The Collingwood Football Club is now the proud holder of one of the most extensive collections of memorabilia relating to a single player in the VFL/AFL.
That collection focuses on Nathan Buckley, one of the most significant and iconic figures in the Club’s history. Over the past 12 months we have accumulated an amazing array of items relating to Bucks and his career.
Mostly, that has been possible through Bucks’ extraordinarily generous donations to our footy club. Last year he permanently donated items including his 2003 Brownlow Medal, his 2002 Norm Smith Medal, all six of his Copelands, all seven of his All-Australians and numerous other awards, medallions and ephemera.
This year he’s donated further items, including a number of matchworn and training guernseys and the jumper he wore in his last-ever game for Collingwood in 2007.
Taken together with the items we already had in our Archives, the end result is a staggering range of items, including boots, balls, guernseys, medals and awards, fan-based ephemera, shorts, socks, kitbags, training tops. It really is a remarkable collection.
If you haven’t done so already, we strongly urge you to get down to the Museum at the AIA Centre and check out the exhibition we have running until the end of the season (we recently assed his Australian International Rules jumper, a distinctive red training jumper from 2001 and his Allies jumper from 1997!). You won’t be disappointed.
And again, our deepest appreciation to Bucks, for being such a great supporter of the Museum!
