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The museum is packed with much rugby memorabilia, including a Gilbert football of the kind used at Rugby School that was exhibited at the first World's Fair, [3] [4] [5] at the Great Exhibition in London and the original Richard Lindon (inventor of the rubber bladder for rugby balls) brass hand pump. Traditional handmade rugby balls are still ...
The Rugby Art Gallery and Museum is a combined art gallery and museum in central Rugby, Warwickshire, in England. The purpose-built building housing it is shared with Rugby library; it was opened in 2000 and was built in the place of Rugby's previous library. [1] [2] [3]
This list of museums in Warwickshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available ...
Rugby Museum may refer to: Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, a local history museum and gallery in the English town of Rugby, Warwickshire; New Zealand Rugby Museum, a museum dedicated to the sport of rugby union, in Palmerston North, NZ; Rugby League Heritage Centre, a museum of Rugby League in Huddersfield, England, between 2005 and 2013
The Rugby School Museum, which has audio-visual displays about the history of Rugby School and of the town. The combined Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. The art gallery contains a nationally recognised collection of contemporary art. The museum contains, amongst other things, Roman artefacts dug up from the nearby Roman settlement of Tripontium.
Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (12 May 1805 – 24 April 1888), a native of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, was a Warwickshire antiquary and amateur archeologist, author of a popular guide to Gothic architecture. He was the original source of the legend of William Webb Ellis' invention of the game of Rugby football.
This list of museums in Norfolk, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
World Rugby Hall of Fame and Rugby Art Gallery Museum & Library, Little Elborow Street, Rugby 52°22′18″N 1°15′52″W / 52.371772°N 1.264367°W / 52.371772; -1. 2016 ( 2016 )