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Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby Captain ACS » Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:29 pm

Don't tell me I posted this in the wrong forum, I didn't exactly know where to put it and this place seemed the closest :lol:

I went to this place back in June 2008. It's a giant museum made to look like the front half of the Titanic, with a big iceberg on the starboard side and a pool of water at the front. Below I have a screenshot of the museum I took in Google Earth:

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Before you can go in, you go through the big awning you see on the starboard side. While entering, they give you a little handheld sound player and a boarding pass made to look like one of a Titanic passenger, which gave information about the passenger it lists and their fate onboard the Titanic. Once you enter, you go through the museum seeing various exhibits and replicas of Titanic things such as passenger rooms (they had replicas of the forward Grand Staircase, 3rd class passenger room, 1st class passenger room, bridge, and promenade). The sound player you bring inside is for, when you see a number on an exhibit, you push the button with that number on the sound player and you can hear facts about that exhibit and its part in the Titanic. Towards the end, they have a gift shop where you can buy books, modelling kits, desktop accessories and other Titanic-related products. I even got this out of the gift shop (I know this pic is blurry :lol: ):

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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby VW1956 » Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:29 am

Hello Captain ACS. Would love to go to this exibition but until I win the lottery the nearest I will get to it is by looking at the ship through the live cam which is situated near the bow of Titanic. I did see a picture of the grand staircase on Bransons own website. It certainly looked impressive but why did they have to put the brass? hand rail on it. I always thought it some thing to do with Health and Safety but it looks so wrong. Ken.
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby Timothy Trower » Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:54 pm

The brass hand rails on the Grand Staircase of Titanic Branson (and at Pigeon Forge, as well) are there solely because of building code regulations. I agree that they detract from the overall impression, but the staircase couldn't be used by visitors unless they had been installed.
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby pat toms » Sun Jul 31, 2011 6:46 pm

Only america could capitilise like the branson titanic exhibition,and other exhibitions which they can manufacture on a massive scale,with a population to match,if they don,t have it they make it.Lovely pictures of branson titanic kep them coming.
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby Captain ACS » Mon Aug 01, 2011 3:43 am

VW1956 wrote:Hello Captain ACS. Would love to go to this exibition but until I win the lottery the nearest I will get to it is by looking at the ship through the live cam which is situated near the bow of Titanic.


Yeah, good luck winning the lottery :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby pat toms » Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:48 am

I must go to branson missouri,but first will go to abbeyleix co laoise,where |i have the shannon ulster titanic society titanic display,in the museum there formerley the heritage museum with some old looms that are alraedy there ,these looms produced some of the carpets for the white star line and titanic.
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby Captain ACS » Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:24 am

pat toms wrote:I must go to branson missouri,but first will go to abbeyleix co laoise,where |i have the shannon ulster titanic society titanic display,in the museum there formerley the heritage museum with some old looms that are alraedy there ,these looms produced some of the carpets for the white star line and titanic.


You'd have fun in Branson. Not only that, it's got a WHOLE lot of other stuff to do
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby pat toms » Wed Aug 03, 2011 4:09 pm

Captain ACS,Thanks for the reply Branson must be a big place will look it up on the computer the U.S.A. I have read that it is in the middle of America will look at the map.
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby bwormst » Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:59 pm

Pat -

Yeah, pretty much in the middle of American. Southern portion of the state of Missiouri in the US.

I was lucky enough to go there in June. Definitely one of the better Titanic Museums I've been to. Much of the artifacts are pre-discovery - in other words, very little from the bottom of the sea and the wreck site.

Some of the exhibits I especially liked - a half lifeboat that you can get into, to see how bit they were. A sloping deck, to get a feel of what a 12 degree - and a 30 degree - slope really feels like, if you were on the ship in the last stages. Of course, lots of photos and memrobilia too.

Well worth the trip.

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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby Timothy Trower » Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:57 pm

Hey, Bill -- next time you're in town, let me know! I'd love to meet you down there.
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby Captain ACS » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:07 am

I went there back in my trip to northwest Arkansas in 2008 to see my aunt. We always go to Branson when we go up there, but in 2008 it was the only time I went to the museum. They live about 20 miles from Branson in Eureka Springs.
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby VW1956 » Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:19 am

Hello CaptainACS. I just went to Eureka springs. Not for real but with Google street view. Main street looks like it hasn't changed since the days of the cowboys. Ken.
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby pat toms » Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:06 am

eurica springs i would like to go there,and see the cowboys even the cow girls.
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby Timothy Trower » Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:08 pm

You would be sorely disappointed. The place has NOTHING to do with cowboys and cowgirls; and this isn't the forum for me to delve into the types of creatures that actually inhabit the place. Visit, but don't live there . . .
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Re: Branson, Missouri Titanic museum

Postby bwormst » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:35 pm

Tim,

Might be in Branson next April! Not sure yet, though.

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