25 January 2016 Lest We Forget Special Exhibition We are pleased to announce that our special exhibition 'Lest We Forget: Rugby and the First World War' will be extended into 2016. Read More
25 January 2016 Lest We Forget Special Exhibition We are pleased to announce that our special exhibition 'Lest We Forget: Rugby and the First World War' will be extended into 2016. Read More
18 December 2015 BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year The BBC Sports Personality of the year award has been running since the mid-1950s. Originally devised by the British television executive Sir Paul Fox, the awards have evolved to honour not just individual talent from the UK but also team achievements, overseas personalities, coaches, junior sporting personalities and more. Read More
30 October 2015 Wallabies Waltz On In reaching the 2015 World Cup final, Australia will have competed in four of the first eight Rugby World Cup Finals. We have been looking back over some of the objects we have in our collection that help to tell a little of their history in the game. Rugby was introduced to Australia in 1864 at Sydney University. Read More
09 March 2015 World's oldest international rugby caps re-united When I was a young rugby player, fresh from school and with a whiff of cut grass in my nostrils and dreams of playing for my country in my mind, there was an old, beaten up rugby cap in our club cabinet. Glasgow Academicals was the name of my club and we were based in the leafy west end of Glasgow. Read More
05 February 2015 The 'Real' Triple Crown In 2006 a silver shield was produced as the physical embodiment of an idea that had existed since 1894. The Triple Crown was first made reference to by the Irish Times in 1894 after Ireland had defeated England, Wales and Scotland in a single season for the first time. Read More
20 January 2015 Stoddart sells the Natives short In February of 1889, during a test-match against the touring New Zealand Natives, England's AE Stoddart, whilst on the attack, lost a 'portion' of his shorts. As was the custom, Stoddart's team-mates formed a circle around him to protect his modesty whilst he collected himself. Read More
27 November 2014 Wallabies Feeling Blue The museum has recently acquired a New South Wales (NSW) jersey that was collected by Tom Smith of Leicester during the 1908 Anglo-Welsh (British Lions) tour to Australia and New Zealand. Read More
08 July 2014 Origins of Rugby This round ball has been on display at the World Rugby Museum for many years. It was formerly a part of the private collection of sports journalist Harry Langton, who believed it to date from the 1820s. Read More