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Titanic Exhibition

Since the Titanic disappeared below the waters on 15th April 1912 it has captivated the world. Almost a hundred years later, its true story reaches Valencia through objects, images and documents.

Titanic the Exhibition, a lively display with different complementary acts and activities, reaches Valencia after passing through various cities around the world. The exhibition is located in the lower part of L'Umbracle and will form part of the exhibition offer of the Science Museum for a year.

The exhibition occupies a surface area of more than 3,000 square metres and houses objects that until now have not been on exhibit in any other place such as the automobile-boat-bus that had to transport the Titanic on its return journey, the medal that Molly Brown gave to the captain of the Carpathia - the rescue boat that saved the survivors - as a present, or the tuxedo of the Spanish multi-millionaire Víctor Peñasco. Moreover, the exhibition also has an iceberg of some two metres in height by seven metres wide, the largest to be put on exhibit to date. Millvina Dean, one of the two survivors of the shipwreck still alive, attended the inauguration.

Since the moment in which, on 15th April 1912, it disappeared below the waters, the history of the Titanic has captivated the world and the discovery of its remains did nothing more than increase this fascination and curiosity for everything surrounding the sinking of what was known as ‘the ship of dreams' and that was conceived with the most modern techniques of the beginning of the century.

Titanic the Exhibition transports the visitor to 1912, to the true story of this spectacular ship through the official declarations of the survivors and through the technical and scientific data obtained after the locating of its remains in 1985.

The exhibition is structured into three great blocks: the original objects, recovered after the sinking of the ship and ceded by some of the survivors; the history of the ship, researched by the historian C.G. Wetterholm and retold through the different spaces that make up the display; and the recreations of parts of the Titanic, such that the visitor can directly get to know what the great staircase of the bow, the water-tight doors, a first-class cabin and another third-class one, a first-class corridor and one of the propellers were like.