Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit
At The Pacific Science Center
By Dan Larsen, for SeattleInsider.com
Originally published by Cox Interactive Media

You've seen the movie, you've watched the documentaries ... now experience the tale of Titanic up close and personal.

Taking up more than 12,000 square feet of mooring space in the Pacific Science Center for its first stop on the West coast, this behemoth exhibit offers the largest collection of Titanic artifacts ever displayed in one location. Including a 15-ton section of the Titanic's hull, the exhibit will take the visitor on a visceral trip back to the days preceding and including the fateful iceberg collision on April 14th, 1912. Famous rooms are recreated, like the luxurious grand staircase so prominently featured in the James Cameron film; detailed displays of the ill-fated evening recall how the whole event went down (so to speak); a local section explains the impact the Titanic disaster had on Seattle and the Northwest; there's even a giant slice of touchable iceberg for visitors to receive a tangible Titanic experience like that which led to the end of 1,523 lives -- actually four degrees warmer than the icy temperatures of the Atlantic Ocean.

It all but sends visitors flailing from an up-ended exhibit to meet their deaths in an ice-cold pool of salt water with nary a lifeboat in sight.

As an additional experience, there is also "Titanica," the excellent 40-minute IMAX movie, shot by filmmaker Stephen Low during a 1991 expedition to the sunken giant. Tickets are $6.75 for adults, $5.75 for kids (3-13) and seniors (65+). Call (206) 443 IMAX for show times.

For more infomation on this "unsinkable" exhibit, visit the Web site at titanicseattle.com.

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