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Nov 01, 2019 After the Titanic wreck was discovered, many expeditions were sent there and over 5,500 artifacts were recovered from the wreckage. Some the items. But since 1987, a private American company has salvaged remains of Titanic from the ocean floor, amassing more than 5,500 artifacts from the ill-.
Titanic museum unveils never-before-seen artifacts in Las Vegas
For the first time since opening its doors 10 years ago, the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition in Las Vegas has unveiled never-before-seen artifacts from the historic shipwreck.
LAS VEGAS – It’s been more than a century since the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean – but despite the decades that have passed since 1912, the memory and legacy of the “unsinkable ship” continue to mesmerize historians and enthusiasts.
For the first time since opening its doors 10 years ago, the 'Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition' in Las Vegas has unveiled never-before-seen artifacts that help paint the picture of the historic shipwreck.
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“We wanted to celebrate a new decade at the Luxor. So we selected 20 new items that had never been seen before, as well as items that had never been seen together or in Vegas itself,” Alexander Klingelhofer, Experiential Media Group executive director for collections, told Fox News.
Some of the artifacts include an hourglass, a pair of old leather boots, a case with test tubes and a cosmetics jar with cream, among other items.
Alexander Klingelhofer, Experiential Media Group executive director for collections examining artifacts. (Experiential Media Group)
“The last time we recovered artifacts was in 2004,” Klingelhofer told Fox News. “When we recover artifacts, we're the stewards forever. So that means we have to treat them initially and each type of material takes a long time to treat -- we select those things that we think would be compelling to the current audience. But, we never stop conserving things. We never stop researching them.”
The luxury British steamship was carrying 2,223 passengers when it set sail on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England – making stops in France and Ireland before heading for New York.
On April 15, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, and 1,517 people died and 706 others were rescued, according to the U.S. Senate Report on the incident.
“A key element of the Titanic and why it resonates so much with people is because of the idea that this was the unsinkable ship. This was a technological wonder that was going to change the way that humans dealt with the environment,” Deirdre Clemente, University of Nevada, Las Vegas public history professor told Fox News. “But as we learned from that and of course, we're learning in many other different kinds of ways about technology today is that it can create as many problems as we think it solves and humans are still vulnerable to the elements as much now as we were then.”
Newly released artifacts on display at the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition (Experiential Media Group)
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The exhibition inside the Luxor is the largest Titanic museum in the country and takes visitors on an emotional journey – connecting people to the ship and its passengers through the artifacts that helped identify those on the ill-fated voyage.
“It's an empathetic experience because you are going through their lives,” Klingelhofer said. “It teaches you about people, about social norms, many different things you can learn along the way.”
While the ship continues to rest at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Mother Nature continues to take its course – closing the window for researchers to explore and gather more data from the wreckage.
“There is a steady decrease of the viability of the ship itself and therefore of the artifacts themselves as well -- the artifacts are strewn in the debris field,” Klingelhofer explained. “But yes, the rusticles are working hard to return the steel back to nature. I mean it's manmade, it wants to go back to being iron ore.”
Never-before-seen artifacts are on display for the first time at the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition in las Vegas. (Experiential Media Group)
Klingelhofer told Fox News RMS Titanic Inc. has filed with a judge for an expedition to the Titanic sometime in 2020 in hopes of learning more about the deterioration, as well as additional research on artifacts and marine life.
Remains of the Titanic are protected from people diving for valuables thanks to a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom that was ratified last month by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
.Ulster Folk & Transport Museum (Belfast, Northern Ireland): This museum has an exhibition called, which provides a great deal of information about the Titanic’s construction.(Branson, Missouri): This museum is a half-size replica of the ship (only two steam funnels); a giant iceberg stands next to the front door. To get in, the museum says, visitors have to successfully navigate the iceberg.
Visitors can stroll through replicas of the lobby, cabins, and Marconi wireless room (where they also can send an SOS message). The museum features an 18-foot, one-of-a-kind Titanic model.(Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada): This museum has an enormous collection of wooden Titanic artifacts. It also houses what have come to be called the “Shoes of the Titanic Unknown Child.” This pair of leather shoes was discovered on “Body No. 4,” a 2-year-old unknown male child found in the waters of the sinking site. The museum also has other artifacts in its permanent Titanic exhibition, including railroad tycoon Charles Hays’s gloves.The Titanic Museum (Indian Orchard, Massachusetts): This museum belongs to the. Although it’s small, the museum boasts some memorable Titanic artifacts, including original Titanic blueprints (donated by the builders of the ship), John Jacob Astor’s life jacket, and the original Titanic wireless that received the warning transmission saying where the fatal iceberg was located.(Liverpool, England): This museum presents the original 20-foot-long builder’s model of the Titanic, a survivor’s life jacket, a bank note, a ventilation grille, tie pins, a watch, spectacles, and a lifeboat nameplate.
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