Over 1500 people sank to their icy deaths while less than half that many people survived the destruction of the titanic. This Saturday I visited the Titanic Exhibit accompanied by its documentary film at the Science Museum in St Paul. According to the SyFy tv show, Ghost Hunters, the exhibit is haunted, but the only “cold spot” I felt was the giant slab of ice they have out to give people an idea of how cold it was in the water that fateful night. I watched the documentary film first in the omni theatre. Thinking of all that water made me a little scared of ever going on a ship in the ocean. I’ve always thought that drowning would be the worst way to die. I pondered a drowning scenario the other day after hearing of four girls from UND who drowned in their car after accidentally driving in a pond. Like the Titanic, the girls made frantic phone calls crying for help, but no one could find them in time. The Titanic’s sister ship came to the rescue for the Titanic, but it was too late.
The exhibit showed clothes, plates, models of rooms from the ship, tools, and actual parts of the ship itself. They gave a sense of what it was like on the ship with pictures and people’s personal stories along with their belongings. There are many tid-bits, facts, and stories I would like to share about the exhibit, but I recommend you see it for yourself. It’ll be at the Science Museum in St Paul until January.
I found the Titanic exhibit to be a bit more interesting than the last exhibit I went to see at that museum. It was Pompeii. The city that was preserved under a sea of lava ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in. Although fascinating, there were no stories about the people because there are no personal records from that time. The personal stories were my favorite parts of the Titanic exhibit. I would like to know about these people’s lives and see how different they are from my own.
Every time I get back from seeing an exhibit like this I have a strange urge to go to a library and research whatever I saw. I’m sure I wouldn’t find more than what was already shown to me at the exhibit, but in my mind I just can’t grasp the idea that it’s over. There has to be more about this to know.
