Titanic museum (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee)
The Titanic Museum is a two-story museum shaped like the RMS Titanic. It is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and opened on April 8, 2010. It is built half-scale to the original ship. The museum holds 400 artifacts (licensed from Premier Exhibitions) in twenty galleries from the wreck of RMS Titanic. It is the largest permanent Titanic museum in the world.[1]
The structure is anchored in water to create the illusion of Titanic at sea, and the 2-hour, self-guided tour is designed to give guests the sensation of being an original passenger on Titanic’s 1912 maiden voyage.
As guests enter, they are given a passenger boarding ticket. On this ticket is the name of an actual Titanic passenger and the class they were traveling. Guests will learn the individual stories of several passengers. In the Titanic Memorial Room, they will find out whether their ticketed passenger survived.
The structure cost $25 million to build.[2]
References
- ↑ Sanati, Mercedeh (April 17, 2010). "THE GOODS / THE WEEKLY TRAVEL BUZZ" (in English). The Globe and Mail: pp. TRAVEL; Pg. T7. http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T9171430134&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T9171430137&cisb=22_T9171430136&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=303830&docNo=1. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
- ↑ "". Channel 4 News Today. NBC. Channel 4. April 11, 2010.
External links
- Titanic Pigeon Forge - official site
