Titanic Belfast Museum

The Titanic Experience - that's what the main exhibit is called at the Titanic Belfast Museum, and it really is an experience.  There are some traditional museum displays, but much of it employs 3D or 4D or virtual reality exhibits.  From the ride through the assembly dock to the virtual elevator through the ship's decks to the enormous theater showing footage of the wreck and debris field, we saw and felt a lot of what it was like to build and sail on the Titanic.  It was an engineering marvel, and Belfast was very proud of her ship.

Scale model of the Titanic in its dry dock,

with today's museum next to it

Former location of Titanic's dry dock

One of the final pictures of Titanic as she departed

Queenstown, Ireland, her last port of call

A virtual deck view

Iceberg of life vests

Standing at the bow of Titanic in her dry dock

The second part of the exhibit took us to the Nomadic, which is a small tender ship that transported passengers from the French port of Cherbourg out to the Titanic, and other ships that were too big and had to anchor offshore.  Its decor was mostly original and gave us a slight feel for what it would be like on the Titanic.  And we got to dress up as passengers!

Some of the passengers who tendered

on the Nomadic to the Titanic