Taylee, Brynlee, and I went to the Museum of Idaho today with my Mom and my Aunt Deann to see the Titanic Exhibit. We loved it! There were huge pictures of different parts of the Titanic, both in the ocean and before it sailed. Different artifacts were all over. Two of the things that I was impressed/amazed by were the replicas of the cabins (did you know that it was over $4000 for a first class cabin on the Titanic?!? The exhibit said that today that would be over $70,000! Crazy!) and the dinner menus that were posted. I would definitely be the most comfortable with the 3rd class food. It was the only menu that I recognized all of the food :-)It was also interesting that when you enter into the exhibit you get a ticket that has information about a real person who was on the Titanic. It tells you what class they were in, their family, where they were going and why, and then at the end of the exhibit you get to check the list of passengers to see whether you survived or not. Both of my daughters and I survived, but sadly, neither my mother nor my aunt survived. The stories that were displayed of some of the passengers were really sad. One was about the lady that was on my aunt's ticket. Apparently she was on one of the lifeboats until she realized that her husband was not going to be allowed on it, so she got off to stay with him. Neither survived. Another lady gave up her seat on the last lifeboat so that a mother could be with her children.
I would recommend going to the exhibit, but perhaps not with kids. Taylee enjoyed parts of it and Bryns did pretty good through about half of it, but while it was fascinating to adults, it was not what I would call 'kid friendly.'
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Michaela went for a field trip and she loved it! She said it was really cool and went on and on about it. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the info. I have been wanting to go.
It sounds like it would be an interesting exhibit to see! I'm glad you guys had fun and that your little family survived (literally and pretend):)
It definitely was a thought provoking experience. When I looked at the wall of names of passengers -1st class, 2nd and 3rd- devided into sections of "survived" and "lost", I was almost sick at the exhorbatant number of passengers in 3rd class that didn't make it. Many didn't know, and those that did, found the stairs blocked. My ancestors would have been travelling 3rd class if they had been on that boat.
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