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Titanic Museum in Branson ....
Titanic Museum, Branson (Missouri, USA) - a two-storey museum dedicated to the famous wreck. It is located in an exact copy of the front of the vessel, made in the scale of 1: 2, at anchor in the small pool that creates the illusion that the ship sails on the sea. A piece of the iceberg, the ship hits the board, is the entrance to the museum.
Inside the Museum of the Titanic can be seen a few replicas of rooms and facilities the ship - the grand staircase «Grand Staircase», dining room, cabins I and III classes, the bridge - and nearly 400 exhibits, raised to the surface from the sunken vessel and located in 20 different rooms. In addition, the museum has several interactive galleries, such as the bridge, from where the ship management is carried out, the telegraph room, where you can send an SOS, and many actors dressed in costumes of the crew members.
Upon entering the museum visitors handed a ticket with the name of one of the real passengers sailing to the ship. The visitor did not know was whether that person is alive or dead until you finish the tour, reaching the memorial plaque with the names of all 2208 passengers and their history of salvation. According to the museum go costumed characters: men in double-breasted officer's uniform, a woman clothed in the form of the maids, and, of course, the ship's captain. From hidden speakers audible siren sounds, the ringing of bells and the muffled voices, creating an atmosphere of approximate to the real.
One of the most exciting places in the Museum of the Titanic is a full-size replica of the grand staircase «Grand Staircase», built on the original drawings of the cost over a million dollars. Walking up the stairs, the visitor enters the class I, where the luxury cabins. On the bridge, which is located nearby, you can try your hand in the management of the ship. On the ground floor - a close cabin class III boiler and engine room
. In the hall called "Flooded Room" is a series of progressively tilted deck, where you can try to resist, lifeboats, where you can sit, and a bowl of salt water chilling -2 temperature, 22 ° C, which can be loaded by a finger and adjacent hours to test their endurance. This will help you understand why almost all the passengers were in the water, quickly died.