My husband and I traveled to The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan to see the Titanic exhibition on August 31.The exhibition opened in March and it closes on September 30. I was thrilled we actually found a day to make the drive up to Dearborn to see it before it closes.
I really wished photography was allowed inside the exhibit. There were a few replicas of a some rooms on the ship. The exhibition leads you down a first-class hallway. You walk by the Grand Staircase, a first-class room and third-class room.
It was just so neat to see them in person. Even just to see the replica rooms up close was wonderful.
I was fortunate to read everything on the walls and displays. The exhibition had actually items on display from the ship. It was just amazing to look at items that were on the bottom of the ocean for many years.
Besides the room replicas, my favorite items were the dishes. Each class of passengers had a separate dishes. My favorite set of dishes was from the third-class. It was plain white with a red White Star Line logo in the center. Very classy.
It took my husband and I about an hour to see the entire exhibit. When walking into the exhibit, we were handed a card with a passenger's name, address, age, class, cabin number, reason for traveling on Titanic and a fact about them. The passenger's name that I was given was Miss Bridget Delia McDermott from Addergoole, Ireland. She was 28 years old and was a third class passenger. Bridget was traveling to visit cousins in St. Louis. The night before she departed, Bridget gave a few coins to a wanderer. He took the coins and told her she was going on a long journey. "There will be a tragedy but you will be saved," the man said. It is true. She survived the sinking of the Titanic. My husband's passenger wasn't so lucky. He didn't make it.
If you are able to make it to Dearborn, it was worth the time and money. If not, the exhibition will soon be opening in Raleigh, North Carolina; Shreveport, Louisiana; St. Petersburg, Florida; Fort Worth, Texas and Philadelphia.
Photo credit: The Dearborn Free Press
