Effective June 22nd 2026 yoyomuseum.com will no longer be hosted by or under the control of Grahame BaptieWright (aka Chimera) and I will have no further involvement in running or maintaining the Museum.
It’s been a great 20+ years and I hope the Museum continues to be a useful resource for the yo-yo community under its new stewardship.
Grahame
I have gotten so much useful information from the museum. Thank you for your time and dedication.
who are the new owners/stewards?
Noooooooooo, thanks for all you have done over the years. Before you turn over the reigns can I get an owner name changed on one of the listings?
Wow. Thank you for 20+ years of service. That website has soo much useful information on long lost forgotten gems and more. I use it all the time. It has a vast wealth of knowledge and history for a lot of yoyos that you can’t find anywhere else. I hope it can continue for another 20+ years or more under the new stewardship. Or at the very least be uploaded to github and made open source so we never lose that knowledge.
I wonder if @theyoyoarchive or even @AndreBoulay could import the data from the old museum to keep the legacy alive.
I have the skills and a small club site but don’t have the capacity/time for another project or maintenance for such a site structure.
Thank you for your service to the hobby. Cool runnings 
This.
Sounds like a job for an ai bot? I know ai bad, but it is decent for menial tasks like this running in the background, yeah?
Claude cowork has be stupid useful for me tbh, at least with the early tinkering with my employers rollout. It has been great for scraping data from old docs to make databases and stuff
thx for what you’ve done with it these past decades, grahame!
i remember just poring over those entries when i was just getting into throwing (and collecting no jives in particular). <3
Yeah the hard part is funding for hosting the data. My club sites all run as freeware today and adding the museum would throw me way over the hosting limits meaning I would have to tinker to make it work or get funding. The folks I mentioned already have hosting solved so it’s just managing the content which 100% could be imported using AI.
Theres a minor desire to import old stuff from the way back machine off of the difeyo site and others that have gone defunct over time too.
the hardest part with import is the formatting the old site is definitely not modern so it’ll be messy to import. AI would probably be the best part for the import job its self
I’ll gladly take over running the site, or merging it into the Archive.
I’m away until the 29th, but please reach out to me to discuss!
I’ve handled hosting for 10+ years, and the cost has been minimal. That’s not the issue here, trust me.
I believe someone has already agreed to host and manage it. I chatted with someone a while back who informed me they would be taking over the site
Edit: whoops went back to my chat and they said they do regular updates to it. Not that they are taking it over. I completely misremembered that.
The original text of this very post states
So I assume it is in someone’s capable hands.
You are correct ; -)
I see I saw a post elsewhere on Facebook that indicated it was still looking for new hosting
Just a quick update.
Thank you to everyone who has shared feedback in this thread through word and the humble emoji. I also want to sincerely thank Grahame for keeping the Yo-Yo Museum alive for so many years, using his own time and resources. And thank you to Dave for creating the museum in the first place and helping preserve so much yo-yo history.
Going forward, my son and I have taken on responsibility for the museum.
From my son:
"We’re currently in the process of moving to a new host and getting deployment infrastructure setup. The goal right now is to get the site back up as soon as possible.
After that, we’ll be assessing the code and figuring out how to bring it up to modern standards while adding quality-of-life improvements."
Stay tuned.
Clear your cache.
Appreciate it. Great resource! Spent a lot of time on that site before migrating over here.
