River & Rowing Museum

The River & Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames is one of the UK’s leading regional and sporting museums, attracting over 90,000 visitors a year. The Museum, an independent charity, also has a purpose built education centre visited by over 14,000 children a year, who use the museum’s galleries and striking outdoor riverside environment to learn and discover.

The River & Rowing Museum celebrates three themes explored through a wide variety of exhibitions and events across four galleries and special exhibitions:

The past, present and future of the River Thames;
The historic riverside community of Henley on Thames;
The international sport of rowing.

One the Museum’s major success has been The Wind in the Willows exhibition which recreates the timeless E H Shepard illustrations from Kenneth Grahame’s famous novel.

"The River and Rowing Museum is not only of great significance to Henley which attracts rowers to its regattas from all over the world, but to my chosen sport which has deep roots in this country and which until now has lacked a centre to record and celebrate its achievements"
Sir Steve Redgrave CBE DL