Last February, KCCI told you about the struggle to keep the Bob Feller Museum in Van Meter open.Now, the museum located at 310 Mill St. has officially closed.The museum was dedicated to Iowa's greatest baseball player. It used to have nearly 400 members, but by last spring that had dropped to less than 100."After Bob's passing a few years ago, we haven't drawn quite as much business as they would have liked, so there is some financial things going on with that," Van Meter Mayor Allan Adams told KCCI in February.To cut costs, the board had shut the museum down during the winter months of 2013.The city of Van Meter is working to make some of the memorabilia available to the public.

Last February, KCCI told you about the struggle to keep the Bob Feller Museum in Van Meter open.



Now, the museum located at 310 Mill St. has officially closed.

The museum was dedicated to Iowa's greatest baseball player. It used to have nearly 400 members, but by last spring that had dropped to less than 100.

"After Bob's passing a few years ago, we haven't drawn quite as much business as they would have liked, so there is some financial things going on with that," Van Meter Mayor Allan Adams told KCCI in February.

To cut costs, the board had shut the museum down during the winter months of 2013.

The city of Van Meter is working to make some of the memorabilia available to the public.