Google: The Offside Museum | A museum of those brave enough to play

Offside Museum
During 1921 to 1979, women were legally banned from football in countries across the globe.

Many defied this oppression to valiantly play on, but were forced into a corner of secrecy, leaving this critical era never properly recorded. Until now.

The Football Museum, in partnership with Google, created the Offside Museum: a collaborative project that gathered stories and memories shared by the public about the women who dared to play football during the period of prohibition of the practice in Brazil between 1941 and 1979. The photographs and shared documents have been curated and will be preserved by the Museum, which has prepared six virtual exhibitions about the topic available through Google Arts & Culture.

More than about a sport, The Football Museum is, above all, a museum about the history of Brazilian people. A museum surrounded by the mysteries of the euphoria that we all have for the ball, the dribbling and the goal. A mystery that unifies and separates like all the collective passions, where the joys are always greater than the sorrows.

Credits
Client: Google
Agency: AKQA
Production Company: Iconoclast
Director: Rafaela Carvalho
Music: Antfood
Photographer: Livia Wu

This campaign is about:
Google Arts & Culture, Museu do Impedimento, FIFA Women’s World Cup, Offside Museum, The Football Museum