Sports Museum Strikes Out

Less than a year old, the Sports Museum of America looks like they're leaving it on the field.

“As of February 20 at 6 p.m., the museum will be closed until further notice,” the Sports Museum's outgoing voicemail message said on Thursday night.

The Sports Museum of America, which bills itself as the "the nation’s first and only all-sports experience" is home to the Heisman Trophy. It's located across from the Charging Bill statue on Broadway in Lower Manhattan. It opened May 7, 2008.

The museum has been cutting admission prices lately, including $10 for adults and $5 for kids during Super Bowl weekend. This week, prices were cut for Mid-Winter recess. Just days ago, the museum's PR team sent out a news release touting a $5 children's price good through February 22.

" Parents love the Sports Museum of America. It was voted the #1 museum in Manhattan in both the teens and big kids categories of the first ever Nickelodeon Parents’ Pick Awards, ahead of the American Museum of Natural History, the Children's Museum of Manhattan and others," the press release continued. "The Museum features amazing state-of-the-art interactive technologies, 19 dramatic original films and an iconic collection of sports memorabilia, including Billie Jean King's elementary school report card, Derek Jeter’s Little League uniform and Jimmy Johnson’s actual NASCAR racing car that is suspended on its side from the ceiling of the auto racing gallery, “The Need for Speed.”"