New Zealand Rugby Museum

The New Zealand Rugby Museum, based totally in Palmerston North, New Zealand, is a museum committed to the sport of Rugby union. Founded through John Sinclair and modeled after the Trophy Room in Cardiff Arms Park in Wales, the museum's collections encompass equipment, clothing, books, photographs, trophies, badges and nearly the whole thing else related to the sport. Until his dying in 2012, Wilson Whineray was the museum's client at the identical time as Stephen Berg is the entire-time director.

The museum moved into larger premises adjacent to the Civic Centre and Te Manawa cultural complicated previous to the Rugby World Cup 2011. The Museum changed into a part of the REAL New Zealand Festival, a series of cultural events and sports activities coordinated with the website hosting of the Cup. A handful of the approximately 50,000 holdings are contributed to NZMuseums, the mixed catalog of museums throughout New Zealand. As well as collecting items related to key historical suits, the museum additionally loans precise objects for precise uses.