The Sporting Museum is the museum institution dedicated to the preservation, study, and dissemination of the history and heritage of Sporting Clube de Portugal. Through its tangible and intangible collection, it bears witness to the memory, values, and global dimension of the Club, promoting sport as a cultural, social, and identity phenomenon.
Inaugurated in 2004, the Sporting Museum is a thematic museum focused on safeguarding and communicating the historical and sporting heritage of Sporting CP. Its collection includes trophies, historical objects, documentation, biographical testimonies, and intangible heritage associated with the various sports and protagonists of the club, incorporated over decades.
As a museum structure integrated into a century-old sports institution, the Sporting Museum develops research, conservation, documentation, exhibition, educational action, and cultural mediation functions, in accordance with the principles of contemporary museology and the ICOM Code of Ethics. It presents itself as a space for memory, identity and critical reflection, open to the community, valuing heritage education, inclusion, accessibility and the use of new technologies as instruments of dialogue with society.
The Sporting Museum is part of the RPM - Portuguese Museum Network, and is also a member of ICOM - International Council of Museums, and APOM – Portuguese Association of Museology.
Documentation Center
The role of the Documentation Center is to store, organize, inventory, and make available its documentary collection, composed of periodicals, most notably the Sporting Journal; magazines; monographs; and various documents, such as membership cards and game tickets. Through the continuous work of the Documentation Center, the aim is to deepen knowledge about sports practice and its importance to society.
Educational Service
The Sporting Museum's educational service aims to build a museum that is an open space for everyone, working with and for the diverse audiences it welcomes. Its mission is to share the history and identity of the club, as well as ensure that all Sporting supporters feel represented in this space.
The museum intends to offer its audience informative visits that help explore the current Sporting CP and its history. In this sense, it is important to recognize that the audiences the museum welcomes have different demands and needs during their visits, making it important to find strategies in the realm of non-formal education so that visitors can enjoy the experience through playful and educational strategies.
Conservation and Restoration
The Conservation and Restoration area's mission is to enhance and preserve the Sporting CP collection. It is responsible for the inventory of the three-dimensional collection, the application of conservation practices and restoration interventions, and the management of the assets that make up the collection in the museum and storage areas.
Photographic Documentation
The photographic documentation area is responsible for the digital reproduction of the entire Sporting Museum collection, a fundamental and highly rigorous process for safeguarding the Club's heritage. In addition, it manages and conserves the physical and digital photographic and audiovisual collections that tell the story of Sporting CP in images, and which comprise its Photographic Archive. It also carries out the documentary recording of all the Museum's activities, from internal work to educational service activities and exhibition changes.
Memory Center
The Memory Center is the Museum's service responsible for recording and preserving the Intangible Heritage of Sporting CP. Through audiovisual testimonies, later integrated into the Museum's archive, memories are collected that tell the story of the Club in multiple voices.
This work extends to Sporting TV, with the program "The Museum Tells," which presents micro-stories narrated in the first person, by anonymous individuals and champions, based on people, objects, and memories, contributing to the preservation and dissemination of the Club's heritage and collective memory.
