THE National Motor Racing Museum will not open to race fans and the general public over the Great Race festival in an effort to ensure a COVID-safe event.
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The Bathurst 1000 period is typically a busy time for the museum, but it will be much quieter this year.
Manager Brad Owen said the museum will need to be closed for the four days of the event to conform to the COVID-safe plan Supercars has adopted.
"We are going to be closed for the Thursday through Sunday of the Bathurst 1000 weekend because of the Supercars COVID plan, but we will be extending our hours slightly before and after the event to hopefully get as many visitors as we can to visit the museum," he said.
He expects to make an announcement soon about other things planned to "keep a little bit of our business going over that period".
To help encourage visitation either side of the event, there are going to be some new additions to the floor.
Mr Owen said they recently got in a 1935 Riley Imp that raced at the Australian Grand Prix at Mount Panorama in 1947, and are about to add Dick Johnson's 1993 Ford Falcon that raced at Bathurst.
The NMRM still has the 2013 and 2016 Bathurst 12 Hour winners on the floor, along with the vehicles in the facility's permanent collection, including the wrecked Chaz Mostert Falcon.
"I think it's a great thing and people really love to see what happens when it all goes wrong and how the engineering keeps the driver safe," Mr Owen said.
