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National Football Museum exhibition continues its tour of the nation
The National Football Museum's highly popular touring exhibition Saved for the Nation: The Story of the FA Cup continues its national tour when it appears at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle from 23 January - 11 April 2010. See www.tulliehouse.co.uk for more information.
The exhibition has successfully toured up and down the country since it was first launched at the National Football Museum in 2006. Demand has been phenomenal and to date it has visited the Discovery Museum in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, the Milestones Museum in Basingstoke, the House of Commons in London, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery and Leeds City Museum.
“We chose this exhibition as we felt it would be an excellent opportunity to engage with an audience who may not have necessarily visited the museum before”, says Michelle Wiggins, Audience Development Manager at Tullie House. “It has also enabled us to strengthen our links with other community organisations such as youth footballing groups, Carlisle United’s Football in the Community and the Cumbria FA. Some years ago Tullie House was host to the ‘Homes of Football’ exhibition by Stuart Clarke which proved to be extremely popular.”
The exhibition is a celebration of the world's oldest and most loved football competition and includes features on:
- How and why the FA Challenge Cup was created in 1871/72
- The great FA Cup teams, players and goals, including film footage
- Great upsets and the most famous underdogs in the competition's history
The centre piece is the 1896 FA Cup trophy, the oldest surviving FA Cup and arguably the most important piece of English football memorabilia. It replaced the first FA Cup trophy which was stolen from a shop in Birmingham in 1895. The replacement trophy had the same design as the original and was used from 1896 to 1910. The great teams that won the trophy during these years were Sheffield Wednesday (twice); Aston Villa (twice); Nottingham Forest; Sheffield United (twice); Bury (twice); Tottenham Hotspur; Manchester City; Everton; Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester United. The trophy was retired in 1910 and presented as a gift to the FA President Lord Kinnaird. It remained in the Kinnaird family until 2005 when the trophy was purchased at auction by Mr David Gold, and saved for the nation.
Prize objects from the world’s finest collection of football memorabilia are included in the exhibition while object selection can also be tailored for each venue on the tour. Some of the star artefacts include:
- The ball from the 1903 FA Cup Final won by Bury
- Sir Stanley Matthews' kit worn in the 1953 ‘Matthews Final' for Blackpool
- George Stacey's shirt from Manchester United's first Cup win in 1909
Saved for the Nation is available to hire from mid April; for more information contact Jon Sutton, Collections Officer (Exhibitions & Film), on 01772 284674 or jon.sutton@nationalfootballmuseum.com.