In one the rarest and saddest events that can happen in a museum, a giant sinkhole erupted at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, swallowing eight valuable Corvettes on display. The sizable sinkhole is said to be 40 feet wide and nearly 30 feet deep.

Fortunately for the museum, none of the cars damaged in the ordeal are owned by individuals, otherwise they’d be in for a mahoosive bill. Unfortunately, the sinkhole wolfed down so me pretty rare machinery, including 1962 Black Corvette; 1984 PPG Pace Car; 1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette; 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette; 1993 ZR-1 Spyder; 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette; 2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette; and 2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil”.

The Spyder and Blue Devil ZR1s are property of General Motors.

National Corvette Museum will be closed while they fixe the whole underneath the Skydome, and do some structural work to make sure it won’t happen again. They’ve also evacuated all the other cars, just in case. In the meantime, check out the event as it unfolded in these security camera footage:

Via Autoblog