
The Wrestlers
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
The IISOH is seeking a minimum of $1 million (one million Dollars) from a benefactor in order to establish an endowment for the sport of WRESTLING. This is a naming opportunity for the benefactor to have a perpetual identification with the sport of WRESTLING. The endowment would be named by the benefactor with the approval of the IISOH Board of Directors. The endowment becomes a permanent trust fund invested by the Institute with only the quarterly earned interest being used for development of the WRESTLING collections in both the Library and Museum.
Cash donations IN ANY AMOUNT can also be made to the WRESTLING endowment at any time and are always welcome.
For more details about the Institute's endowment program, please click hereEndowment Program
The Library and Museum eagerly accept donations of material that are within the scope of its collections. Collectors are encouraged to donate books, monographs, theses & dissertations, magazine and subscription collections for the library, as well as medals, pins, torches, posters, graphic art, original artwork and collectables for the Museum. The wrestling collection includes amateur wrestling such as the folkstyles in the USA (college, high school) and other nations (Icelandic Glima, Japanese Sumo, British Cumberland & Westmoreland, etc). It also includes the wrestling forms in the ancient and modern Olympic Games, modern professional wrestling (TV & entertainment), and the latest innovations in the sport which includes women in wrestling. The mission is to develop the most comprehensive collection in the world.
LIBRARY donations:
MUSEUM donations:
These lists are not comprehensive and are limited only by your imagination! Keep in mind that Wrestling is the oldest known sport in the world. It is an international sport on the amateur level as well as a professional sport. We seek everything, in every language, in order to develop the most comprehensive collection in the world. The WRESTLING collection will include the PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING collection which is not a sport, but rather entertainment. Professional wrestling in the late 19th century was real but in the first half of the 20th century it became entertainment. Today it is a very popular television spectacle.
The Institute's long-term goal is to become the most comprehensive collection in the world, so visit us often over the next few decades.
For additional subject areas that we seek, see the list in the SUBJECTS area for endowments.
Go here to see the Subject List

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This page was created February 23, 2002
This page was updated June 27, 2008
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