Chris Woodyard

USA TODAY

You'd think a giant sinkhole that sucks up a display of eight vintage Chevrolet Corvettes might also have sunk the fortunes of the museum in which they are housed right along with it.

But that's not the case for the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky. In fact, it's going to promote the mini-disaster that struck two years ago.

To commemorate the sinkhole's anniversary, the museum opened a special exhibit on Friday. Even though the sinkhole has been filled in and the cars repaired, the museum wants to tell the story of how it happened and how the museum dug itself out of what might have been a nightmare.

The museum's closed-circuit security cameras caught the disaster as it unfolded in the middle of the night. Plus, the museum was careful to document the restoration of the cars. Then there's the sinkhole itself. The exhibit will explain sinkholes and how they form naturally.

The museum's sinkhole was filled in, but the museum says it has a "cave" and a manhole cover.

All in all, museum officials say the sinkhole proved to be a boon to news media coverage and visits to the museum. People just wanted to come and see it for themselves.

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Now it may be gone, but it's certainly not forgotten.