Wednesday Walk - The Titanic
Here is a walk through The Titanic exhibit for this #wednesdaywalk
As you enter they have a large scale model of the ship. Some of my projects at work involve building models like this and I bet this thing was super expensive to build at this scale.
It also looked like most of it was hand made rather than 3d printed. Lots of labor went into this thing. As this is a traveling exhibit I wonder if they even made backup parts as this thing was quite delicate looking.
Some theming made it look like you were boarding the ship near the entry. My designer brain is looking at the chains and hoping they are ADA compliant...
Now we are boarding the ship, what a nice cruise this will be...
Ah the good old days of smoking rooms, gentlemen only. No cancer for you ladies yet...
What a posh looking smoking room they had on the ship. Must have been tough trying to sweep the cigarette ashes out of the carpet.
The exhibit featured quite a few artifacts recovered from the wreck. Here are some tobacco products that made it off the bottom of the ocean.
Here is the grand staircase. I took a closer look at how they built the set and you can see how it all comes apart for travel to the next exhibit location.
I would not like to be traveling 3rd class on this thing. Bunk beds for everyone in very close quarters.
Here is the boiler room. The lighting and theming made you feel kind of sweaty in this area.
Here is a themed deck overlooking the sea at night. What a nice time to go out for a smoke and look across the ocean...
Oh look they were warned about icebergs, but the captain kept going forward instead of waiting until morning to continue on...
Kapow, now the ship has hit the iceberg and you get to sit in a themed lifeboat and watch the wreck go down.
And the band played on. I doubt this was a real artifact as the violin looked too pristine to have survived a wreck.
The rest of the exhibit was about how submarines recovered a number of artifacts from the bottom of the ocean. Fortunately these submarines were not 3d printed by billionaire hobbyists...
A drawing from the corny movie.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)
What a beautiful place you have visited, and how much history there is there.
I loved this exhibition, you have taken beautiful shots
Thank you very much dear friend @sketch.and.jam for sharing this experience with your visit
have a great day
It was a bit morbid at times, they give you a ticket at the start with a passenger name. Later you can check to see if you survived or not.
Oh. No, that is terrifying, if it is based on history, there will be few survivors
Fortunately around 1/4 of the people survived which is pretty bad but more than I thought survived from watching the movie about it a long time ago.
Ahhh, the legendary titanic!
I would still cry if you gonna let me watch again! Plus how handsome Leonardo back then?!😁
I was curious how much is the entrance fee to had that experienced?
I remember that movie was so long in the theater and I was waiting for the action at the end lol.
It was $25 usd we got a group ticket so it was cheaper. Normally it would be $33 per individual.
$25, wow that's around P1400 here,.kinda expensive but it given a chance, I would still go 😁
And what action?
Traveling exhibit prices are a bit high to cover the cost of setup and local venue rental space. It drew a fairlylarge crowd so hopefully it made a profit. The movie was one of the first to do elaborate cgi of the sinking, that's the part I was waiting for after the long drawn out romance lol.
Thats what she appears to be saying, putting it all out there 🙄
Cool exhibit, I think my relatives that came over from Europe probably would have been shoveling coal in that boiler room lol
My wife's relatives would have been in the shipyards in Ireland. My dad's side of the family might be trying to sink it with a uboat lol. Caption to that drawing was just "bewbs".
Something crazy, everyone knows this boat that sank even though there were so many others. It was a real tragedy at the time
I guess at the time it was the biggest luxury boat to sink. There was a boat that tipped over here in the river of Chicago with a higher death toll than the Titanic. I believe it was the SS Eastland.