National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Sports museum in Cooperstown, United States.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a sports museum in Cooperstown, New York, dedicated to the history of baseball. The building houses more than 40,000 artifacts, 250,000 photographs, and 14,000 hours of recorded material spanning over a century of American sports.

Stephen Carlton Clark, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, built the Hall of Fame to draw tourists to Cooperstown after the Depression and Prohibition had hurt the village. The building was dedicated on June 12, 1939. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson had been elected in 1936, and about twenty more were chosen before the whole group was inducted at the 1939 opening.

The Hall's motto, "Preserving History, Honoring Excellence, Connecting Generations", frames the exhibits, and the plaque gallery carries the bronze tablets of every inductee. The nickname "Cooperstown" is used by fans as shorthand for the Hall itself. Induction weekend each summer brings returning members and a ceremony open to the public.

The museum opens daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The entrance on Main Street leads through the arched double red doors beneath the round window; banners hang between the upper windows. The building sits in the village centre, within walking distance of Doubleday Field.

The Souls of the Game exhibition documents the history of African American baseball players before the Negro Leagues and their later integration into Major League Baseball. Uniforms, gloves, and personal items tell the stories of players who were excluded from professional baseball for decades.