Collections
Here you can see our listing of sporting-related collections held by museums, archives and clubs around the country. Explore the listing by sport and by location.
Featured collections
- The British American Football Association (BAFA) is the National Governing Body for the sport of American football in Great Britain.Find out more
- Dragon Boating is the mass participation paddle sport of today, with an ancient past and a very bright futureFind out more
- The Cardiff Rugby Museum is a collection of memories, mementos, reminiscences and records. Bringing Cardiff's unique rugby heritage to life, it aims to capture, preserve, celebrate and share over 142 years of history.Find out more
- The sporting heritage collection includes documents, booklets and a large archive of photographs of local teams, sporting individuals and sports & social clubs in workplaces over the years.Find out more
- Goalball dates back to 1946 – when it was devised as a simple rehabilitation/recreational exercise for blinded war veterans. Goalball UK are celebrating their 10 year anniversaryFind out more
- The museum holds a wide range of items relating to the sports and pastimes enjoyed by people in the Scottish Highlands between 1700 and the middle of the 20th century, including extensive collections for the ancient Scottish games of curling and shintyFind out more
- Head down memory lane to the Lakeland Motor Museum and feast your eyes on a unique collection of 30,000 exhibits including over 150 bicycles ranging from early examples to modern day classics.Find out more
- England Netball was 90 years old in 2016. This website celebrates the history of netball at all levels from its early beginnings to the present day. Here you can browse photographs, stories and memories about netball.Find out more
- Surrey History Centre holds a number of important sporting archives. We also have ancient records in Surrey History Centre including two of the earliest known references to cricket. Records and information relating to motor racing, golf, shooting, football, cycling in Surrey and many more can be found on our Exploring Surrey's Past website.Find out more
- Organisational records, photographs and artefacts from the history of Thames Rowing Club (founded 1860). Thames Rowing Club has occupied the same clubhouse, on Putney Embankment, since 1879 and a sizeable collection has survived.Find out more
- Online database/digital archive of the UK's sports statues, as well as the world's football statues, cricket statues and baseball statues. Over 1000 sports statues mapped and photographed.Find out more