Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
⭐ Highligts
Centre Court Stop
The sport’s most mythic stageFrom the royal box to the grass weave, every camera angle is engineered—and you can feel the acoustic hush.
📍 Included on most guided tours
Kit & Fashion Through Time
How clothing reshaped playCorsets to stretch fabrics: movement drove design, and design changed the game.
📍 Main galleries
Tech of the Championships
From chalk dust to Hawk-EyeTV demanded yellow balls; line calls went digital; roofs made rain a scheduling problem, not a finale.
📍 AV & broadcast displays
Trophies & Traditions
Symbols that travel the worldSilver gilt plates, strawberries and cream, purple and green—all parts of the brand that players enter and borrow.
📍 Trophy cases & ritual exhibits
Opening Hours
🤓 Fun Facts
Wimbledon switched from white to optic-yellow balls in 1986—made-for-TV visibility trumped tradition.
A Harris’s hawk named Rufus patrols the grounds to keep pigeons off the courts—he even has his own accreditation.
The famous Queue is run like an event in its own right, with numbered Queue Cards and etiquette that regulars treat as lore.
