As others have noted, this is an expensive undertaking, and unlikely to be self-funding, but also not that expensive in the context of the profits our industry

As others have noted, this is an expensive undertaking, and unlikely to be self-funding, but also not that expensive in the context of the profits our industry generates and the numerous billionaires created therein. I'm also interested in old cars. Many old cars are worth millions and people like Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno use their wealth to preserve them. Unfortunately that scenario doesn't seem to exist for historic computers yet, although there is a collector scene at the low end (try to buy a KIM-1 now for less than $1000, for example). I'd be willing to pay something in support of reopening the museum -- I already spend some money on picking up what I see as historic artifacts from auction sites and the LCM would actually be a more efficient way for my money to be used to achieve preservation of larger working systems. For example I have a complete board set for a pdp-11/70 (key milestone in the evolution of the systems we use today), but I can't afford to buy a rack, disk drives, and provide electricity to make a running system. The LCM already has a pdp-11/70 running V7. If I could fractionally own that, I think it'd be a good deal. I could also pledge my board set as spares should they be required. But it would take 10000 people with my limited resources to properly fund the museum, I suspect.