Titanic exhibit coming to Denver
Denver Business Journal - by Noelle Leavitt
Dressed in its best artifacts, the exhibit "Titanic -- The Artifact Exhibition" will hit the Denver Museum of Nature and Science full throttle within the next month or so.
On April 10 -- the 92nd anniversary of when the Titanic left port -- the museum will make an official announcement of when the exhibit will arrive here and how long it will stay.
The exhibit was in Wichita, Kan., from Jan. 13 through March 25, and brought in around 71,000 viewers.
"I think that people in Denver are really going to like it," said Christina Bluml, spokeswoman for Exploration Place, the Wichita museum.
People visiting the exhibit will have a chance to experience what it was like on the Titanic. Entering the exhibit at Exploration Place, patrons were given a ticket that had the name of a real Titanic passenger on the back. At the end of the exhibit, visitors found out if their passenger had survived.
A version of the exhibit is currently in California, where visitors also are finding their admission tickets have a whole new meaning.
"It's a very effective way to make it an interactive experience for the visitor," said Angela Torretta, public relations manager for Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding, Calif.
The exhibit will be in Turtle Bay until May 28. Torretta said all the Titanic exhibits touring the country have the same interactive theme -- it's the size of the exhibit that varies, not the experience.
The size of the exhibit that will come to Denver is not yet known.
The artifacts are a collection from RMS Titanic Inc., which is the only company lawfully allowed to explore the sunken ship.
JP Morgan Chase Bank likely would be among the sponsors of the exhibit in Denver, said Mary Jane Rogers, a spokeswoman for the bank in Phoenix. JP Morgan Chase underwrote the exhibit when it was at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix from December 2001 to June 2002.
"I know there have been discussions about a major sponsorship, and I have weighed in with the JPMorgan Chase experience in Arizona, which was universally positive," Rogers said.
A "major sponsorship" generally means a six-figure contribution, she said.
"Denver would be a fabulous place to have the Titanic exhibit, in part because of the great appeal to a broad audience and especially because of the Molly Brown connection," Rogers said. "Having been a part of the underwriting of the exhibit here in Phoenix, I can tell you that Chase found enormous value for clients in almost every line of business as well as our employee base, all of whom gave rave reviews about the experience."
A bit of Titanic's history: Construction of the Titanic started in March 1909 in Belfast, Ireland, and was completed in May 1911. The 882-foot-long Titanic weighed 52,310 tons and could hold a total of 1,316 passengers. There are only two passengers still alive, according to RMS Titanic Inc.
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