"Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit"

[Prins Willem]

In Wednesday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel there was a article on the "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit" coming to Milwaukee Public Museum in October 2008. I looked it up online and it is currently at the Tropicana Casino/Hotel in Las Vegas.

Has anybody seen this exhibit? I don't know how long it has been touring or where it has been. Maybe one of you on the other side of the Rockies would run down to Vegas and check it out, then give a report? Tell your wife it is a educational field trip. :rolleyes:

[tsenecal]

are there two of these running?

i ask because I plan on going to this one in about a month...

http://www.dmns.org/main/en/General/Exhibitions/CurrentExhibitions/titanic.htm

[Prins Willem]

I'm confused. Denver Museum of Nature & Science has it listed as a current exhibit with dates from June 22, 2007 to January 6, 2008. Tropicana Hotel has it on their website but with no dates listed. I just went into the Tropicana website from a different direction and the special events page is empty. I must originally have hit a old page. Your would think a big outfit would be more meticulous in keeping their site current.

I would guess that the exhibit is currently at DMNS but I would give them a call or e-mail just to make sure.

I would be interested in your opinion of the exhibit.

Bill

[tsenecal]

I just went for the second time to the one here in denver.

I discovered after talking with one of the docents that there are 4 simultaneous shows going on across the country. One of the four appears to be a permanent show in Vegas.

I highly recommend going to anyone even remotely interested in seeing it.

found the website for the exhibit company:

http://www.rmstitanic.net/

[toesup]

I'm with Mr Ballard on this one...

The 'site' is the last resting place of some 1500 souls and should never of been desecrated..

:(

[Brooks]

I'm not with Ballard - seems to me he got to go down, but does not want anyone else to see what happened (unless they are a professional oceanographer...which I was, btw). If they are displaying bones, then bad taste, quit it...but display of the physical pieces of the wreck does not bother me. Just my opinion, not meaning to disparage anyone else's.

[toesup]

I'm not with Ballard - seems to me he got to go down, but does not want anyone else to see what happened ...
..Just my opinion, not meaning to disparage anyone else's.

No problem Brooks.. we are all entitled to our opinions, thats what makes the world an interesting place :)

Ballard took many hours of film allowing people to view what Titanic looks like on the sea bed, and i think others have been down there to film the current state of the wreck without removing any items.

[jeepers1940]

I'm in agreement with Brooks.

[Prins Willem]

I am of two minds on recovering artifacts from wrecks. Here in the Great Lakes many wrecks have been plundered (I mean plundered) by sport divers to the point where there is little left. The Great Lakes States and Canadian Provinces have enacted strong laws with harsh penalties for removal of artifacts. I am in favor of collecting some artifacts for archaeological study, preservation of significant items, and interpretation and commemoration of the wrecks history.

At the same time these are grave sites and should be treated as such. Even many of the wrecks visited by sport divers off Milwaukee are tombs for the crews. The carferry SS Milwaukee is a very popular dive site. None of her crew survived the sinking.

I am not in favor of any for profit commercial exploitation. To my mind it is no better than grave robbing. The search for knowledge and understanding is one thing, the search for the pot of gold is something else. If something is important enough the funding to to preserve it for posterity will be found ( i.e. USS Monitor turret, CSS Hunley).

In the words of Chevy Chase "That's just my opinion, I could be wrong".

[yacht boy]

Just came across this post.
I went to the official exhibition when it was in Victoria BC.
Several people in costume with good scripts.
Lots of rooms made up in the style of the ship.
Lots of pictures and posters explaining the pictures. I'm sure you can get the info from many places.
Not so many artifacts.
Lots of nick nacks to seperate you from your money.

Overall, very expensive 3 hr walk. My wife loves this kind of thing and had a great time.
I could have given it a miss.

[Prins Willem]

I went to the Titanic exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum today. It was a very interesting and well executed exhibit. i have seen the movies and documentaries, and read several books on Titanic, but it was always an abstract concept, kind of like unicorns or honest politicians. Seeing actual parts of the ship and items from the the passengers allows my mind to accept the reality of the vessel and the people. As I said in post #9 I am of two minds on wreck salvage. In this instance the artifacts do allow those viewing them to make a connection to the ship. One particularly impressive artifact was the door from the entry on D deck where the first class passengers boarded. Astor, Strauss, and Guggenheim walked past that door. I'm glad I went.

[fooman2008]

there is ghosts of the deep type thing here at the museum of Idaho in Idaho Falls, Idaho and while I haven't been to see it yet I have heard the exhibit is great. It is supposed to be here through the first of October 09. My parents always take us to see what is in the museum when they come for my daughter's birthday in Sept, and we are eagerly looking forward to going to see this one!
Foo

[Olscuzbut]

I also took in the exhibit in Victoria BC museum. A lot of interesting info that I hadn't heard about before. Thought it was interesting when they issued you a card as you enterered with the name of a passenger of the Titanic and what your background was. Near the end of the exhibit, they had a list of all the passengers and then you had to go thru the list to see if your character survived or drowned. I survived, but my wife is still down there in the cold deep.

[Vince Hoffmann]

I love the scale model of the remote submersable, its a work of art! I got to inspect it close up when the show was here in San Francisco about 2 years ago.

[Prins Willem]

In a family connection to the ship an elder sister of my uncle (by marriage) named Maude Sincock was on the Titanic returning from England to Hancock, MI. She survived. I found an interview with her on a website called Encyclopedia Titanica some years ago.

[fooman2008]

Prins Willem,
I saw that interview when the exhibit got here on local television! I believe she is/was the last survivor.

Olscuzbut,
This is the same exhibit one of the people I work with said they did the same thing when they went it last week!

None of that class ever had much luck, Britannic hit a sea mine in WWI as a hospital ship in the Aegean, even the half sister Olympic seems to have hit just about everything afloat at one time or another. I have read that pert of the maneuvering problems with them was the triple screw arrangement with center screw designed for high speed cruising. Never have been a big fan of triple screws (Bismark was another).
Foo