Baseball Card Cyber Museum
Gallery Exhibition
The oldest wing of the museum, the Baseball Card Cyber Museum began in 2004 with scans of random cards and the complete 2004 Topps set. It has now grown to over 120,000 items, making it not only the oldest gallery, but also the largest.
Curator of Collections, Card Cyber Museum
Much like any museum (art, historical, science, or natural) - cyber, virtual, or otherwise - the purpose of the Baseball Card Cyber Museum to inform, educate, enlighten, entertain, and inspire through the sharing of information, images, and objects.
Most of us will never own a Monet painting, but we are able to visit an art museum to see one. With many collectibles, the same is true; one may not wish to acquire every Topps card ever printed, but would enjoy the chance to view as many as possible in a friendly environment.
A brick-and-mortar baseball card museum, while a nice idea, wouldn't reach as many people as can be reached through the Internet. A cyber museum is the ideal alternative. Through the cyber sharing of this personal collection of cards, the Baseball Card Cyber Museum hopes to avoid what is happening with the Burdick Collection, a 306,353 card collection donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1947, of which only a few hundred cards are on public display at any one time. As of 2015, there are fewer than 10,000 scans available for public viewing. The museum is more concerned about maintaining the condition and security of the collection, but at the expense of being able to share it with regular folk. That doesn't seem right. For more on this, google the Burdick Collection.
We would also hope this project will encourage others to build their own virtual museums, no matter what they collect, so that more people can enjoy the fruits of their efforts and love of collecting.
Originally focused on standard issue Topps sets, the museum collection currently displays all Topps complete base sets from 1951 to the present day. Frequent and regular donations have included sets from brands such as Bowman, Bowman Heritage, Fleer, Donruss, M1014, Red Heart and Upper Deck, just to name a few. The Baseball Card Cyber Museum maintains its original concentration on complete sets (over 400), and we only add complete sets to the gallery.
Nearly 190,000 unique cards can be viewed, searched, and 'flipped' in the the Baseball Card Cyber Museum gallery.
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The mission of the original Baseball Card Cyber Museum, and the other main Card Galleries of the CCM (Basketball, Football, Hockey, Trading), is to inform, educate, enlighten, entertain and inspire through the sharing of information, images and objects; all programs, files, images, text and data on the site support this mission.
Due to bandwidth constraints, and the free nature of the Cyber Card Museum (and also to keep the search engines from ruining the site with their robots and incessant "site hammering"), Visitor Pass access to the Museum is granted to 500 visitors at any one time. Visitors are given a free user ID and password (think of it as your virtual access card), and each visitor is enabled access for four months (120 days), at which point they can renew access for another four months - and so on.
Visitor Pass access to the Museum is free, and has been so, for over 15 years.
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About Galleries and Exhibitions
The Card Cyber Museum's cornerstone Exhibition Galleries include the original Baseball Card Cyber Museum, as well as Galleries for Football, Basketball, Hockey and Trading Cards.
Future exhibitions are planned around key athletes, and other special subjects.
