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The Sloan Museum of Discovery is a nonprofit, public hands-on and interactive discovery museum located within the

Flint Cultural Center The Flint Cultural Center (FCC) is a campus of cultural, scientific, and artistic institutes located in Flint, Michigan, United States. The institutions located on the grounds of the FCC are the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Music, ...

Flint, Michigan Flint is the largest city and seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States. Located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit, it is a principal city within the region known as Mid Michigan. At the 2020 census, Flint had a population of 8 ...

. The museum has four interactive primary galleries, including a hands-on earth sciences hall, an early childhood learning gallery, a local history gallery focusing on Genesee County and the Flint area, and an 11,000 square foot vehicle gallery featuring rare and historic vehicles built in Genesee County. The museum, named in honor of longtime

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chief executive officer Alfred P. Sloan, also operates rotating special exhibitions and celebrations.

Organization

As part of the Flint Cultural Center, the Sloan Museum of Discovery is closely affiliated with the Longway Planetarium. Both the Sloan Museum of Discovery and Longway Planetarium are part of the non-profit Flint Institute of Science and History. The two facilities share a common webpage www.SloanLongway.org. Other galleries display segments of the Sloan/Longway automotive collection, including horse-drawn wagons, carriages, horseless carriages, cars, engines, and car parts manufactured in and around Flint by General Motors and local competitors, such as Billy Durant's

Durant Motors Durant Motors Inc. was established in 1921 by former General Motors CEO William "Billy" Durant following his termination by the GM board of directors and the New York bankers who financed GM. Corporate relationships Durant Motors attempted t ...

. The role of the Flint auto industry on the

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

home front is extensively featured, with visual reminders of the U.S.

car culture Since the start of the twentieth century, the role of cars has become highly important, though controversial. They are used throughout the world and have become the most popular mode of transport in many of the more developed countries. In deve ...

that followed the war. The original Sloan Museum building, built in 1966, closed in 2018 for a major overhaul and expansion. Construction began in June 2019, and the expanded museum is set to open in 2021. Due to the construction, the Sloan Museum's public gallery is temporarily located in the

Courtland Center Courtland Center, formerly Eastland Mall, is an enclosed shopping mall in Burton, Michigan, a suburb of Flint, Michigan, United States. It opened in 1968, two years before the larger Genesee Valley Center on the other side of the Flint metropolit ...

shopping mall, in nearby Burton.

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