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| The Titanic Museum |
The Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee had me a little worried that it would be one big tourist trap. It turned out to be amazing and is definitely great for teens and tweens. You don't have to be interested in the Titanic to fall in love with this museum. When you enter the museum you are handed a card with the name and biography of a real passenger on the Titanic. You later find out if your person survived or not in the Memorial Room, mine survived. This museum has a lot of real artifacts found floating near the wreckage, real photos of the Titanic, and re-creates some parts of the ship. The photos were taken by a priest who visited the ship in England and the photos were not discovered until many years later. The recreated scenes in the museum are the 1st and 3rd class cabins, the ship's control room, The Grand Staircase, a lifeboat, and Titanic's deck at night which is kept at the same temperature as the night of the disaster. The deck is where you can touch an iceberg and stick your hand in 28 degrees water, Brr! Some special features included walking up a version of the deck while it was diagonal, seeing the limited-time only Titanic movie exhibit with costumes from the movie, and a 3rd class staircase being flooded. I would give this museum 1,000,000 stars.
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