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 Victor 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.
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.
