Titanic museum (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee)
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The Titanic Museum is a two-story museum shaped like the RMS Titanic. It is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
and opened on April 8, 2010. It is built half-scale to the original ship. Similar and likely to the one in Branson, Missouri
, the museum holds 400 pre-discovery artifacts in twenty galleries. It is the largest permanent Titanic museum in the world.
The structure is anchored in water to create the illusion of Titanic at sea, and the 2-hour, self-guided tour is designed to give guests the sensation of being an original passenger on Titanic’s 1912 maiden voyage.
As guests enter, they are given a passenger boarding ticket. On this ticket is the name of an actual Titanic passenger and the class they were traveling. Guests will learn the individual stories of several passengers. In the Titanic Memorial Room, they will find out whether their ticketed passenger survived.
The structure cost $25 million to build.
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
and opened on April 8, 2010. It is built half-scale to the original ship. Similar and likely to the one in Branson, Missouri
Titanic Museum (Branson, Missouri)
The Titanic Museum Attraction is a permanent two-story museum shaped like the RMS Titanic itself. It is located on Country Highway 76, Branson, Missouri and built half-scale to the original...
, the museum holds 400 pre-discovery artifacts in twenty galleries. It is the largest permanent Titanic museum in the world.
The structure is anchored in water to create the illusion of Titanic at sea, and the 2-hour, self-guided tour is designed to give guests the sensation of being an original passenger on Titanic’s 1912 maiden voyage.
As guests enter, they are given a passenger boarding ticket. On this ticket is the name of an actual Titanic passenger and the class they were traveling. Guests will learn the individual stories of several passengers. In the Titanic Memorial Room, they will find out whether their ticketed passenger survived.
The structure cost $25 million to build.