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 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
- 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
- The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is the official archive for Northern Ireland. PRONI has in its custody a wide variety of material relating to sport and recreation, ranging from popular sports such as football and rugby, to more obscure activities such as ploughing and water-skiing.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
- Our Photographic Collection boasts some of the finest examples of early golf photography as well as some of the most highly regarded golf photography from the late 20th century in the Lawrence Levy Collection.Find out more
- An unofficial archive of Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena memorabilia 1921 to date.Find out more
- The World Rugby Museum contains the world’s largest collection of rugby football and pre-code football artefacts. The objects come from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries and are derived from all rugby-playing nations.Find out more