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.

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.

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 anniversary 

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.

Breaking (Media named: Break Dancing) dates back to the 1980s in the UK and the 1970s in America. It is a sport, dance and culture that was birthed in the most deprived areas of the Bronx in New York City. Our organisation predominantly archives the Breaking History for Merseyside, Cheshire and West Lancashire areas of the UK from the 1980s onwards.

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.

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.

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.