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On a calm, clear night in April 1912, the “unsinkable” sank in the freezing cold water of the North Atlantic and a legend was born. Pieces of personal histories tell the tale in Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit, featuring hundreds of artifacts recovered from the Titanic wreck site, on display at Omniplex in Oklahoma City, beginning November 22 and continuing through July 6, 2003.
Five galleries take visitors on a chronological journey through the life of the Titanic, from the building of the legend, which took 1500 men more than three years to complete, to life on board, featuring authentically recreated first and third class rooms, with furnishings made by original manufacturers. Guests also glimpse a typical day aboard the great vessel by strolling through the Veranda Café, one of the dining areas on the ship. In "The Striking" gallery, guests can touch an "iceberg" and feel for themselves what it must have been like in the water most passengers on the ill-fated vessel found themselves in that April night. Lastly, exhibit guests see the technology and artistry it takes to recover these items from 2.5 miles below the ocean's surface and to preserve them for future generations. “Titanic:
The Artifact Exhibit is the largest traveling exhibit ever to come
to Oklahoma. Exhibit hours are Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Advanced
reservation general admission tickets can be purchased by calling
1.866.602.SHIP. Group rates are available by calling 1.800.532.7652.
For more information, please call 405.602.OMNI or visit www.omniplex.org. Current
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The
Titanic, the ship of dreams, was conceived in 1907 and met with disaster
in 1912; a brief existence fraught with the drama of a Greek tragedy.
It was lauded as the greatest ship in history. On board were titans
of commerce, leaders of countries, artists, immigrant dreamers, mothers,
fathers, sons and daughters. The story of Titanic has been told and
retold, but never more poignantly and passionately than by the artifacts
presented in this exhibition. Painstakingly recovered from the debris
field surrounding the wreck and artfully conserved, these three-dimensional
objects, more than words or images, represent the vessel and the 2,228
souls who journeyed with her into history.