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    The Pro Football Hall of Fame Museum in Canton, Ohio is undergoing several upgrades as part of the larger Hall of Fame Village development project. Upgrades include the addition of a rare football card collection worth $10 million, the relocation of the Black College Football Hall of Fame from Atlanta, and increased use of technology like digitizing archives and wearable devices. The museum will also feature a holographic theater exhibit.

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    The Pro Football Hall of Fame Museum in Canton, Ohio is undergoing several upgrades as part of the larger Hall of Fame Village development project. Upgrades include the addition of a rare football card collection worth $10 million, the relocation of the Black College Football Hall of Fame from Atlanta, and increased use of technology like digitizing archives and wearable devices. The museum will also feature a holographic theater exhibit.

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    The Repository | CantonRep.

    com | Sunday, June 26, 2016K7

    Hall of Fame Village: The Museum

    Museum upgrades include more technology,


    addition of Black College Football Hall of Fame
    And a rare
    card collection
    By Alison Matas
    Repository staff writer

    Theres been no build-out of the


    Pro Football Hall of Fame Museum,
    but the original Canton landmark is
    undergoing upgrades as part of Hall
    of Fame Village development.
    Aside from the addition of the
    holographic theater exhibit, heres
    whats planned:
    Hunt/Casterline football
    card collection
    The highest-graded football card
    collection in the world will be on
    display at the Pro Football Hall of SUBMITTED PHOTO
    Fame starting in mid-July. n The addition of the Black College Football Hall of Fame is part of the upgrades
    The Hunt/Casterline collection planned for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Museum. This photo shows Walter Payton
    was assembled by Dan Hunt from his playing days.
    president of FC Dallas and son of
    Hall of Famer Lamar Hunt and because the exhibit is an intersec- might be of interest.
    art adviser and consultant Robert tion of pop culture, art and sports,
    Casterline. The total collection he hopes it will be shown at major Black College Football
    includes more than 300,000 cards art institutions. Hall of Fame
    and features rookie cards of each The Black College Football Hall of
    enshrinee in the top grade avail- Digitized archives Fame is relocating to Canton from
    able. Its estimated to be worth at Eventually, museum-goers Atlanta.
    least $10 million. might be greeted by historical foot- Induction ceremonies could be in
    Some of the highlights are the ball information tailored to their Canton as early as 2017, and a trav-
    highest-graded 1965 Joe Namath preferences. eling exhibit will be created.
    rookie card, which is one of four The Hall is in the process of digi- The Black College Football Hall
    in existence, and a card from the tizing its files to create a personal of Fame either will get a permanent
    1800s of Henry Beecher, who was archive on each person who has home within the Pro Football Hall
    the captain of the Yale University played for the NFL. of Fame Museum, or it will get its
    football team and the first person to Wearable radio frequency tech- own building on the Hall of Fame
    be depicted on a football card. nology expected to play a role in Village campus.
    When the collection leaves the all facets of the village would be
    Hall after six months or a year, programmed to include a guests Reach Alison at 330-580-8312 or alison.
    it will travel for eight years. Joe favorite team or players, so when matas@cantonrep.com.
    Horrigan, the Halls executive REPOSITORY JULIE VENNITTI the guest walked up to the archive On Twitter: @amatasREP
    vice president of museums, said n A rare football card collection to go on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Museum. system, it would pull up files that

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