Monday, January 13, 2014

NYC's Met museum shows off football trading cards

Assistant curator Freyda Spira, of the department of drawings and prints, poses with football cards, part of an exhibition to be mounted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The museum better known for high art, is presenting a pop-up exhibition celebrating football’s history through the ages with vintage trading cards. The 150 cards, including a series from 1894, are part of approximately 600 football cards from the museum’s vast collection of sport trade cards donated to the Met by the late hobby pioneer Jefferson Burdick. The exhibit opens Jan. 24 and runs through Feb. 10. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) NEW YORK (AP) — New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition of vintage football trading cards. It opens Jan. 24 and runs through Feb. 10.








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