Titanic Artifacts Exhibit

Mar 24, 2007 02:03:13

For approximately 10 years, the Education Department at Cincinnati Museum Center has provided teachers, students and the general public with innovative, stimulating, thought-provoking programs that create the opportunity to discover more about local history and natural history, as well as child development. They have a comprehensive programming list which provides many options for students and teachers, and our special exhibits and films create an ever-changing experience for all. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition Now through May 6, 2007 Cincinnati Museum Center brings back Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. Since it last showed in Cincinnati, the exhibit has been re-designed to focus on compelling human stories as told through more than 300 new artifacts and more extensive room re-creations. The exhibit is a chronological journey through life on the Titanic. Each visitor becomes a passenger and feels the excitement of that April day as they step into authentically recreated First and Third Class Cabins and view actual artifacts recovered from Titanic’s debris field. Unique personal effects include postcards from doomed passengers such as Edgar Andrew, who wrote, “I am boarding the greatest steamship in the world, but I don’t really feel proud of it at all, right now I wish the Titanic were lying at the bottom of the ocean.” In the Memorial Room, visitors learn about the aftermath of the disaster, the relief funds and the efforts to find over 1,500 lost loved ones. Visitors feel the temperature drop, learn details of the sinking, touch an iceberg and understand the theories of this tragic tale.