@TheCoinDad on Twitter has created the first bitcoin ASIC museum. He even has the Avalon2, an extremely rare piece that that came out just after the first ASIC miner was delivered to Jeff Garzik. Check out his collection:
https://bitcoinminingmuseum.com/ Nice website...thanks! Now I need to see someone create a website museum for all items Bitcoin related...especially physical Bitcoins.
Thanks for sharing though!
I know this isn't quite a bitcoin museum, but I still think somebody might find this interesting; The "Scarce City" marketplace (
https://scarce.city/) has physical collectible section that you can find and/or purchase. The search filters can narrow the results down to "Physical" and "Collectible" (
https://scarce.city/marketplace/physical?refinementList%5Bcategory%5D%5B0%5D=collectibles).
While there isn't much on there ATM, there are currently a couple physical "Casascius" style loaded coins on there.
Also, if you go to the Scarce City homepage, you can scroll through the "Past Drops" section to find almost 100 different collection categories. For example, 1 of the ~100 collections is called "The Unconfiscatable Collection" which contains 22 items, including Casascius, TGBEX, and BTCC Mint coins (
https://scarce.city/collections/unconfiscatable-1).
I also remember seeing many of the old USB miners (Block erupters, Antminer u1, u2 collections ect..). They are still on there somewhere. Search engines will find them.
The site is mostly cluttered with a bunch of pepes and artwork, but there are quite a few really cool/old physical pieces of bitcoin hardware and memorabilia in there if you take some time to rummage through the garbage.
Despite this, I agree that a dedicated/organized/formal physical bitcoin museum website is definitely missing in this space. I think it's probably a matter of time before somebody or some community in this space builds one. Heck if I had the money I would love to build it myself, but Casascius coins are (obviously) expensive!