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CORVETTE TODAY #230 - Meet The NCM's New Director of Collections & Education, Robert Maxhimer
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Jul 12, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY has the honor of introducing you to the new Director of Collections and Education at the National Corvette Museum, Robert Maxhimer! Robert's background and previous work experience makes him perfect for his new role at the National Corvette Museum. His previous work experience included Disney! So sit back and enjoy getting to know your new Director of Collections and Education at the NCM, Robert Maxhimer.
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Welcome to Corvette Today, the show that
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Hey, thank you. Thank you for having me.
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You bet. Robert, I always start off this
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way with our guests. Tell me about where
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you grew up. Do you have any siblings?
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And did you come from a car family?
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Yeah, well, you know, I grew up the
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great state of Texas, South Texas, down
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by Corpus Christi. We were a car family
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in that we worked on our cars. My
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granddaddy was a master mechanic for
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about 55 years for Chevrolet. So, he was
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a Chevrolet man. That was instilled on
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me early on. We always enjoyed working
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on our own cars. My uncle had a couple
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Corvettes that we love to drive around.
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Galveastston. A lot of good memories
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about that. So cars were very much part
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of our upbringing.
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That's cool. So they were important to
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you as you were growing up with your
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granddad and everything, right?
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That's right. Yeah, cars were a big part
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of our family for sure.
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Was there a certain car that you were
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attached to as a young boy? Since your
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granddad had some Corvettes, maybe that
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was the one that really kind of leaned
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your direction.
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Well, it was my uncle that had
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Corvettes. My granddad, he was big into
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El Caminos.
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Oh.
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He loved his El Caminos. And I remember
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growing up and I can still kind of smell
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the fabric in those cars on a hot Texas
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day, you know, it was really unique and
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I've always really loved the El Camino
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myself, too.
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That's really cool. Where did you go to
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school? What did you study and what is
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your degree in?
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Well, it's interesting story. I fell
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into theater in high school and really
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enjoyed that. Did a lot there and wanted
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to go into film. So, I went to the
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University of North Texas for a year
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until I realized I wanted to act in
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films. Oh,
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I auditioned. I got into Carnegie Melon
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University in Pittsburgh and transferred
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up there and had to start over as a
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freshman and was there for four years
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and graduated with a degree in drama.
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Very nice. Well, I tell you what,
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I'm your host, Steve Garrett. With me is
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the brand new director of collections
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and exhibitions at the National Corvette
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Museum, Robert Maxheimer. In this second
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segment, we're going to talk about
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Robert's work career. Robert, right out
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of school, you got your degree. What did
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you do right out of school?
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Well, you know, I was trying to pay the
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bills. I uh moved out to Los Angeles to
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become a big movie star. I fell into
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carpentry. I had a little background
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with that, working with my dad. I worked
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at a carpentry scenic fabrication shop
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there in the San Frernando Valley for
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about 4 years building traveling
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exhibitions and permanent museum
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exhibitions and installing them all over
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the world. That was a pretty fun gig. I
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left there when I was a production
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manager and then decided I needed to
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focus on acting again. So, I had a
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couple roles in some shows and couple
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films and realized pretty quickly that I
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needed a full-time job if I wanted to
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actually have a family, which was my
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ultimate goal. So, I got into the fine
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art handling installation world. So, we
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worked at Lakma and Betty and Mocha and
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a bunch of museums around Los Angeles.
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And one of our clients was Disney. Oh,
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and you worked at Disney for almost 10
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years. That had to be an exciting
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experience.
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It was. It was. I started working there
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right when I got married and we had our
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first child. So, working at Disney, I
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was a all-star dad. Got to bring home a
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lot of stuff and then we visited the
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park whenever we wanted to. But the job
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itself was pretty unique. I was at the
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Disney archives. Started as a curatoral
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associate. We oversaw the collections,
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the exhibitions, displays at the various
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parks and club 33s and things all over
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the world. When I started, we had a
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staff of about 10. And when I left,
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which was almost 10 years later, we were
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at like 32. So, it grew pretty rapidly.
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But it was a fantastic experience for
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sure.
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Boy, you had to love the perks as well.
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That had to be fantastic.
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Yes, it was.
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Now, your job with Disney was really
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multiaceted. You worked with business
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partners. You created worldwide exhibits
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which included Disney consumer products,
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also the Disney studios and the parks
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and resorts. Tell me a little bit more
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about all that. That sounds fascinating.
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Yeah, there really wasn't an exhibition
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program when we started. The archives
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was part of corporate and part of DCCR,
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which was our arm to help the rest of
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the company. So if somebody in Japan and
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consumer products needed help with
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something or they wanted an exhibit
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because they're rolling out a new
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princess line, they would reach out to
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us and we would pull things out of the
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archives, develop an exhibition, curated
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and then travel it through Japan. We did
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that there in Hong Kong and Taiwan, UAE,
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London. Eventually my wife got tired of
11:33
me traveling all the time. So I pitched
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the idea of why don't we do a domestic
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tour? you know, we're doing all this
11:39
work overseas, so we should try to
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develop something that we can travel
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here. And that's what we did. We built a
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catalog of about four exhibits that
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travel around the United States,
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including the Disney Hund exhibition,
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which is still traveling now.
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As a matter of fact, the Disney 100
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exhibition is here in Kansas City right
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now.
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That's right.
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Yeah, I'm dying to get down there and
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see that. That's really cool. So, you
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really were the spokesperson for the
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Disney archives, weren't you then? Yeah,
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I you know being the person kind of in
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charge of exhibitions, I would go out
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oversee the installation and then
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inevitably especially in Japan, there
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was a lot of press, a lot of autographs,
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which was very bizarre to me. It was a
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lot of fun. A company like Disney,
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people just love the brand. So, it was a
12:20
lot of fun talking to people, showing
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them new things from the archives. There
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weren't a lot of unhappy people. So, it
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was it was a lot of fun.
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That sounds like a lot of fun. Now,
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after you were at Disney, you went to
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the San Diego History Center. You were
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their manager of exhibitions and
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facilities there too.
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That's correct. Yeah. So when I was at
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Disney, I went to the Harvard Extension
12:42
School to get a certificate in museum
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studies just to kind of expand my
12:46
knowledge of museums and really fell in
12:48
love with nonprofits and everything that
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they do for communities. So that led me
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to make the hard decision to leave
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Disney and accept an offer at the San
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Diego History Center, which was a great
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introduction to working in a nonprofit.
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a lot different. It was a much different
13:04
pace, but the community, the staff,
13:07
everyone, it was all about the greater
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good, which is what I really, really
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loved. So,
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yeah, it it really sounds like all of
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your work career with the San Diego
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History Center and with Disney really
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laid the groundwork for your new
13:18
position there at the National Corvette
13:20
Museum, didn't it?
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Absolutely. Yeah. you know, you couldn't
13:23
script it any better going from Disney
13:25
and then to the San Diego History Center
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for a couple years just to kind of
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decompress and really learn the ins and
13:31
outs of working in a nonprofit. And then
13:34
when the National Corvette Museum
13:36
reached out and said they had a
13:37
position, obviously the transition from
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Southern California to Bowling Green,
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Kentucky can be a bit of a change,
13:45
especially for my wife who was born and
13:47
raised in La Hoya, California. But it's
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been a fantastic journey and like you
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said, it really laid the groundwork for
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where I am now.
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I want to talk about that. Let's take
13:56
our final break. Robert, when we get
13:58
back, I want to hear more about that
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because it's always a cool story to hear
14:02
how you got in contact with the National
14:04
Corvette Museum and how you got the job
14:06
that you're in right now. So, let's take
14:08
that final break. When we come back,
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I'm your host Steve Garrett. With me is
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the new National Corvette Museum
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director of collections and exhibits,
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Robert Maxheimer. In this final segment,
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we're going to talk more about his job
17:27
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these stories. Tell me the story about
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17:34
the National Corvette Museum and how you
17:36
got the job.
17:37
Yeah, well, it was a job that was posted
17:38
on LinkedIn. I wasn't necessarily
17:40
looking for a new position, especially
17:42
one outside of California, but it came
17:44
up. I've always had a fascination with
17:47
Corvette and from a 5,000 foot view,
17:49
just the brand and the folks that are
17:52
involved with Corvette. It remind me a
17:54
lot of Disney. So, I was really excited
17:56
the idea of working with people that
17:57
were really passionate about one
17:59
singular thing like the Corvette. So,
18:01
yeah, they reached out, we spoke about
18:03
it, and I talked it over with my wife,
18:05
and everything moved very quickly. I
18:06
think from the time that the job was
18:08
offered to when we were actually in a
18:10
house that we had just bought moved in,
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it was only a couple months.
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Wow. That is fast.
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Very fast.
18:15
Yeah. And like we said in the previous
18:17
segment, it really sounds like all your
18:20
job experience has led you to Bowling
18:22
Green almost. You're in charge of the
18:24
collections, the Corvettes. You're also
18:26
in charge of more than 50,000 Corvette
18:28
artifacts and exhibits. You've got a
18:30
good team working with you there at the
18:32
NCM. Tell me after all that, what was
18:34
like your first order of business once
18:36
you arrived at the National Corvette
18:38
Museum?
18:38
Well, it was a bit of a whirlwind coming
18:40
in obviously 2 months and trying to
18:42
adjust to a whole new town, a whole new
18:43
part of the country on a personal level.
18:45
Coming into the museum, I really wanted
18:48
to take a breath and get to know not
18:50
just the museum itself, but the staff,
18:52
what has been established here as far as
18:54
protocols and really try to identify
18:57
things that maybe I could help smooth
18:59
along as far as some challenges or
19:01
things that might have been here. and
19:02
getting to know the collection, becoming
19:04
more well-versed with Corvette and the
19:06
history of Corvette. So, that was kind
19:08
of the first six months. Now, it's about
19:10
implementing that change and having a
19:12
clear goal for the future.
19:13
Is there any area of the National
19:15
Corvette Museum that you felt needed
19:16
some immediate attention?
19:18
You know, I'll be honest. I came in, I
19:20
was very fortunate that a lot of the key
19:23
players have been put in place within
19:24
our library and archives. Our curator
19:27
who's on board here, Brian Gable, who's
19:29
fantastic. We have a registar who's also
19:31
comes from a long line of museum
19:33
background. It wasn't like coming into
19:36
something completely in shambles.
19:38
Everyone knew what they were doing.
19:39
Everyone was very passionate about what
19:41
they were doing. It was lucky for me
19:43
that I didn't have to come in and
19:44
immediately fix anything. It was more
19:46
about setting some clear objectives for
19:48
the immediate future and kind of long
19:51
term, too.
19:51
That's good to hear. What's your vision
19:53
for the NCM's exhibits and collections
19:56
as we move forward, Robert? Well, I
19:58
believe that the museum needs to mirror
20:01
what Corvette itself embodies, and
20:03
that's a constant change and pushing
20:06
themselves from a technological
20:08
standpoint, but also an aesthetic
20:09
standpoint of being the number one
20:12
sports car in the world. I think the
20:14
museum has the capability of being the
20:16
top automobile museum in the world. I
20:18
really believe that. As long as we keep
20:20
pushing ourselves and challenging
20:21
ourselves, we have the ability to
20:23
achieve that. You know, education is
20:25
something that I now oversee too. And
20:27
that's a big part of my passion. I think
20:29
that we have also the capability of
20:31
being the number one education
20:33
institution in Kentucky in this part of
20:35
the country. There's a lot going for us.
20:37
We're headed in the right direction. You
20:39
know, the exhibitions coming from
20:40
Disney. My whole thing was edutainment.
20:43
You know, you get people in the door.
20:44
They're already excited. You engage them
20:47
emotionally. Then you can engage them
20:49
intellectually. They kind of drop their
20:51
veil in a way and you're allowed to show
20:53
them something that maybe they wouldn't
20:55
have normally noticed. At Disney, it was
20:57
about animation. It was about costumes,
21:00
props, and here it's about the
21:02
automobile. It's not just Corvette. It's
21:04
the history of the automobile industry.
21:06
There's, like I said, technology, the
21:08
physics. There's just so many different
21:10
things that we could tap into.
21:12
Yeah, definitely. Now, you mentioned
21:13
this a little bit earlier, but coming
21:15
from La Hoya and Southern California,
21:17
how's it been? and transitioning over to
21:19
Bowling Green.
21:20
It's been really nice because we got
21:23
here, I think it was nine degrees, snow
21:25
on the ground. It was a little rough
21:28
there the first week, but what I've
21:30
noticed is people say it all the time,
21:31
you don't like the weather, just wait a
21:33
couple hours and it'll change.
21:34
Yep.
21:34
And that's true. But spring, all the
21:37
flowers came in, the trees bloomed, and
21:39
it's just been absolutely gorgeous. And
21:41
there is so much to do around here and
21:44
around Bowling Green and Kentucky and
21:46
Tennessee. my family and I, we've just
21:48
had a blast exploring all those places.
21:50
So, we're really, really enjoying it.
21:52
That's awesome. Well, Robert, thank you
21:54
for taking the time to be on Corvette
21:56
Today. Welcome to the National Corvette
21:58
Museum. We look forward to seeing you
22:00
real soon.
22:00
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