Ponyman66
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Went with the wife and my daughter today to the state museum. The Titanic exhibit is on display for a few months. It's pretty neat to see and the cost wasn't bad. We paid $18 per person, which included the entrance to the general museum and to the exhibit. When you enter they give you a "passenger ticket". I guess it resembles and original ticket. On it is a single passenger name with their age, what "class" they were traveling, a little bio and and if they traveled with anyone on the ship. It also contains that passenger's original ticket number if they were able to identify it. At the end of the exhibit tour there's a large manifest list that has the passengers and crew names. If they were passengers then the list is divided into the passenger class. The lists are further broken down by casualties and survivors and are in alphabetical order. You can then take your "ticket" and locate the name on it to see if they survived. I believe they issued them to museum visitors by gender, e.g. female visitors got tickets with female passenger names and male visitors got male passengers. At least that's how ours worked out.
All of our "tickets" were for passengers traveling 3rd class. The passengers my wife and daughter got both survived, mine didn't. I figured that as soon as we got the tickets because most casualties overall were 3rd class travelers and notably mostly males. It's still a sad and eerie feeling though to look through the lists and find "your" passenger died.
The displays themselves are really cool, with some quit unbelievable items. It's amazing to see the delicate and fragile items that survived and were recovered. Some items, like a complete man's suit, were in remarkable condition. Sorry I couldn't post any pics. You were strictly forbidden to take photos of any kind, by camera or even cell phone. We were warned prior to entering and they had pretty tight security all through the exhibit. All of the cases were alarmed so that even touching the glass set them off. I guess several people didn't believe it. An alarm went off just as the museum person was warning us (as if on cue!), and they went off again as we were finishing the tour.
If the exhibit comes somewhere nearby I'd strongly recommend seeing it. It's really worth the time!
All of our "tickets" were for passengers traveling 3rd class. The passengers my wife and daughter got both survived, mine didn't. I figured that as soon as we got the tickets because most casualties overall were 3rd class travelers and notably mostly males. It's still a sad and eerie feeling though to look through the lists and find "your" passenger died.
The displays themselves are really cool, with some quit unbelievable items. It's amazing to see the delicate and fragile items that survived and were recovered. Some items, like a complete man's suit, were in remarkable condition. Sorry I couldn't post any pics. You were strictly forbidden to take photos of any kind, by camera or even cell phone. We were warned prior to entering and they had pretty tight security all through the exhibit. All of the cases were alarmed so that even touching the glass set them off. I guess several people didn't believe it. An alarm went off just as the museum person was warning us (as if on cue!), and they went off again as we were finishing the tour.
If the exhibit comes somewhere nearby I'd strongly recommend seeing it. It's really worth the time!
