Corvette Museum finishes expansion, facelift

Museum boasts new gift shop, library, cafe, indoor track and more

	The National Corvette Museum recently unveiled a $10 million addition and a renovation.
National Corvette Musuem

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updated 1:12 p.m. ET June 22, 2009

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - The National Corvette Museum has gotten a facelift.

The museum recently unveiled an addition and a renovation that came with a $10 million price tag.

Museum Executive Director Wendell Strode told the Daily News of Bowling Green that such an expansion was unthinkable 15 years ago when the facility first opened.

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Construction began in November 2007. Now, a year and a half later, the museum measures a total of 115,000 square feet.

The museum boasts a new gift shop, a library and archives center, a conference center, The Corvette Cafe and Corvette Boulevard, which is an indoor track where new Corvettes are displayed.

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