawaz would think was unhurried.

 

[Alf-engelos Mindminackers]

I've heard there's gonna be a framed copy of Dougie's List there

 

[Alf-engelos Mindminackers]

Wonder if the tour will include the den of incompetence that is the Finance Dept

 

[Ian Moore Gone Little]

Forest unveil new Museum and Stadium Tours programme

The Official Website of Nottingham Forest Football Club: get the latest news, highlights, fixtures and results, tickets and more.

www.nottinghamforest.co.uk

Nottingham Forest are putting the finishing touches to a brand new museum at The City Ground, set to open on Saturday 30th March, showcasing the club’s rich history and celebrated achievements.

A new Stadium Tours experience, culminating in a visit to the museum, rounds off the second phase of the Club’s plans to transform the fan experience for the club’s loyal supporters and engage further with the local community.

The state-of-the-art museum space situated in the stadium’s Trent End will be a celebration of the club’s illustrious 158-year history, housing some of the most treasured silverware and memorabilia charting Forest’s incredible journey through the decades.

Museum highlights will include the famous picture depicting legendary club owners, the Al-Hasawis alongside former manager Brian Clough, Kenny Burns' jockstrap, Billy Davies' video editing machine, A selection of cheese left behind by Phillipe Montannier, Nathan Tyson's hamstring, a giant screen showing Psycho's challenge on Ted McMinn on an endless loop, Gary Crosby's bucket hat, a stray coffee cup that provided an assist for a goal past Barry Roche, the bucket Joe Kinnear was going to drink Guiness out of and Harry Arter.

Guided stadium tours, complementing the museum experience, will take fans behind the scenes of The City Ground. From the dressing rooms, players’ tunnel and dugouts to the owner’s private kitchens and manager’s press conference room, visitors will gain a unique perspective of the famous stadium that has witnessed decades of football history, providing an immersive experience for supporters of all ages.

The Stadium Tours programme will also feature exclusive Legends Tours, guided by some of the club’s most celebrated players through the ages, including club ambassador and zero-time European Cup winner, Djamel Abdoun.

Please note: Due to an ongoing dispute about a length of pipe, there is not expected to be any running water on opening night, or any time soon.

Spoiler: Disclaimer

Some details may have been edited for my own amusement.

Funnily enough, I’d been considering starting a thread on what we all wanted to see in the museum, thinking it was going to be part of the Taylor Stand and Trent End corner etc development and therefore that in all probability we’d have a year or three to get our views across (seeing as it’s been confirmed in other threads that people at Forest do look at this forum from time to time). I hadn’t started one partly because I hadn’t got round to it and partly because I knew very well the sort of suggestions it would attract.

And now here it is, all ready and waiting for us to visit it. So I’ll hold fire on what should go in it for now and instead what I’m curious to know (and anyone who visits it or otherwise knows the answers please enlighten us) is:

- Were fans (the various supporters’ groups, Don the historian, etc) involved or at least consulted?
- Is this a permanent museum or a stop-gap until something else is developed if/when the Taylor Stand work finally happens?
- Does it look like it’s been put together by people who know and care for the club or like a rugby-loving design consultant in London planned it on the back of a beermat in his lunchtime?
- Does it give proper weight to the whole of our history - the founders, the pioneers in numerous developments as the game grew in the late 19th century, the numerous ‘firsts’ throughout our history, the 98 and 59 FA Cup winners and the 67 Double-chasers (you knew I’d put them in, didn’t you…?), and so on?
- Does/will it include a Forest Hall of Fame (something a lot of clubs with a lot less history than we have seem to have)?
- In short, does it do us justice or is it a missed opportunity?

 

[GOBIAS]

It is long overdue. Unfortunately it is sold out. I just want to take my daughter on a stadium tour really, it’s ridiculous it hasn’t been available to do for years. I remember going on a junior reds one probably late 80’s early 90’s. The colwick rd end was still there.

 

[Strummer]

I think there is a framed artist's impression of the moment the Finance Director informed the Board, quote (but not accurately), 'not to piss any more money up the wall on that Newcastle shite', while the Board pretended to listen but were in fact studying the takeaway menu from the cob shop on Pavilion Road.

In truth, you could not blame them; I used to regularly start Forest matches with a pork and stuffing cob, with apple sauce, from that very cob shop.

 

[Ian Moore Gone Little]

Funnily enough, I’d been considering starting a thread on what we all wanted to see in the museum, thinking it was going to be part of the Taylor Stand and Trent End corner etc development and therefore that in all probability we’d have a year or three to get our views across (seeing as it’s been confirmed in other threads that people at Forest do look at this forum from time to time). I hadn’t started one partly because I hadn’t got round to it and partly because I knew very well the sort of suggestions it would attract.

And now here it is, all ready and waiting for us to visit it. So I’ll hold fire on what should go in it for now and instead what I’m curious to know (and anyone who visits it or otherwise knows the answers please enlighten us) is:

- Were fans (the various supporters’ groups, Don the historian, etc) involved or at least consulted?
- Is this a permanent museum or a stop-gap until something else is developed if/when the Taylor Stand work finally happens?
- Does it look like it’s been put together by people who know and care for the club or like a rugby-loving design consultant in London planned it on the back of a beermat in his lunchtime?
- Does it give proper weight to the whole of our history - the founders, the pioneers in numerous developments as the game grew in the late 19th century, the numerous ‘firsts’ throughout our history, the 98 and 59 FA Cup winners and the 67 Double-chasers (you knew I’d put them in, didn’t you…?), and so on?
- Does/will it include a Forest Hall of Fame (something a lot of clubs with a lot less history than we have seem to have)?
- In short, does it do us justice or is it a missed opportunity?

And now I’ve read the details via the email I received I’m also curious as to why they advertise free parking in the main/Taylor car park but have directions sending people over Lady Bay Bridge from Radcliffe Road. Those who haven’t been to the WFCG before might find themselves outside The Meadow Lane Stadium Complex ((c) my very ironic County-supporting friend Andrew from my teenage years) thinking “Well it doesn’t look much like the pictures”…