The Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is one of the world's greatest motorcycle museums but, not content with simply celebrating the past, it is also looking forward to the future of motorcycling.

Barber Motorcycle Museum Launches Advanced Design Center

Museums are great for looking back to piece together the process whereby we got to where we are in motorcycling and one of the best of those is the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham Alabama.

But George Barber, founder of the museum and the accompanying Barber Motorsports Park, has his eyes just as firmly on the future as on the past.

It's an exciting new project and was described in this press release:

Birmingham, AL (January 7, 2022) – Traditional museums only peer backward in time, but the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is looking boldly into the future with the debut of its cutting-edge Advanced Design Center.

George Barber created the stunning Barber Motorsports Park complex in Birmingham, Alabama, around the world’s biggest and best motorcycle museum. Echoes of the past will resound at the museum’s new Advanced Design Center, a state-of-art facility built to inspire new generations of creative thinkers.

The intention of the Barber Advanced Design Center (BADC) is to encourage and explore design via the latest computer-aided design (CAD) as well as old-school clay modelling, with the capacity to turn concepts into product reality.

“The Advanced Design Center was created to open the door to thinking,” Mr. Barber stated about his latest vision. “We need people to think beyond what’s happening today and see how we can improve on it, and not just motorcycle design.”

This is a high-tech facility intended for Industrial Design study and exploration, complete with workstations, 3-D scanners and 3-D printers that will speed up design of brand new projects while simultaneously allowing the museum's workshop engineers to reverse-engineer vintage components, so it's a win-win for the whole museum as well as motorcycling in general.