My City July 2022

MYDOWNTOWN It’s bright! It’s fun! It’s engaging! It’s the new Sloan Museum

we are ready and we are all very excited to bring this to Flint.” e new Sloan Museum is a complete re-imagining of the former facility. “I think we have maybe two or three walls from the old layout still standing,” says Marketing Manager, Anne Mancour. “ e museum is entirely di‹erent and you would be hard-pressed to recognize any part of the old layout.” In 1966, the Sloan Muse um (named after longtime General Motors President, Alfred P. Sloan) was built as a local history and

and on July 16, its doors will be open for the world to behold its wonders. e project which began as an idea nearly seven years ago has come to completion … and the nal product is ab solutely astounding. “When I started almost eight years ago,” recalls Sloan Executive Director Todd Slisher, “one of the rst things I was asked was ‘what are you going to do about Sloan?’ Well, after years of commu nity input and fundraising,

TODD SLISHER SLOAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

automobile museum. Over the years, it has been used to educate local school children and host traveling exhibits. Nearly every resident remembers its dark hallways and narrow, main corridor; the new Sloan was designed to change that old atmosphere. e rst thing every visitor will notice is the brightness of the new building and the space – so much space! “We increased the space of the museum from 58,000 square feet to 107,000 square feet and built a spacious main walkway to make it easier

ANNE MANCOUR SLOAN MARKETING MANAGER

to move between galleries,” Mancour explains. e main (and per manent) attraction will be the centrally located Discovery Hall (science gallery). e focus of this much-anticipated exhibit is hands-on learning and discovery. Its features in clude an amazing and fun water table that teaches children about water-¡ow and natural forces, a large and interactive Spaceship Earth Globe exhibit, 

A PERMANENT ATTRACTION, THE WATER TABLE TEACHES CHILDREN (AND ADULTS) ABOUT THE FLOW OF WATER AND ALL IT CAN DO IN THE WORLD . . . AND IT’S SUPER FUN, TOO!

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