Rapideum
‘Rapid is history – become part of it!’ This phrase is displayed on the walls of the SK Rapid’s players’ changing room, just a few steps away from the club’s museum. There, you will find a fascinating overview of the 127-year history of Austria’s most successful football club, with three guided tours taking place throughout the evening.
Across 165 square meters, a wide variety of memorabilia awaits your discovery. The exhibition spans the period from the founding of the Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club (‘First Viennese Workers' Football Club’) in 1897, through its renaming as Sportclub Rapid in 1899, right up to the present day. Alongside 31 classic display cases, four video stations, and two stadium models that are faithful to the original, there are 59 hidden drawers and boxes that invite you to delve into the club’s history. The motto ‘Together. Fight. Win.’ sets the thematic tone. The focus is not just on sporting successes, but also on the club’s origins in the workers’ movement at Schmelz and on the research into SK Rapid’s history during the Nazi era.
MUSEUM TOURS (AT 6.10 PM, AT 8 PM AND AT 10 PM)
This evening, three guided tours of the museum will provide a deeper insight into the club’s history. As a special extra, all guests on the guided tours will have the chance to take a look inside the darkened stadium afterwards. An opportunity available only as part of the ‘ORF Long Night of Museums’!
Duration: approx. 45 minutes each.
• 6.10 pm: The early years in Rudolfsheim and the rise to become the country’s largest and most popular football club
• 8.00 pm: The history of the Vienna derby
• 10.00 pm: Rapid in the European Cup (with a short reading from the European Cup book ‘Dein Name in Europa ist famos’)
KIDS' CORNER
For the youngest fans, a Kids’ Corner with a colouring station will be set up in the fan shop throughout the evening.