The FIFA Museum is an

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museum operated by FIFA. The museum is located in

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, Switzerland, across town from the

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. It opened on 28 February 2016. The project, costing over SFr500 million ($563m), is currently under investigation for "suspected criminal mismanagement".

Exhibits and amenities

The museum occupies the lower three floors of the renovated Haus zur Enge, a ten-story

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building located in the Enge quarter, across from the Zürich Enge railway station and the FIFA-owned Hotel Ascot. The building also contains a

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, a

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, a

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, a library, a museum shop and conference rooms; the upper floors have office spaces and 34 luxury apartments. The museum exhibits over one thousand objects. These include memorabilia from every

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and FIFA Women's World Cup, the most famous one being the original

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. The exhibition features various interactive and multimedia installations such as the biggest pinball machine ever made and an audiovisual media installation called ''Visions of Football'' using LED screens. In 2017, the museum was nominated for the

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. Every year, the museum participates in Zürich's

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History

Plans for a museum dedicated to the 'history of world football' to be located in Zürich were proposed by then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter and the

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in 2012. In April 2013, FIFA signed a 40-year lease with Swiss Life for the Haus zur Enge, which would be dismantled and rebuilt to house the museum; an earlier proposal would have had a museum on the grounds of the FIFA headquarters. The City of Zürich Building Authority approved planning permission for the museum in November 2013. Construction on the renovated Haus zur Enge began in 2014 and was completed in December 2015. The museum opened on 28 February 2016, during a ceremony presided by the newly elected president of FIFA,

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. On 22 December 2020, FIFA launched legal action against its former president Sepp Blatter for "suspected criminal mismanagement". Despite costing over SFr500 million ($563m), the museum made only $3m of Fifa's $766m 2019 overall revenues.

References

External links

Official website
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