Exhibits
The National Corvette Museum offer various temporary exhibits throughout the year. Below is some information on upcoming displays. If you are interested in displaying a vehicle which fits one of these exhibits, please visit our section on Displaying Your Car.
Exhibit Hall Displays
Kentucky: 225 Years on the Move
august 28, 2017 – MAY 31, 2018
Kentucky celebrates its 225th anniversary as a state in 2017, and to mark this milestone anniversary the Museum is featuring a transportation display spanning the last 225 years. The exhibit focuses on modes of transportation with ties to Kentucky.
Louis to LeMans: The History of Chevrolet Racing
JUNE 11, 2018 – JANUARY 4, 2019
The Museum’s Exhibit Hall has once again been transformed to feature a special themed display. For a period of about seven months, that theme focuses on Chevrolet racing history. The story of Chevrolet racing is told from the early days of Louis Chevrolet as a racing driver for Buick, through the AMA ban on racing, to Chevrolet Racing’s involvement in NASCAR, and the Le Mans winning Corvettes. Significant stories are told through the display of various cars and artifacts, from engines including one from a C5-R, and a fuel injection cutaway, to race suits and more. The exhibit will run until January 4, 2019.
On-Going Exhibits
Corvette Cave-In: The Skydome Sinkhole Experience
A semi-permanent exhibit to tell the story of our February 12, 2014 sinkhole in the Museum’s Skydome which swallowed eight Corvettes. Learn more here.
Generations Exhibit
Visit our Skydome to see a display featuring one Corvette of each generation, displayed together to illustrate comparisions and contrast of the changes in the car from year to year.
Rare Colors
The Skydome also plays host to a mini display featuring rare production colors of Corvettes.
Audio Tour
The Museum offers a complimentary audio tour that can be downloaded (or streamed) to any mobile device or MP3 player. Click the button below to access the full audio tour, or go to our Audio Tour page to access each stop in the Museum.
What’s In Your Museum
- Corvette Profiles – 2005 MVB Corvette “Number 61” While some Corvette owners treat their cars like royalty, driving them easy, and only in dry conditions, this cannot be said about all Corvette owners. Other Corvette owners daily their Corvettes, taking their Vettes through monsoons and snowstorms – like nothing can stop their Corvette driving experience. While these daily driver Corvettes may have taken a ...
- Corvette Profiles – The Last of the C3s The 3rd generation of the Corvette is the longest running generation to date, spanning 15 full years of production. The first production year of the 3rd generation, or C3 Corvette introduced many new features along with its new body style. The C3 came in both a convertible and a coupe for its first year, but ...
- Corvette Profiles – 1986 Corvette Indy Back in the mid-1980s, General Motors released one of the most technologically advanced cars ever created for its time; the Corvette C4. Upon release of the C4, the world was incredibly excited for what the car was capable of. In the 1980s, car design was like music of time. It was out with the old, and ...
- Corvette Profiles – 1957 Corvette Production Racer In the performance section of the National Corvette Museum, hundreds of thousands of visitors every year see examples of Corvette racing throughout the years. One of the earliest examples of Corvette racing, and one that is often overlooked due to how stock the racer looks cosmetically, is the 1957 #4 fuel injected Corvette. Upon first glance, this ...