Horseracing Museum

This award-winning museum tells the story of racing through its permanent collections. These feature the horses, people, events and scandals that have made horseracing so colourful.


Highlights include the head of Persimmon and the skeleton of Eclipse, ancestor of 90% of modern day thoroughbreds. There's a special display about Fred Archer; items associated with Red Rum, Lester Piggott, Frankie Dettori and other heroes of the turf.

Open daily - March 1 to October 31, inc. Bank Holidays, 11.00am - 4.30pm.

Admission

   Adults £6.00, Children £3.00

   Concessions £5.00
   Family Ticket (2 Adults, 2 Children) £13.00
   10% discount on groups over 20

Exhibitions for 2010

   Thoroughbred - State of the Art

   From early portraits to the splendour of Stubbs and the vibrant

   imagery of Munnings, this exhibition demonstrates the irresistible

   appeal of the thoroughbred to generations of artists.

   British Sporting Art

   The British Sporting Art Trust brings together a collection of sporting

   art for public exhibition and promotion of interest in the subject.

   Among the highlights - boxing, fishing, rugby, hunting and horseracing.

The museum is also offering new tours for the 2010 season. For more information about these, its galleries and the exhibitions go to:

www.nhrm.co.uk

The National Horseracing Museum
99 High Street, Newmarket, Suffolk, UK. CB8 8JL

Phone+44 (0) 1638 667333