Turkey's best sportsmen and women in the fields of basketball, volleyball, gymnastics and table tennis before focusing its resources exclusively on women's volleyball in the early 1990s. During this period, the Club won 13 National Championships in table tennis, eight National Championships in men's basketball, 12 National Championships in men's volleyball, and three National Championships in chess. Since 1968, the women's volleyball team has won 27 National Championships, seven National Cups and played in eight European Cup Finals, winning the “European Cup Winner’s Cup” in 1999. In addition to its A-team, the Club has three junior teams that have contributed players over the years to the A team, other first division teams and the Turkish National Volleyball Team. Arts and Culture Istanbul Museum of Modern Art Istanbul Modern is a museum committed to preserving and exhibiting Turkey's heritage of modern and contemporary art. Eczacıbaşı Group is the founder of Turkey's first privately funded museum of modern art, to which it provided the initial investment and project management finance as well as the core collection of paintings. Using a combined chronological and thematic exhibition design of its permanent collection, İstanbul Modern showcases Turkish art through their foremost exponents. Additionally, the Museum organizes retrospective exhibitions of Turkish modern masters and of internationally acclaimed artists. İstanbul Modern also organizes periodic exhibitions of photography, video and modern Turkish sculpture in addition to thematic film programs. To date, more than 400 thousand students have participated in the educational programs organized by İstanbul Modern's Educational and Social Projects Department in the Museum and around the city. Overall, almost two million people have visited the Museum's exhibitions during its first two-and-a-half years of activities. Eczacıbaşı Virtual Museum The Eczacıbaşı Group is committed to raising public awareness and appreciation of Turkish modern art. To this end, it has developed one of the largest permanent collections of abstract and figurative work by Turkish painters. In 1999, to increase public access to this collection and other paintings, the Group established a virtual museum of Turkish visual art. In line with contemporary museum norms, the Eczacıbaşı Virtual Museum contains both permanent and temporary collections supplemented by curatorial text. Istanbul International Music, Film, Jazz, Theatre and Visual Art Festivals The Eczacıbaşı Group is a supporter of the Istanbul International Festivals, both through its sponsorship of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts, founded in 1973 on the initiative of Dr. Nejat