EXCLUSIVE: WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE SPORTS MUSEUM FINDS NEW HOME ON VEGAS STRIP
The world’s most expensive, valuable and elaborate interactive sports memorabilia museum is headed to the Strip, and the most expensive baseball card at $2.35 million will be just one of its attractions at the Luxor. Luxe Life has learned exclusively that “Sports Immortals” will take the place of the resort’s current I-Max theater and will join the newly arriving Bodies and Titanic exhibits taking up 30,000-square-feet of mezzanine space under the pyramid. Titanic takes the place of the old King Tut museum as the Luxor sheds the last vestiges of its old Egyptian themes.
Executives have made a 10-year deal for the three major attractions, and I’m reliably told that because they will now be permanent exhibits as opposed to traveling shows all will be bigger and better than anything seen before in Vegas. Bodies will be the first attraction to move in at the end of July. Expect the others, which are all having incredible audio and visual effects and interactive components being built, to be added early fall.
Sports Immortals will go back to the turn of the century with a rare 1909 baseball card of Pittsburgh player Honus Wagner. When it last changed hands ice hockey star Wayne Gretsky who lives in Phoenix sold it for over $2 milliuon to an anonymous California collector. Since the 80’s the mint-condition Honus tobacco card has been regarded as the most highly sought after since baseball cards first became available. Only 60 were produced before the shortstop star objected and had it pulled because he didn’t want to promote smoking. All but a few were destroyed and now only a handful exists with collectors. One of the rare cards went for $1.27 million on E-Bay in July 2000.
I’ve also learned that there will be special exhibits of such stars as Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan in the museum. In addition to the cutting edge technology allowing interaction between guests and the star players retail boutique will offer celebrity merchandise and collectibles.