Titanic | The Century Anniversary

For the 100th Anniversary of Titanic I had the opportunity to visit the replica exhibition in Singapore. Over 300 artifacts were extracted from the ship for and the exhibition turned into a replica to make you feel as though you were actually walking through the Titanic. 

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Upon arrival each guests received a ticket before stepping on board. Each ticket holding a name of an actual passenger of the Titanic and at the end of the exhibition a wall filled with names to see if the person on you received on your boarding pass was one of the survivors out of 2,228 passengers. 

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My ticket held the name 'Miss Dorothy Winifred Gibson.' An actress boarding the ship with her mother New York bound to start another silent film production. 'Dorothy an actress in early motion pictures, was returning with her mother from holiday in Italy where she had rested after an exhaustive shooting schedule in March of 1912. She had been wired by her studio to return early and begin her next picture.' 

'When she boarded the Titanic Dorothy's suitcases were filled with silk kimonos, dozens of pairs of gloves, and fine jet beads'

The feeling on 'the ship' was absolutely amazing, eery, but amazing. So incredible how they replicated the third class halls, the deck adorning the outside of the ship (in which you stepped out from one of the passengers rooms through the exhibition onto the cold deck of the ship in which when you walked through the doorway thousands of stars were set aglow before you and I was astonished on how great of a job they had done on this room to create this. 

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One story still sticks with me. While walking through another one of the exhibits rooms there was a case displaying one of the crew member's shirts that waited on first class. One of the ships first class passengers was so set on someone stealing her things while everyone evacuated the ship (she did not think the ship would sink) that she insisted that he see to packing up all of her things, making sure that everything was packed up that he ended up dying. She, as a first class member able to be one of the first on the life boats. As you walk to this case after reading his story you see his shirt (sleeves lying out on both sides with his name written on the collar) laid out as if he were still lying there, they found his shirt lying like this in this women's room in first class. Still preserved as if it were lying in a closet. So absolutely amazing that it gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes. 

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Another amazing site - a replica of the Grand Staircase. The replica so spot on that when I walked into the room I pictured Jack (DiCaprio) kissing Rose (Winslet) on the hand. It was lovely.