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Lord's Cricket Ground & Museum

Address: St. John's Wood Rd., St. John's Wood, London, NW8 8QN | Map It
Phone: 020/7616-8595
www.lords.org

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Regent's Park and Hampstead

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Fodor's Review:

If you can't manage to lay your hands on tickets for a cricket match, the next best thing is to take a tour of the spiritual home of this most English of games. Founded by Thomas Lord, the headquarters of the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) opens its "behind the scenes" areas to visitors. You can see the Long Room with cricketing art on display; the players' dressing rooms; and the world's oldest sporting museum, where the progress from gentlemanly village-green game to world-class sport over 400 years is charted. Don't miss the prize exhibit: the urn containing the Ashes (reputedly the remains of a cricket ball presented to the English captain in 1883, a jokey allusion to a newspaper's premature obituary for the death of English cricket published after the home team's defeat by Australia), and even smaller, the poor sparrow that met its death by a bowled ball. More up to date is the eye-catching Media Centre building, which achieved high scores in the architectural league. The tour is not available during major matches (it's offered during smaller "county" matches), but the museum remains open to match ticket holders.

Cost: £14. Museum only, £5 nonmatch days, £3 match days
Open: Museum Apr.-Sept., daily 9:30-5, except during major matches; Oct.-Mar., daily 11-5 (closes at 4 Fri.). Tours Apr.-Oct., daily 10, noon, and 2; Nov.-Mar., 10 and noon
Tube: St. John's Wood

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