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May 9, 2025
Are you ready to embark on a life-changing journey exploring National Corvette Museum and discovering what is new at the National Corvette Museum in 2025? In this video, we delve into what is new at the National Corvette Museum in 2025, covering all the exciting details. - Latest National Corvette Museum News - Upcoming events at the Corvette Museum 2025 - Corvette adventures 2025 ******************* CORVETTE TODAY #246 - What's In Store At The National Corvette Museum For 2025? Every year, we always check in with the National Corvette Museum to see what's going on and find out about the exhibits and events planned for the new year. Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, sits down with Ryan Eichler, the Director of Marketing and Communications at the NCM to talk about what's new for 2025 at the NCM. Steve and Ryan talk about what's new at the NCM along with upcoming events and exhibits planned for 2025. Ryan also talks about the new hires to the Executive Staff at the NCM.
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what's in store for the upcoming New Year Ryan Iker the director of marketing and Communications for the NCM is back
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with me on Corvette today to talk about the m in 2025 Ryan happy New Year and
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welcome back to the show buddy thank you Steve happy New Year to you Happy New Year to all your Die Hard Corvette
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listeners the National Corvette Museum just celebrated 30 years of existence what a milestone that's awesome and I'm
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sure everybody the museum is obviously very excited talk to me what's the vibe around the museum as we work in through
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year number 30 year number 30 right what an amazing accomplishment right I mean that's kind of the first piece is just a
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moment of pride and celebration of course our Founders always when they
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open the museum assumed it would be successful as everybody does in any type of new Endeavor but to be able to look
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forward now 30 years later and see the size of the campus the amount of guests that we welcome every single day to the
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museum the amount of children that we introduce Corvette to and excite and then of course the celebration and
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thankfulness that we have to our members I would say all that is just kind of a collective frenzy that it's building us
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up to as we look to what the next 30 years are going to look like that's pretty cool and we also have some new hires of the museum tell me about the
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Three A's Amy Andy and Andrea yeah it has been a very busy time
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for our HR team we had a couple key roles that have been open over the last couple months we were able to bring on
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Amy Harden who is our director of development Amy is a boomerang to the National Corvette Museum she actually
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had this role back in 2019 and then moved over to a few other organizations
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and then was able to join us and already is hitting the ground run I know that she's been meeting with some Corvette clubs already and starting to put a plan
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in place of really how we drive kind of that development piece forward Andy Markham joined us as our director of
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accounting has been amazing already incredible impact that he's made in the last 30 days because of course you know
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the end of the year is always that budgeting time so came in really at the right time and then also named Andrea
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baitman as our director of membership now for anybody that's been close to the museum for the last 6 months they've
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probably interacted with Andrea because she's really been on the front line really making sure that all of our
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members are receiving their benefits receiving the recognition that they deserve Andrea started out just about a
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year ago at the National Corvette Museum as the assistant to the CEO's office and really stepped in to help out with
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membership so very excited that we were able to elevate her so with that really the leadership team at the museum has
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been completely filled out which also certainly sets us up for a lot of success for 2025 that's great news now I
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know Museum delivery is also going strong our buddy Rod Keller and his staff are working overtime and you have
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a brand new mural on the outside wall of the museum as well so when you pull your car out you get a picture of your car
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with you with that new mural how many Corvettes did the museum deliver in 2024
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and what's the target number for 2025 well first off Steve let's just pause and just celebrate Rod okay because Rod
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Keller is somebody if you encounter him in the museum he's almost out of breath because he's sprinting from one place to
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another and Rod's somebody that really just joined us a year ago now and started in January of 2024 right has
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made an incredible impact you mentioned the mural the feedback that we've received on that new mural has been
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really fantastic I think from a marketing perspective you know I love how it really melds this idea of
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adrenaline Meats tradition together yeah but also was reflective of the feedback that we heard from all of our Museum
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delivery customers who said well kind of the direction that we went let's be honest it had a Mustang on it okay it
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was a horse it makes sense in Kentucky but it's a Mustang still right so feedback on that has been great and that's something that we're going to
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look to refresh pretty regularly just because of where it is it gets hit by the elements we know it's such a great
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photo backdrop and then really to get to what you specifically asked you know that photo backdrop was the backdrop to
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more than 1,200 Corvettes that were delivered in 2024 wow the program has been rocking you know of course rhc is
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always going to be a little contingent on Supply from our friends across the street at the Bowling Green assembly
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plan anticipating a great year for 2025 the other place that were really seen a
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lot of excitement is around the National Corvette Museum delivery program that
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experience that we do for all generation Corvettes that's actually up 90% this
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year wow I've seen just in the last quarter some absolutely incredible cars
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coming through that we had a gentleman who was visiting from Germany had shipped the ZR1 in and we were able to
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put that on the boulevard as one of the museum delivery experiences that was a C7 ZR1 one of the orange ones amazing
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story but you know when you walk out and you see everything from a two-tone C3 to some of these highly modified C4 up to
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the latest and greatest C8 that maybe is not taking rhc Museum delivery it's just so fun to be able to reinforce the
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people that even if you're coming to visit the museum for a day but you're driving your Corvette call Rod reach out
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to us let's get your Corvette on the boulevard let's get it through that museum experience buddy it's ironic that
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you're talking about that because I've already talked to Rod during the anniversary celebration about doing
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Museum delivery for my 70th anniv iversary 2023 white pearl metallic Stingray Coupe so I'm going to be doing
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that during The Bash so my museum delivery is already scheduled I'm ready to go I'm so looking forward to it can't
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wait can't wait we'll give you P1 on Corvette Boulevard that first delivery spot okay love it buddy that's awesome
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now let's talk about the Corvette Museum Store yeah inside the store has been updated too talk about the changes to
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the Corvette store yeah so you know we've certainly refreshed and reimagined some of the products that we offer
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curtain the buyer of this the eighth generation Corvette they're looking for a wide variety of products and
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accessories so we need to make sure that we can satisfy what they're looking for but also near and dear to my heart is
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when you have a C4 owner fourth generation owner coming in so it's really been a focus of broadening our
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products for all of the generation Corvette but then also at the same time making sure that we do about 75% of the
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people that go through the museum and our guest of the museum it's the first time they've been through so we need to make sure that we're offering those kind
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of smaller items that you can kind of grab and go and take with that make great gifts to say I was at the National
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Corvette Museum but maybe don't involve you buying a carbon fiber splitter so you know new products new accessories
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and then we continue to enhance our Corvette store online that continues to do fantastic for us and I encourage
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anybody that's looking for a very unique or hardto find gift check us out Corvett store.com number one seller is actually
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the replica window stickers wow no surprise though right because if you're a Corvette owner you want to have that
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mudy label right you want to have that window stickers so it's so great that we're able to offer that to guests and owners as well that's awesome now
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Corvette Raffles continue to be a hugely popular event there at the Museum let's talk about the Raffles what kind of cars
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do you see coming up for 2025 Raffles well 2025 for our Corvette raffle also
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going to be very exciting even kicking off very early in January on January 16th we're going to be raffling off our
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first Corvette r-ray perfect winter time all-wheel drive yes fits in well but you
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know you will see kind of the usual combination of build your own Corvettes as well as some unique models and then
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of course this eay we've given away nearly 500 corvet since the beginning of the program so really really successful
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for us and of course every raffle ticket supports our museum mission very cool and becoming a member of the museum is
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very simple and easy let's talk for a minute about the different levels of membership and how people can join yeah
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absolutely well the easiest way to do is just visit Corvette museum.org click on membership and you can see the different
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membership level and of course every member supports our important Mission which is really celebrating the legacy
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of America sports car right and continuing the education on that we have our annual memberships our family
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memberships which actually gets a family of four free admission to the museum along with all of the discounts that you
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would have with ncmi collector car insurance as well as the Corvette store then we of course have our lifetime
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membership level so this is for somebody that really wants to make their Mark and continue that Corvette Legacy and become
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a lifetime member of the museum and then certainly business level memberships as well for folks who may have a business
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that want to get involved with the National Corvette Museum as well over 38,000 members strong and with Andrea
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baitman now really taking the Reigns of membership we're very excited to see what new enhancements and benefits will
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be bringing to the table for 2025 fantastic I'm a lifetime member and absolutely love it thank you buddy let's
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National Corvette Museum in segment number two we're going to talk about some of the new exhibits coming in 2025
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first off Ryan a huge calling for any visit to the National Corvette Museum includes the w round video wall in the
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Sky Dome let's talk about that because that was a huge addition last year huge addition Steve so yeah so we
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affectionately call that the skywall so you go into the sky dome and you look into the skywall that is a 300° 9ft tall
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video wall that wraps the room I really right now compare it to almost an IMAX
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theater because we've updated the content that's playing in there and it's tied the the current exhibit so you're
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standing there watching movies that Corvettes have been in with the Cor vet that were in it right in front of you so
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I mean it's almost IMAX with an experiential feel to it it's really amazing and you know to walk in that
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space and to see people almost transfixed in the Sight and Sound and what they're watching versus prior to
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that you know of course that space has always been an icon for us people would kind of just walk through and do a loop but now with the skywall people really
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do stop in their tracks see what's playing read the stories of course spend more time learning about our Hall of
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Fame so it's really been a successful program for us how cool is that man and I know pop culture and Corvettes is the
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main attraction right now at the Museum tell me more about that that sounds cool yeah and that is what is mainly featured
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right now in the Skydome again so when I had mentioned movies pop culture and Corvette is really an exhibition that
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really dives into that Pop Culture Connection that Corvette has and you know when you think over the last 71
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years Corvette has been this status symbol in this icon so it only makes sense that it's used in movies TV
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commercials music videos driven by astronauts so it's an exhibition that really explains all that and really set
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against this amazing skywall content where you can watch Corvette Summer playing in the background as an example
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and then there's these Corvettes in front of it it's really an incredible exhibit and one that will be here for the majority of 2025 as well we'll be
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bringing in new Corvettes right now we have the stingray racer that Elvis Presley drove in Clambake we just
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brought that on to exhibition part of the exhibit so it's really really a cool space and a great exhibition wow that's
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really cool now there's an exhibit called luster that's finishing up on January 5th what else is planned for
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2025 then awesome well luster I encourage everybody you got a few more days if you're listening to come and see
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it if you haven't seen luster yet that will close on the 5th of January for anybody that's been through the museum
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you remember we did do quite a transformation to that limited engagement gallery and really turned it
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into this high-end art gallery for luster which was these photo realistic paintings of cars and engines so we're
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going to keep that kind of Art Museum Vibe going in that final space and in
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2025 we'll be opening speed captured the photographic works of Richard Prince wow
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that's going to open in March of 2025 and really going to be a breathtaking exhibition that celebrates the art of
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speed through the lens of famed Automotive photographer and Corvette Hall of Famer Richard Prince yes now of
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course Richard is known for capturing that essence of motion design and adrenaline and this will feature not
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only iconic Corvette images but some of those iconic Corvettes that were the subject of it so really excited for this
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one and of course I think you know for anybody that spends time around Corvettes or cars taking pictures of
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cars is something that we all love to do right I mean I'm sure you're stopping and looking back and snapping a picture of your Corvette so I think to be able
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to bring that to life with Richard's work and then some even self-explanatory of how you can take some amazing
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Automotive photography yourself will also be part of it so we're very excited for that opening in March of 2025 that's
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cool as a matter of fact my wife says I have more pictures of my Corvette on my phone than of her
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I fall in that category my friend it's a problem for many of us that are around Corvette right absolutely right now
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driven by Design is an ongoing feature of the museum that's been really popular too love driven by Design you know again
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telling really the story from sketch all the way to reveal of a new Corvette model and everything that goes into it
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from color to Clay modeling so that space again an area that we're always
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looking at how we can reimagine and how we can bring in New Concept cars prototype Corvettes current model
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Corvettes just to really illustrate the depth of thinking and the level of focus that goes into the design of the
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Corvette over the last 71 years yeah and also the McMichael family education Gallery continues to be a huge hit for
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kids of all ages isn't it absolutely of course you know education being at the center of our mission and really
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inspiring that next generation of Corvette fans but Automotive designers and Engineers we've seen an a tremendous
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outpouring of support as well as student groups coming through the McMichael family education Gallery this year you
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know with that studio X that we have in the back there that really replicates that studio x that you saw at the Warren Tech Center back in the 50s it really is
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a fantastic space my favorite part about it is you know there is some tactile experiences in there because for a kid
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coming through the museum it's hands off right yeah the cars are collection cars you can't touch them but when you get
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into the McMichael family education Gallery you know there's different materials kids can touch and feel what a brake petal feels like what a leather
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interior feels like so some of those Hands-On pieces as well being able to design their own idea of what a future
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Corvette would be it's just a great space and again so close to our mission can't than the McMichael family enough
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for the contributions that they've made not only to the National Corvette Museum but how they're really inspiring that
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next Generation absolutely and the two exhibits that really caught my eye and we kind of alluded to it a little bit
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earlier in the show there's a Corvette that was owned by Jerry Lee Lewis and also Apollo astronaut Jim level's
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Corvette is there at the Museum tell me more about those I love both of those absolutely well the 54 Jerry Lee Lewis's
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Corvette interesting story behind that one you know of course that was really at the dawn of Corvette so a
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technological Marvel at the time and Lewis owned multiple Corvettes throughout his life however this one is
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very unique it was actually repossessed by the IRS in 1980 as so many times these do right
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yeah it disappeared from public view for several decades and then resurfaced in
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2023 fortunate enough to be able to have that on loan and have that on exhibition and really illust straight what a true
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rocker drove back then interesting story and then of course Jim lavel Corvette
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Amazing Story there right I mean many of us are aware you know Corvettes became associated with astronauts after General
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Motors gifted Alan shefford I believe it was in 1962 and then this relationship
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extended through the very famous indie car driver Jim wrathman right who was the owner of that Chevrolet dealership
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near Cape canaval so thus you have that connection to the astronauts wrathman actually struck the deal where astronaut
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were allowed to lease a Corvette for $1 a year through his dealership and of course many of them choosing Corvettes
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this specific car level leas several Corvettes during his astronaut career this is a silver 1968 with 327 you can
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almost Picture level driving this Corvette we preparing for that Apollo 8 mission very very cool and there's even
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some additional artifacts on loan from the space center and Rocket Center in Huntsville Alabama that really
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compliment that exhibition wow beautiful car and a great story is that least program for adult or you're still in I'd
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love to get in on that you know it might be do you and I qualify as astronauts I'm not sure I wish I wish well you got
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yourself a rocket in your Corvette so well for sure for sure all right buddy it's time to take our final break we
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just talked about exhibits in our final segment we're going to talk about events coming up in the National Corvette
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4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is my buddy Ryan Iker the director of marketing and Communications for the
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National Corvette Museum we're talking about everything that's coming up in 2025 at the NCM in this final segment
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we're going to talk about events going on at Museum Ryan the two big shows that the NCM put on every year are the
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Michelin bash and the anniversary celebration give me a little overview of both of those shows and when
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registration opens up well thanks Steve and of course two events that are at absolutely Corvette and National
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Corvette Museum fan favorites the National Corvette Museum Michelin bash will be April 24th to the 26th of 2025
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and then of course our National Corvette Museum anniversary in Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be August 28th
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to the 30th 2025 both of these are Signature Events that of course every Corvette fan needs to put on their
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calendar and experience registration for The Bash will be opening in January and then later in the spring around April
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May timing we be opening up registration for anniversary best place for folks to get information on that is either
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Corvette museum.org any of our email communication as well as our social channels that's perfect that's great now
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you've got other shows planned for 2025 I know like the cultural awareness Corvette weekend is real popular what
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are some of the other shows that might not be as big as the bash or the anniversary celebration well we'll first
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talk a little bit about cultural awareness Corvette weekend because that does return to the National Corvette Museum August 14th to the 16th some of
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the friendliest Corvette owners you'll find but also some of those most amazing modified Corvettes you'll ever see so
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that's a really fun event and then I always will say any given day in the parking lot of the National Corvette
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Museum is an amazing event especially during those warm weather travel Seasons because we do have so many groups that
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Caravan to the museum whether it be a DeLorean Club the Bandit run all the
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folks that own those incredible mid 7s late '70s black and gold trans am oh
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yeah those events end up being where we'll do a group tour of the museum but they're leaving their cars in the
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parking lot and it is just amazing that's awesome I know Paul Crafton who oversees our group sales brought in a
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rollsroyce phantom Owners Group and I'm talking rollsroyce Phantoms that were built between
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1920 and 1930 wow Caravan to the museum are parked in the parking lot and then
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of course respecting honoring and learning about the legacy of America sports cars you know we do have these
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signature big events but really to me looking out the window seeing what's in the parking lot is also an event itself
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wow that's amazing hope you got some pictures of all those rolls-royces the rolls Ro out of this world and again
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driven from in some cases New York wow absolutely out of control truly amazing
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now you know one thing I don't know if every Corvette Enthusiast knows about or is aware of but the museum has events
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called Museum in motion this is where you go on drives with the museum places like tale of the Dragon the Rolex 24 and
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Daytona some Branson experiences talk more about Museum in motion you know Museum in motion for us is such a
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fantastic program because as a Corvette owner it's about getting in your car and
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driving and enjoying it and then enjoying your car with other like-minded Corvette owners so that's really what
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the museum and motions do we're bringing together the Corvette community and then traveling to very historic places for
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some context on history of course but also the fun ends up being in the drive so of course we will be going to the
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Rolex 24 in Daytona Branson the really really popular Kentucky one laps will
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return again in 2025 and those are these beautiful fall drives through the winding roads of Kentucky that kick off
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from the National Corvette Museum and then we have events like our Museum in motion to Lama now in that case you're
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not shipping your Corvette over to Europe you're riding around with other Corvette owners as we take you through some of the more historical points of
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Europe but then also hanging out with the Corvette racing team in Lama as well it's a fantastic program and again if
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want to learn more just visit Corvette museum.org and if you hit events you'll find all the museum and motion schedule
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that's cool and when you come to the museum lunch or dinner is a must at the stingray Grill love the stingray
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continues to be so popular with all of our guests Chef Jake does an amazing job
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they really elevated food Burgers we have that Blackberry grilled cheese sandwich that really is to die for
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people love it so yeah definitely lunch at the stingray Grill we're open midday I highly do recommend reservations which
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you can make off Corvette museum.org it's amazing what Chef is able to do with a small space but continue to hear great feedback on that look for some
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menu enhancements a little tease here into 2025 on how we may be bringing in some different menu items but then also
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working to also offer a variety of different beverages mixed drinks cocktails things like that very nice I
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don't mean to put you on the spot but tell me about something that might be unexpected that guest will see at the National Corvette Museum so always
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something new here and one enhancement that's a lot of fun for as we talked a lot about rhc and the National Corvette
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Museum experience the delivery programs we've actually added colored spotlights
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to Corvette Boulevard so when you're leaving Corvette Boulevard it's even more of a celebration I encourage
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Everybody Take a Look up we'll have spotlights and it really is a Symphony of Lights now it's people are leaving
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the museum in their new Corvettes or any generation Corvette in the experience side and then one other piece we're
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always looking for ways to connect everything in the museum back to Corvette history right even something as
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subtle as the wristbands that we give you when you come through the museum we just did a redesign of the wristbands and instead of making them any old color
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they tie to some of the seven early colors of Corvette so it's Polo white it's the onx black so some of those
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initial colors all even just tied to the wristband we're really trying to make sure that as our guests come through
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they realize how important our mission is but also how there's some fun Easter eggs no matter where you are in the
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museum and no matter what you see that's really cool I didn't even know about that that's fantastic buddy how can
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people reach the museum what's the website social media tell me all that absolutely so first stop is going to be
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www.c Corvett museum.org there you can find out all the information on our
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latest exhibitions membership Museum in motion links to the Corvette store as
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well as National Corvette Museum insurance as well as Motorsports Park so definitely encourage people to visit the
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website at the bottom of the website in the footer is where you can sign up for all of our email Communications we do a
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monthly Corvette campus connection that's kind of a rollup of everything happening at the Museum obviously communicating with members communicating
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with ambassadors in our Corvette club Community communicating with everybody that is interested in making a purchase
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or learning more of what the Corvette store has so encourage everybody to sign up for the email distribution and then lastly is our social channels we're
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active on Instagram Facebook X which was Twitter and Linkedin as well as YouTube
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and the handle for all those is just Corvette Museum and really the social channels are a place where you can learn
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about the cars that are on exhibition but also find out about any new Museum news as well so I encourage everybody to
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jump on those channels like them leave us a comment tell us how we're doing tell us what we could do differently or
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better always open to guest feedback and member feedback as well fantastic buddy thank you so much for being on Corvette
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today again Happy New Year I will see you at The Bash can't wait Steve appreciate the support and let's go for
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