Titanic artifacts exhibit an amazing adventure
- On 21/12/2009
- In Famous Wrecks
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By Amy Robinson - Sunday Gazette Mail
When I was in the third or fourth grade, I purchased Robert Ballard's "Exploring the Titanic: How the Greatest Ship Ever Lost Was Found" at a school book fair, thus beginning my interest in the Titanic. In fact, for several years, I wanted to be a marine archaeologist and go on expeditions like Ballard.
So when I found out that my family vacation this fall would include a day in Las Vegas, where the Luxor Hotel houses "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition," I was very excited.
This was the chance to see in real life what I'd only seen in pictures.
Your experience starts before you even enter the exhibit hall, when the ticket taker hands you a "boarding pass." On the back, there is a profile of a Titanic passenger.
At the end of the exhibit is a memorial that lists all the ship's passengers. You can see what your fate is.
I was first-class passenger Margaret Brown -- aka The Unsinkable Molly Brown, so I knew from the start that I survived. We learned at the end that, of my family, my sister survived but my parents perished.
Robert Ballard Titanic America
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