Sport Heritage
Culture24 takes a cultural look at the best football and sport exhibitions together with gems from the history of sport with reviews, event listings, websites and resources from museums and archives across the UK.
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum mobilises community to capture Olympic Torch Relay
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum is appealing to the local community to get out and photograph the torch relay for an exhibition that combines past with present.
Anne Desmet reveals her Olympic Metamorphoses at PM Gallery and House
Wood-engraved print portraits of the surrounding area and collages of the building phases as the Royal Academy artist responds to the Olympic construction near her home.
Painstaking conservation effort pays off as Monkwearmouth displays 1972 Olympic Posters
David Hockney, Serge Paliokov, Allen Jones and Max Bill are among the artists whose Olympic artworks have gone on show at Monkwearmouth Station Museum in Sunderland.
England Women celebrate 25 years of mauling at Twickenham's World Rugby Museum
Nicola Ponsford, one of the original members of the first ever England Women side, on the exhibition marking the game's most rapidly expanding side.
The Games of Zeus summons Olympic spirit at Caerleon's National Roman Legion Museum
Find out why the Greeks once deployed dust as an anti-perspirant and launched the funerals of dignitaries with chariot races in the Roman Legion Museum's new show.
Herbert appeals to public for footage capturing joy of Coventry City's 1987 FA Cup win
Organisers of an exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Coventry's FA Cup win are asking the public to send in footage of the day itself and the celebrations which followed.
In Pictures: Andy Day's Parkour pictures at Public
In a new exhibition at The Public at West Bromwich, photographer Andy Day takes a panoramic look at the spectacular sport of Parkour, the Paris-spawned phenomenon in which runners navigate urban......
Playing for Wales – Gareth Bale, Ryan Giggs and friends at the National Waterfront Museum
The Story of the Football Association of Wales charts FA Cup wins and World Cup campaigns as Swansea City enjoy the first ever season for a Welsh club in the Premier League.
Olympic Posters: Pop and Publicity brings early taste of Games to Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Showing that the pop art posters of the 2012 Olympics take their lead from the Munich games of 1972, an exhibition in flame host city Wolverhampton merges sport and art.
Archives of England's oldest swimming club unearthed in Brighton library
Artefacts dating back to the 1860s go on display at Brighton's Jubilee Library, examining the heritage of the Brighton Swimming Club.
Cornish rowing revolutionary Ann Glanville is a local hero at Saltash Heritage Centre
Ralph Gifford reveals the remarkable story of a Cornish woman who had 14 children, ran a ferry, led rowing crews to victories across the world and remains a hero in Saltash.
Tour de France hero Mark Cavendish leads Our Sporting Life at Isle of Man's Manx Museum
After spending a year tracking down epic stories from the Isle of Man's competitive past, the Manx Museum opens a show testifying to its surprising sporting heritage.
England and Bolton Wanderers hero remembered in Nat Lofthouse: A Celebration
The recent death of Nat Lofthouse, one of the greatest goalscorers of all time for Bolton and England, has resulted in a show celebrating his career at Bolton Museum.
National Portrait Gallery unveils latest crop of London 2012 portraits
A striking new photograph of athlete Ellie Simmonds is among the portraits unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the exhibition, Road to 2012: Changing Pace.
Social Archive One: An Economic Forecast of Shoreditch at Rivington Place
The first stage in a three-year project that aims to map the fallout from the economic crisis in London's Olympic boroughs is being showcased at Rvington Place.
