New York City isn’t quite ready for “Titanic: The Exhibition” to sail away.
A collaborative effort between Exhibition Hub, Musealia and Fever, “Titanic: The Exhibition” has yet again extended their successful run in Manhattan, giving you another opportunity to see the astounding collection before it travels to its next location.
Leave 2023 behind and explore the history behind a night in time that continues to grip imaginations around the world, more than 100 years after the sinking of the “unsinkable” ship.
This exhibit features life-sized replicas of the Titanic, including a reconstructed hallway that leads to the first-class cabins and third-class passenger bunks, allowing you to slip into the depths of history. The free audio tour guides you through this internationally-known exhibit, lasting about 80- to 90-minutes — with the replay feature, however, you can take as much time as you like.
See letters with delicately penciled cursive on White Star Line stationary, the necklace that inspired Rose’s “Heart of the Ocean” in James Cameron’s “Titanic,” a deck chair complete with a then-complimentary White Star Line blanket and so much more. Jewelry, clothes, tools used to build the Titanic — all incredible artifacts that you could normally only see in documentaries.
The curator of “Titanic: The Exhibition,” Claes-Göran Wetterholm, is one of the foremost authorities on the ship and its history. He has taken four trips to the resting site of the Titanic throughout the 1990s, and has authored multiple books over his 40-plus-year career, according to the website.
“Titanic: The Exhibition” is located at 526 6th Ave. just a couple of blocks away from Union Square Park.
General admission tickets start at $35 for those over 13 years old with senior, military and student discounts available. VIP tickets start at $45 for those over 13 years old. Tickets for children from ages 4 to 12 start at $23. For more information about tickets, click here.
More about the RMS Titanic
One of three sister ships, the Titanic was often to referred as “unsinkable” in its day by those who built it and those who voyaged on it. According to History, the construction of the Titanic began in 1909 and was the second of the White Star Line’s “Olympic” line of ships, known for its luxury and size.
From the start, the Titanic’s title of “unsinkable” was flawed. Though the watertight bulkheads could be individually controlled from the bridge of the Titanic and were hailed as state of the art, “the walls separating the bulkheads extended only a few feet above the water line, so water could pour from one compartment into another, especially if the ship began to list or pitch forward.”
But that wasn’t the only fatal error on the behalf of the Titanic: Even the movie “Titanic” brought up the lack of lifeboats, which couldn’t hold half of the ship’s population of over 2,000.
Four days into the maiden voyage of the Titanic ended in tragedy when the ship hit a large iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912. The ship split in two by the force of the water cleaving it apart. By 2:20 a.m., April 15, 1912, both pieces of the ship had disappeared into the depths of the Atlantic. Only 705 people survived. They were heading to New York City.
The ship would remain undiscovered 700 nautical miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, for decades. However, on Sept. 1, 1985, Robert Ballard’s expedition found the two pieces of the famous ship with a submersible over 13,000 feet down in the Atlantic Ocean, as per Britannica.
The first 8K footage of the wreckage of the Titanic was retrieved during a 2022 OceanGate expedition, as seen above.
The mystery of the location of the Titanic had been solved — But the mystery of the unusual sonar readings near the Titanic only just came to an interesting conclusion this month.
The New York Post reported that in previous sonar recordings of the wreckage and the area surrounding it, it appeared that there was seemingly another wreckage of a ship not far away from the resting place of the Titanic. The sonar readings of this mysterious wreckage had higher wavelengths than that of the Titanic, implying that this wreckage was much larger than that of the two pieces of the Titanic (keep in mind that the Titanic and her sister ships were the largest ships crafted at the time).
However, during a recent OceanGate expedition, the divers found that the sonar images weren’t another ship wreckage, but instead a massive volcanic reef. The reef, despite its deep water conditions, is filled with various thriving corals and other sea creatures.
But if your dream is to see the Titanic’s wreckage in all of its glory, your time is running out.
CBS News reported that the Titanic is disappearing due to underwater conditions, and estimates it will only be a matter of decades until it is unrecognizable.
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