The ''Titanic'' Museum Attraction is a museum located in
Branson, Missouri
Branson is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. Most of the city is situated in Taney County, Missouri, Taney County, with a small portion in the west extending into Stone County, Missouri, Stone County. Branson is in the Ozarks, Ozark Mountain ...
, United States, on
76 Country Boulevard. It is one of two
''Titanic''-themed museums founded by John Joslyn (who headed a 1987 expedition to ''Titanic's'' final resting place); the other is located in
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Pigeon Forge is a mountain resort city in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 6,343 at the 2020 census. Situated north of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination that caters primarily t ...
. The museum holds 400 pre-discovery artifacts in 20 galleries.
Guests step through the artificial iceberg into the museum, and receive a passenger boarding ticket, featuring the name of an actual ''Titanic'' passenger and the class on which the passenger traveled. During the tour, guests learn the individual stories of several passengers. The museum features a replica of the ship's First Class grand staircase, in which souvenir photos can be taken. At the end of the tour, guests are told whether their ticket holder survived.
Like the museum of Pigeon Forge, the museum's main exterior visual feature is the partial mockup of the original ocean liner. The construction consists of the front half of the ship, including its first two funnels.
In a 2017 episode of the
Travel Channel
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series, ''
Ghost Adventures
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'',
Zak Bagans
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Early life
Bagans was b ...
and the crew investigated the museum due to claimed paranormal activities that were apparently traced to actual relics from the shipwreck.
See also
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Sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''
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List of maritime museums in the United States
List of maritime museums in the United States is a sortable list of American museums which display objects related to ships and water travel. Many of these maritime museums have museum ships in their collections. Member museums of the Council of ...
External links
''Titanic'' Museum Attraction Website
References
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Landmarks in Missouri
Museums in Branson, Missouri
Maritime museums in Missouri
RMS Titanic museums
Museums established in 2006
2006 establishments in Missouri
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