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World Rugby Museum

sports museum in Twickenham, United Kingdom
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Summary

World Rugby Museum is a sports museum[1]. It draws 25 Wikipedia views per month (sports museum category, ranking #14 of 20).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: London Borough of Richmond upon Thames[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Instance of: independent museum[5]
  • Architect: Mather & Co[6]
  • Founder: Rugby Football Union[7]
  • Owned by: Rugby Football Union[8]
  • Location: London[9]
  • Postal code: TW2 7BA[10]
  • Part of: Twickenham Stadium[11]
  • Commons category: World Rugby Museum[12]
  • Inception: 1982[13]
  • Coordinate location: 51.455197, -0.340608[14]
  • Official website: https://worldrugbymuseum.com/[15]
  • Has facility: accessible toilet[16]
  • Main subject: rugby union[17]
  • Email address: mailto:museum@rfu.com[18]
  • Official blog URL: https://worldrugbymuseum.blog/[19]
  • Date of official opening: 1996[20]
  • Area: 650 m²[21]
  • Open days: Tuesday[22], Wednesday[23], Thursday[24], Friday[25], Saturday[26], Sunday[27]
  • Street address: Whitton Road, Twickenham TW2 7BA[28]
  • Historic county: Middlesex[29]
  • Social media followers: 2792[30]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . vocaleyes.co.uk. Retrieved . vocaleyes.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . vocaleyes.co.uk. Retrieved . vocaleyes.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . vocaleyes.co.uk. Retrieved . vocaleyes.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] ↑ . matherandco.com. matherandco.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . worldrugbymuseum.com. worldrugbymuseum.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Libanp · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://worldrugbymuseum.com/
    Email address → mailto:museum@rfu.com
    Date of official opening → +1996-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Official blog url → https://worldrugbymuseum.blog/
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