On June 25, members on the board for the National Corvette Museum decided to keep a portion of the sink hole that opened up in the floor of the museum early this year.
When the sinkhole first appeared under the Corvette Museum in Kentucky this past February, there seemed as if there was nothing to gain from the accident but destruction. Numerous Corvettes were damaged according to NBC News, including a 1992 white 1 millionth Corvette and a 1962 black Corvette.
However, the spectacle of the sink hole has brought new success for the museum, as people who may not have been drawn by pristine cars are drawn to the site of a disaster, fittingly similar to the way eyes are drawn to car accidents.
The museum is more heavily visited than ever, with attendance up by 59 percent this March when compared to last March, as reported by The New York Times.
This leaves the museum in a predicament with the sink hole: to fill or not to fill? The museum board chose the middle path, preserving a small portion of the sink hole that will be about 25 by 45 feet and 30 feet deep as was reported by the New York Times.
Executive director of the museum, Wendell Strode stated, as reported by the New York Times, “We have to look at creative ways to generate interest in the museum. It would be so much easier to just be a regular automotive museum with our Corvettes on display, but we have to think outside the box.”