The National Corvette Museum is expanding.

Construction is underway on a new facility to house its growing collection of corvettes and other historic items.

Our Laura Rogers has more from Bowling Green.

I love cars, I'm a car guy for sure.

Michael LaRocca especially loves corvettes.

He has five of them.

They're big time.

So I've come here and driven home.

You know, of course.

And a new Corvette.

No small feat, considering LaRocca lives and New York City as a native New Yorker.

There's something different and refreshing coming.

A bowling green coming to see the museum.

The Corvette enthusiast and incoming board chair has pledged $500,000 for a new collections facility that will help the museum showcase twice as many cars as they do now a world class collections facility.

Very few places in the world have a facility at this level.

The museum's collection of cars and artifacts is growing, and the standards for preservation are high.

When someone gives you the car, you're doing all the things you can to make sure that car is going to be around for generations to come.

That includes protecting that car from extreme and changing temperatures.

It's bad for leather.

It's bad for dashboards.

We're going to make sure these cars are in an environment where that doesn't happen.

The new 66,000 square foot facility will house 120 cars on day one.

This historic Corvette will be one of the first in the new space.

We have some amazing cars in our collection, one that was just donated to us.

It's a 1967 Corvette Stingray that was driven by Neil Armstrong.

Yes, that Neil Armstrong years before he walked on the moon.

Armstrong was driving to NASA and style.

So there's a program where astronauts back in the Apollo era got to drive a Corvette for a dollar.

It is stories like this one that serve as the drive to preserve and conserve these cars and artifacts.

We want to tell more stories.

So everything that we try and do is educate people on the history and legacy of Corvette, and to share that history and legacy with future generations.

When someone walks in the building in 60 years and they see a car that was already 60 years old, it's going to look just like it did when it came down the line.

This museum's a special place that sort of, to me, the nucleus of a wonderful community, a community that's given more than $2 million to the capital campaign supporting the expansion on the Corvette campus.

So many friendships come through our passion for this car, a car that we all love, also becomes this magnet that draws us all together.

Museum says the new collections facility will become home to 240 cars over the next 30 years, so we can tell more stories.

Talk about more engineering and educate people on Corvette.

It's expected to be open to guests in early 2027.

For Kentucky edition, I'm Laura Rogers.

Also thank you Laura.

Aside from preservation and storage, the museum will also offer behind the scenes tours of the new building for guests wanting to see even more of the Corvette collection.