National Sport Museum

• National Sports Museum. Nice has the world's largest sport-themed collection, with more than 100,000 items, objects and documents of 600 years of sporting history
•  It has been built to preserve and enrich and pass on French sporting heritage
•  The museum is the key part of the Allianz Riviera stadium  extending over a large area of more than 5,800m
•  Here you can go down the memory lanes of many sports luminaries
•  Some of the must-see attractions are the racket of Yannick Noah, the French tennis player who won Roland Garros French International in 1983, victory soccer ball of the Bleus at the World Cup in 1998 and the gloves of one of France's biggest boxers of all time, Marcel Cerdan and the Olympic relay torches since 1936
•  More than 45,000 objects and 125,000 documents  narrate the  history of French sports since the sixteenth century 
• The permanent exhibits, museum's documents, and objects highlight  the diversities
•   Wonderful projections in the auditorium with shows and workshops that don the array of activities in this first museum in France dedicated to sports

By Bus:

There is a special service, route number 95, that runs from Hospital St Roch, along Rue de Hotel des Postes, Rue de Buffa, to the stadium. It costs 1.50 Euros each and the buses run every 5 to 7 minutes.

Look out for the yellow bus No.95. The return journey is free, provided you have bought the outbound ticket. Make sure that you exit the stadium at "Acces Sud"

The number 95 buses will be lined up and there will be plenty of them

 However, the first load of buses is jam-packed A waiting period of 15 to 20 minutes before and after the game is normal. On the return, the bus goes along Promenade Des Anglais, Avenue de Californie and Rue de Buffa, parallel to the onward route and which goes back towards the Acropolis near the start of the outward journey at Hospital St Roch.

• If you are a sports lover, definitely you can't miss the trip to Musée National du Sport
•  Here you can relive the finest sporting exploits that have left their indelible mark on the generations
•  Relive feel the emotions and efforts of yesteryear players, share the finest moments of victory with the permanent exhibition "Relevez le défi!"
•  Sports memorabilia offers interactive fun for children and adults alike
•  Must explore the permanent and temporary exhibitions. It is better to hire a guide

 October to March       

Sunday:                               11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Monday:                              Closed

Tuesday:                             11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Wednesday:                        11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Thursday:                            11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Friday:                                 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Saturday:                             11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

May To September  

Sunday:                             10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Monday:                             10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Tuesday:                            10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday:                       10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Thursday:                           10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Friday:                                10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Saturday:                            10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.