A Kid-Sized Welborn Dealership Opens Inside the Children's Museum of Rome

Welborn GMC of Cartersville - A Kid-Sized Welborn Dealership Opens Inside the Children's Museum of Rome

Northwest Georgia families have a new place to spend an afternoon together, and we are proud to say there is a little piece of Welborn inside it. The Children's Museum of Rome is now open at Mount Berry Mall, and Welborn Automotive Group had the opportunity to contribute an exhibit of its own. For our team at Welborn GMC Of Cartersville, it is a project that feels close to home, even though it sits a short drive up the road from our showroom on South Dixie Avenue.

A Museum Built Around the Community

The Children's Museum of Rome is a nonprofit, hands-on space where children learn by doing. Instead of looking at displays from a distance, kids step into kid-sized versions of the careers and industries found throughout the Rome area. They get to try on different jobs, ask questions, and see how the places their families visit every week actually work.

That idea is what drew us in. A community is made up of people who do many different kinds of work, and a child who gets to pretend today may find something they love doing tomorrow.

Inside the Welborn Automotive Exhibit

Our contribution is a pint-sized dealership, complete with the Welborn Automotive Group sign across the top. When our team visited, these were the details that stood out:

• The service bay: A bright red car sits raised on a lift, with a rolling creeper underneath so kids can slide under and take a look like a technician would.
• The sales entrance: A red-framed doorway welcomes young visitors into the showroom side of the exhibit.
• The express lane: A third storefront rounds out the building, just like a real dealership with more than one department.
• Learning signs: Kid-friendly facts explain how vehicles work, including how a car's computer acts like its brain.

Even the little red car wears a Welborn badge on the back, the same way a vehicle does when it leaves one of our lots.

Why It Matters to Our Family

Welborn Automotive is a family-owned, fourth-generation business. Many of the people who work in our stores are raising children and grandchildren in the same communities we serve, from Cartersville and Acworth to Adairsville and Rome. Supporting a space created for local kids and their families is especially meaningful to us because those families are our neighbors.

We did not get involved to sell anything. We got involved because a place where children can explore, imagine, and learn is good for the whole region, and we are grateful to have been invited to be part of it.

If you are looking for something to do with the kids on a weekend, the museum is well worth the trip from Bartow County. When you get to the little dealership with the red car on the lift, we hope it makes your family smile.

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