Collections

The National Sports Museum Online is a listing of sports-related collections held by museums, archives and clubs around the country. Here you can browse through all the organisations who have supplied details of their collections.

Latest collections
  • Gloucester Rugby Heritage

    Gloucester Rugby Heritage

    The Gloucester Rugby Digital Archive is a collection of memories, mementoes, reminiscences and records. Bringing Gloucester's unique rugby heritage to life, it aims to capture, preserve, celebrate and share over 130 years of history.
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  • Leicestershire County Cricket Club Museum

    Leicestershire County Cricket Club Museum

    The exhibition has been built around the County Club’s extensive collection of cricket memorabilia relevant to the development of cricket in Leicestershire and Rutland.
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  • Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

    Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

    Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre holds a great number of sport related archives, of which a small sample are exhbited.
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  • University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives

    University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives

    The University Archives contain records of sports clubs and teams such as the University of Liverpool's Athletics Club (Athletic Union) and also the records of the British Universities Sports Association (BUSA). The Children's Book collections contain nearly 700 19th-20th century volumes on the history of physical education, gymnastics and other sports from Archery to Yachting. Many are illustrated with contemporary photographs.
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  • National Athletics Archive, University of Birmingham

    National Athletics Archive, University of Birmingham

    The the Cadbury Research Library has a number of records and archives relating to sporting achievement through the years. The collection includes original photographs and collections, part of an extensive Sports and Athletics Collections held at the University of Birmingham.
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  • Sporting Legends Experience

    Sporting Legends Experience

    Authenticated by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest autographed collection of Sporting Memorabilia. View Russ Martin Memorabilia Man on facebook.
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  • Victoria Baths History Archive, Manchester

    Victoria Baths History Archive, Manchester

    The Victoria Baths Archive represents the rich social and sporting history of Victoria Baths, the Baths and Wash-houses of Manchester, and the history of swimming and Turkish Baths in general. It contains pictures, documents, objects, audio, video and memories.
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  • National Cycle Archive

    National Cycle Archive

    The primary aim of the National Cycle Archive is the preservation of documents relating to cycles and cycling. It consists of many separate collections of books, journals and archives deposited or donated by cycling bodies and individuals, and provides a wealth of information about the development of cycling, for sport and leisure, from the 19th century onwards.
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  • The Yorkshire County Cricket Club Official Museum

    The Yorkshire County Cricket Club Official Museum

    The Yorkshire Cricket Museum is located in the East Stand at Headingley Cricket Ground. The museum opened in 2011 and is a ‘must see’ for every Yorkshire Cricket fan. The museum is open on every domestic match day during the season.
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