Exhibits from the deep
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October 16, 2010, Saturday
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THE legend of the Titanic lands in London next month with an exhibition featuring 14 new artefacts from the sunken transatlantic liner and video footage from the site of the wreck.
"Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition" opens in November at the 02 Arena, and focuses on the human stories behind the liner's 1912 collision with an iceberg that killed 1,517 people.
The exact location of the sunken ship was a mystery until 1985, when it was discovered several hundred miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Scientists from RMS Titanic Inc, the only company permitted to recover objects from the wreck, launched a mission this summer to map the entire wreckage site for the first time.
The exhibition will display footage of RMS Titanic's expedition, along with relics like -perfume bottles from a manufacturer traveling to New York to hawk his wares and the pocket watch of a rich passenger.
"On that night in 1912, more than 1,500 passengers met the same fate, no matter what their class or place in society, a shocking end to what was a joyous journey," said Cheryl Mure, vice president of education for RMS Titanic.
The exhibition will display more than 300 artefacts in all, as well as recreations of the ship's rooms, and galleries showing how the sinking of the liner resonated in London at the time.
The RMS Titanic was the world's largest passenger steamship when it set sail from Southampton, England to New York on its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. Four days into the trip, the ship crashed into an iceberg and sank, shocking the world.
"Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition" opens in November at the 02 Arena, and focuses on the human stories behind the liner's 1912 collision with an iceberg that killed 1,517 people.
The exact location of the sunken ship was a mystery until 1985, when it was discovered several hundred miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Scientists from RMS Titanic Inc, the only company permitted to recover objects from the wreck, launched a mission this summer to map the entire wreckage site for the first time.
The exhibition will display footage of RMS Titanic's expedition, along with relics like -perfume bottles from a manufacturer traveling to New York to hawk his wares and the pocket watch of a rich passenger.
"On that night in 1912, more than 1,500 passengers met the same fate, no matter what their class or place in society, a shocking end to what was a joyous journey," said Cheryl Mure, vice president of education for RMS Titanic.
The exhibition will display more than 300 artefacts in all, as well as recreations of the ship's rooms, and galleries showing how the sinking of the liner resonated in London at the time.
The RMS Titanic was the world's largest passenger steamship when it set sail from Southampton, England to New York on its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. Four days into the trip, the ship crashed into an iceberg and sank, shocking the world.
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