German Football Museum
museum in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (2015–)
The German Football Museum (German: Deutsches Fußballmuseum) a.k.a. DFB-Museum is the national museum for German football in Dortmund, Germany. It opened on 23 October 2015.
History
After the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, the German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund [ˈdɔʏtʃɐ ˈfuːsbalˌbʊnt]; DFB [ˌdeːʔɛfˈbeː]) decided to finance the establishment of a national German soccer museum. In May 2007, the DFB Presidium shortlisted the cities of Cologne, Oberhausen, Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund from the 14 cities that had applied as a location for the football museum, locating museum in the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia. At a Bundestag of the DFB on 24 April 2009, the delegates decided on a location close to the city center south of Dortmund's Central Station, which had been previously used as a bus station. The area is part of an art and culture mile between the Dortmund U creative center and the Theater Dortmund concert hall.
Architectural competition
The city of Dortmund, in cooperation with the DFB, announced an international architectural competition for the building. On 4 May 2011, the jury of the competition awarded three designs from the 24 submitted works. There was no unqualified winning design.
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