The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky has announced plans to build a new dedicated education gallery for the next generation of Chevy Corvette fans, designers, and engineers.
“The new education gallery will be designed for both children and adults to enjoy, featuring artifacts and interactive technology celebrating the unique story of Corvette,” said Museum Educator Deb Howard. “The new space will not only serve guests visiting from out of town with youth-centric content for families to enjoy, but it will also serve as a space to engage our local community schools with standards-based STREAM education, learning opportunities, and new educational programming.”
The new National Corvette Museum gallery will span some 2,000 square feet, with plans by Sewell and Sewell Architects, and Scott, Murphy & Daniel tapped for construction. The design of the new education gallery will take after the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, with the former Director of Exterior Design for the GM Performance Car Studio and 2019 Corvette Hall of Fame Inductee, Tom Peters, assisting in the design.
Funding the gallery is a donation by Tim and Melanie McMichael from Gypsum, Colorado. “A children’s education gallery will provide a different lens for children to view how a car works and possibly change the way they think and, even further, instill in them a passion that will push them to do something amazing with their lives,” Melanie said.
The new gallery is slated for a tentative opening later this year or early 2023, with construction ramping up later in the month.
Established in 1994, the National Corvette Museum is located at 350 Corvette Drive, just a quarter mile from the GM Bowling Green Assembly plant, the exclusive producer of the of Chevy Corvette since 1981. In addition to educational opportunities and the Corvette Hall of Fame, the museum also offers Corvette customers the RC8 delivery package, which allows customers to take delivery of their new Corvette fresh from the factory floor.
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Well maybe this will be a good thing for all . Especially the kiddos out there . To teach the next generation of youth that you will have to have a college education so you can get a good job that pays lots of money, Because you will need it if you are going to buy a new corvette in the future ! I can just imagine what the mark ups will be by then . If history repeats itself with the new C8 CRAZY out of control dealer mark ups we have now ! lol
That’s what the “college educated” do. The smart ones pick up a used Corvette, 5 years old with barely any miles, and enjoy it while they still have the eyesight and reflexes.
Idk, it’s the college educated that I see riding bussses to their job as a package handler at Amazon to pay back thier 60K in loans for a degree in gender studies. It’s the welders, electricians and plumbers I see buying new Denali trucks and Cadillacs and suburbans for their wifes. Who would have though 20 years ago that college would become a liability
This is good. The best thing that could happen is to re-open the factory tours. That will get more people at the museum.
A facility such as this could possibly inspire career decisions.