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Up Close and Personal With the Titanic
Artifacts bring history’s most famous sunken ship to life
The ill-fated Titantic
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Seeing is believing, and attending Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition in Discovery Times Square Exposition puts you up close and personal with pieces of history’s most famous sunken ship. The exhibit, featuring artifacts, first-hand accounts and ship replicas from the Titanic, connects museum-goers with the 1912 tragedy.
The exhibition offers visitors a first-hand look at more than forty never-before-seen artifacts, discovered during a excavation diving following the luxury liner’s 1985 re-discovery, range from three-foot-wide gears to bottle still containing cooking oil to postcards and jewelry. The items serve to humanize and personalize the learning experience for visitors, especially when collections of possessions are identified as belonging to specific boarders. A full set of bottles, instruments and notes are found next to the story of a perfume maker who boarded the Titanic after visiting Europe for work. The collection, found more than 12,000 feet below the ocean surface, serves as a tangible connection to the history of both the ship itself and the people who perished on it.
The replicas the museum has created are also awe-inspiring. A third-class passage room, first-class state room and the Grand Ballroom’s ornate staircase allow visitors to absorb the look and feel of the ship, and also remind them of the differing experiences of its boarders. Details such as the difference between plates from which each class ate (collections of each are featured) and the menus from which they chose are painstakingly revealed.
More information and tickets at discoverytsx.com.