The sporting heritage includes buildings, theaters for sporting competitions, and equipment characteristic of each discipline, artistic works having a sport for object, written and published texts, audiovisual but also oral archives testifying to sporting practices and passions. . This very diverse heritage only takes on its full meaning if the elements preserved are placed in their context. The task of bringing together, safeguarding and exhibiting this heritage falls to specialized museums, a key to understanding the division of activities according to gender, the social stratification of tastes, the affirmation of local and regional identities, national (through the fervor aroused by major matches), the way in which our societies deal with the violence of confrontations, the canons of beauty and bodily decorum ... and the cardinal values of modern societies (the spirit of competition, between other).