Welcome to the Port Adelaide Football Club Museum. This museum was opened in July 2022 as part of the first stage of the redevelopment of the Alberton Oval precinct.
Here you’ll find approximately 300 items on display, though that only touches the surface of the 1500 memorabilia and historical items in the club’s collection, carefully looked after and curated by the Port Adelaide Football Club History Committee.
The museum includes a timeline of the club’s history, photos of every Premiership team, touch screens with detailed club information and a suite of Port Adelaide memorabilia to explore at your leisure.
There are ten stops on this self-guided tour, and you’ll be able to scan the QR code at each stop to hear narration from club greats. Or you can click ‘next stop’ at any time to proceed.
Please be respectful of your surroundings and use headphones if you’re able to.
Your tour has been designed to take you throughout the club’s incredible journey, from being formed in 1870 to provide a social outlet for young men in the district, to becoming a powerhouse of Australian football.
The Port Adelaide Football Club is the most successful league football club in Australia. It has won a record four Champions of Australia titles, a record 36 SANFL Premierships and an AFL Premiership.
The oldest professional football club in South Australia and a founding member of the South Australian Football Association in 1877, the club holds the unique title of being the only pre-existing non-Victorian suburban club to have entered the national AFL competition from a state-based competition.
As you look around you may notice the timber pylons that frame the museum and make up our trophy cabinet. They’re not structural, but add a real flavour of the Port to our museum. In fact, they are original wharf pylons removed from the Port river in the late 1880s and purchased by the club from a collector based at Melrose in the state’s Mid-North.
The wharf pylons from the Port River are said to be the inspiration for the club’s iconic black and white bars guernsey, worn since 1902. This guernsey remains a significant symbol of heritage and connection and continues to be worn each game in the SANFL and at least once per season in the AFL and AFLW competitions.
Poet Rupert McCall spoke of the wharf pylons in his poem “it is Port”, which was commissioned by the club in 2020 to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
Your next stop is our club timeline on the wall adjacent to the giant trophy cabinet.
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