The goal was to bring the collections and exhibits into the21st century, bring them up to museum standards, createmore interest to visitors, engage the younger generationwith technology, while being able to tell more of theCorvette story.

Derek Moore, Curator for the Corvette Museum knew hewanted touch screen interactive technology but did notwant visitors to be focused on the touch screens. Hewanted the artifacts, the high performance Corvette racingcars to be a focus. “The large almost perfectly roundgallery room almost screamed for large projection all theway around, something that would really catch your eye,”said Moore.

The National Corvette Museum partnered with GroupDelphi, a global museum exhibit company and the decisionwas to go with Optoma professional high-brightnessprojectors. In the Performance Gallery there are 11 classicCorvette cars, 11 Optoma ZU660 projectors and 11touchscreens set up in kiosks. Visitors, using the touchscreens, can control what they see on the projector infront of them, telling a story about that particular car, whatthe car did, about the driver and things like that. Thenevery fifteen minutes they have one “Big Experience”as all the screens blend together and all 11 projectorscreate one giant canvas where all the cars race aroundthe whole gallery as stories are told about the history ofthe performance cars and the racing teams.

Why did Group Delphi choose Optoma projectors? “That’s easy, we kind of always go with Optoma because we like theproduct,” said Eric Quintana, Director of AV Technology forGroup Delphi. “Optoma projection is amazing comparedto some of the other projector brands and with their largeassortment of available lenses, they always have the lensesthat are perfect for what is needed for our customers.”

With the new refreshed exhibits and the PerformanceGallery being the centerpiece, the National CorvetteMuseum is on track to break attendance records thisyear. “I think it’s spectacular”, said Bob Bubnis, AssociateCurator at the museum. “One of the things we like to do iswatch our guests interact with whatever displays we havegoing on and it is just amazing how people are attractedto the Performance Gallery and how much they enjoy it.”

Viewing the Performance Gallery has elevated how peoplefeel about the museum, it tells them the museum is movingin the right direction and people feel like they are gettinga modern cutting edge experience. “It is just fabulous towatch people both young and old digging into this andthat’s the big deal, the young kids go right to it,” saidBubnis.