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| Established | May 7, 2008 |
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| Dissolved | February 20, 2009 |
| Location | 26 Broadway (Standard Oil Building), Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Type | Professional sports hall of fame |
| Accreditation | For-profit |
| Collection size | 1,100 photographs and 800 artifacts |
| Visitors | 125,000 |
| Founder | Philip Schwalb and Sameer Ahuja |
| CEO | Philop Schwalb |
| Owner | Meaningful Entertainment Group[1] |
| Public transit access | Bowling Green station |
The Sports Museum of America (SmA) was the United States' first national sports museum dedicated to the history and cultural significance of sports in America. It opened in May 2008 and closed less than nine months later, in February 2009.
The Sports Museum of America was the nation's first major museum incorporating most major sports. In addition to becoming the official home of the Heisman Trophy and its annual presentation, the museum also housed the first-ever Women's Sports Hall of Fame. Among its board of directors were Mario Andretti, Martina Navratilova, Joe Frazier, Bob Cousy, Billie Jean King, Paul Hornung, and fifty other Hall of Fame athletes.
The museum was located in Lower Manhattan at the end of the Canyon of Heroes, at 26 Broadway, across from Bowling Green, close to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island ferry, the Whitehall Terminal of the Staten Island Ferry, Wall Street, and the World Trade Center.