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- Orlando, Florida - Titanic: The Experience
The original Titanic Museum and re-creation is open again on International Drive in Orlando, but about a mile north of where it used to be. It has most of the same rooms and contents as the first one but they have added a Captain's Bridge and an interactive dive area. Costumed guides still lead you around and tell all about the one and only voyage.
[Rich Braham, 01/07/2009]Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition:RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report
- Address:
- 7324 International Drive, Orlando, FL
- Directions:
- I-4 exit 74A. Turn east onto Sand Lake Rd, then make the first left (north) onto International Drive. One block north, on the left, at the Carrier Rd. intersection. You can't miss the large painting of the vessel on the upper facade.
- Hours:
- Daily 10-6 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 407-248-1166
- Admission:
- Adults $22.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
- Orlando, Florida - Titanic the Experience
Just went to Titanic the Experience. They are preparing to move once again to a new permanent space on International Drive. The new place will be 20,000 feet and have more interactive things, as well as the Bridge of Titanic. The tour guide told us the lease has been signed and it will close at the Science Center on October 12th and open in the Winter of 2008 at the new location on International Drive.
[Hugh McElroy, 09/11/2008] - Orlando, Florida - Titanic: The Experience
The Titanic exhibit formerly at the now-half demolished Mercado complex has reopened in the local Orlando Science Center. It still has the same owner -- he just made an unusual arrangement to keep the exhibit there until the end of 2008 while they continue to search for a permanent home. They still have the tour guide/actors dressed in clothing from 1912 showing everyone around.
[Rich Braham, 12/24/2007] Titanic to Resurface in Orlando
Like the headstrong officers of a doomed ocean liner, the owners of Titanic: The Experience -- a Titanic museum in Orlando, Florida, formerly known as Titantic: Ship of Dreams -- apparently preferred not to see warnings of danger ahead. The attraction was part of a big shopping plaza, but in early 2007 the landlord announced that it planned to demolish the plaza to build an even bigger shopping plaza. Titanic was on a month-to-month lease, and reportedly had been in conversations with the landlord about moving into the new facility once it had been built. But there were misunderstandings as well, and ultimately a calamitous breakdown in communication.
Things came to a head on August 20, 2007, when Titanic employees showed up for work and found that the museum's locks had been changed and that strange men were inside, hauling its exhibits out to the sidewalk. The artifacts had survived a soaking in the frigid Atlantic, but how long could they last in the hothouse humidity of summertime Orlando?
Happily, they never had to have their endurance tested. Within four days the attraction and the landlord had reached an amicable compromise. Titanic: The Experience would be allowed to remain open through Labor Day weekend, and it would then be given the rest of the month of September to get its stuff out.
Amid much clatter and ringing of phones, we were able to reach Dave Christensen, Titanic's senior vice president for business development. "We're already planning a grand re-opening," he told us with bravado. "But I'm not at liberty yet to announce the new location." We thought of saying something saucy about not being able to keep a good sunken ship down, but instead asked if its resurrection would be nearby or far away. "It will be in Orlando," said Christensen. "Absolutely."
[08/26/2007]Stuff we missed at Titanic Ship of Dreams
Titanic: Ship of Dreams in Orlando reports that they have beefed up their exhibit to over 54 genuine Titanic items. They're sort of mad at us because we didn't look carefully enough on our visit. Somehow we missed, among other artifacts: a piece of cork from a Fosbery life jacket, a piece of ornate wood, a piece of 'Decoria' plaster from the First Class Smoking Room, and a rivet kept by a shipyard worker in Belfast. Hmmm.... perhaps that rivet would have kept the hull together a little longer....
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