Upon entering the exhibition, each guest is given a White Star Line boarding pass containing the name and story of an actual Titanic passenger.
Titanic: the Artifact Exhibition is a collection of over two hundred artifacts recovered from the final resting place of the RMS Titanic, 3,800 meters below the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean. These objects are chosen and displayed in a way that tells the true, compelling story of the world's most famous Ship.
The story of Titanic has been told and retold, but never more poignantly and passionately than by the artifacts presented in this exhibition. Painstakingly recovered from the debris field surrounding the wreck and artfully conserved, these three-dimensional objects, more than words and images, represent the vessel and the 2,228 souls who journeyed with her into history.
CONSTRUCTION GALLERY - with its wood planked floor and brick colored walls, this environment puts the visitor at the famed Harland and Wolff shipyards in the early 1900s. Here, the story of the conception, design and construction of the Titanic is told. Artifacts displayed relate to Ship's construction and may include one of Titanic's fairleads. Over dinner one July evening in 1907, J. Bruce Ismay, Managing Director of the White Star Line, and Lord James Pirrie, Chairman of the shipbuilding company, Harland & Wolff, conceived the idea of building two lavish vessels - The Olympic and the Titanic.
DEPARTURE GALLERY - This gallery immerses the visitor in the excitement and optimism as Titanic departs Europe on her maiden voyage. Steamer trunks, leather suitcases, wood crates and mailbags sit on the dock ready to be loaded. Titanic's passengers and crew are first introduced to the visitor. Artifacts displayed may include a leather suitcase and paper baggage tags. Majestic and powerful, the Titanic slipped her mooring lines and left Southampton, England on April 10, 1912. After stops in Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland, she headed west across the North Atlantic for New York
PASSENGER GALLERY AND FIRST CLASS CABIN- Here, meet Titanic's passengers and crew. Share in their personal stories and learn of their reasons and expectations for traveling to America. Also included is a full scale recreation of a first class cabin. The featured artifacts in this gallery include currency, crystal, and various personal effects. The Titanic was more than an epic of steam and steel. It is a story of her passengers, from first class millionaires to third class immigrants, who displayed incredible acts of courage, self-sacrifice, and heroism
THIRD CLASS - Now view Titanic, as most did, as a third class passenger. As you journey to the end of the long third class corridor you view a recreation of a third class cabin and feel the rumble of Titanic's boilers. The emigrant third-class passenger was enticed by the White Star Line to travel on their vessels by being promised that "the interval between the old life and the new is spent under the happiest possible conditions
THE BRIDGE - Visitors walk across a recreation of Titanic's Bridge and see one a Telegraphs used to relay commands to the engine room as well as Titanic's compass."Iceberg right ahead" spoke Lookout Fredrick Fleet at 11:40pm April 14, 1912. On the bridge, First Officer Murdock gave the order to spin the wheel "hard a starboard." The Titanic eased left missing a head on collision with the iceberg but below the water line the damage was being done.
ICEBERG GALLERY - Ahead of the visitor is the iceberg made of real ice the visitor is encourage to touch. The waters of the North Atlantic are colder than this ice then night the great Ship sank. Objects in this gallery include one of Titanic's telegraphs and a pair of binoculars. "Looming out of the calm night on 14 April 1912, a minute was all the time needed to rip open the side of the huge Ship and doom some 1500 people; and, crack the complacency of the civilized world."
MEMORIAL GALLERY - This gallery provides a listing of all 2200 names of those who were lost and those who were saved. The visitor finds the name on their boarding pass on this Memorial Wall. "I have bought two or three papers a day in the hopes of seeing his name among the saved, but in seems that I shall never see him again" - Mother of D.E. Saunders Saloon.
MEMORIAL GALLERY, Personal Stories - Personal artifacts belonging to passengers Franz Pulbaum, Howard Irwin, and Marian Meanwell are exhibited here as well as first-class passenger Adolphe Saalfeld's perfume vials.From recovered artifacts and painstaking research, many personal stories of passengers and crew have emerged. Many of theses are told on the walls of the Memorial Gallery.
DISCOVERY GALLERY - In the final gallery, visitors experience diving the wreck of Titanic and surveying the debris field. Objects include a section of Titanic's hull recovered in 1998. This gallery provides history and information regarding the discovery, recovery and conservation of Titanic. The wreck of the Titanic lies 323 nautical miles southeast of Newfoundland in 3800 meters of water. It was discovered on September 1, 1985.
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