The new “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” at the Great Lakes Science Center opens May 21 and features more than 200 authentic artifacts recovered from the Titanic wreck site.
Visitors can walk through recreations of first-, second-, and third-class hallways and learn about the timeline of the Titanic’s tragic sinking.
Guests can also explore interactive experiences that introduce them to the ship’s real passengers, including touch screens and boarding passes, an audio tour, and a virtual reality experience that places visitors inside the ship and aboard a lifeboat during the sinking.
“You’ll have a VR experience where people can see what the ship looked like in 1912, when it was brand new,” says Tomasina Ray, President of RMS Titanic Inc. “These room recreations, where you can see the full scale ship, parts of what it would look like, and walk through and enter history that way.”
The Science Center’s DOME Theater will also feature Voices of the Titanic, using passenger accounts to tell the story of the voyage.
“Titanic has something for everyone,” Ray says. “Whether kids are interested in engineering, whether they’re interested in expeditions, whether they’re interested in history or just people. Titanic cuts across nationalities, classes. It cuts across engineering and steamships. It cuts across exploration and expeditions.”
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