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
- The Highland Folk Museum is located in Badenoch in the central Highlands of Scotland. The area is a stronghold for the ancient indigenous Scottish sport of shinty (known as 'camanachd' in Gaelic), with the museum standing roughly equidistant between the nearby grounds of the sport's two most famous and successful clubs: Kingussie and Newtonmore.Find 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
- 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