“Witness the wonder” boasts the slogan for the nine-day extravaganza of striving and success at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. That encouragement could easily be applied to the dazzling array of memorabilia and historical detail at the Museum of World Athletics, tucked away on the third floor of the glitzy Etele Plaza mall on the Buda side of the Danube.
“The world’s greatest athletics collection: clothes; shoes, medals, trophies, equipment,” bellows the hyperbole at the entrance to the collection.