Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum
The Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum is a rugby football museum in the town centre of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, near Rugby School. It takes its name from William Webb Ellis who is credited with inventing the game of Rugby football.
The museum, opened in the 1980, and is housed in the building where the shoe and boot maker James Gilbert,, first made rugby balls in 1842. On its premises it is identified as The Rugby Museum.
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, at the Great Exhibition in London and the original Richard Lindon brass hand pump. Traditional handmade rugby balls are still made at the museum.
