Titanic has sailed over to the Luxor
For anyone interested in history or in the great nautical disasters of the world, your ship has come in — and you can board it at the Luxor.
That’s where Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit has permanently docked, having moved from the Tropicana to the Luxor in December 2008. Newly designed for the Luxor, the 25,000-square-foot exhibition gives each visitor the opportunity to "become" a passenger and sail with the Titanic on her ill-fated maiden voyage.
The story of the doomed luxury liner comes to life through its authentic artifacts, dramatic recreations and hands-on interactive experiences. The latter includes an Ice Wall on which visitors can put their hands and feel the temperature of the iceberg and, hence, the frozen waters that terrible April 15 night in 1912 when the ship struck an iceberg and sank with 2,228 souls on board. Only 710 were saved.
Included in the Luxor's exhibition are more than 20 rare artifacts, include gaming chips, passengers' personal papers and decorative sections from Titanic’s famed Grand Staircase. View a never-to-be-opened bottle of champagne with a 1900 vintage, passengers' luggage, a gold 1894 coin featuring Queen Victoria, floor tiles, the ship's whistles, a galley porthole, a ceramic toothpaste jar, an American steamboat playing card, the ten of clubs, and much, much more.
The crown jewel of the Luxor exhibit is the largest piece of the Titanic ever recovered — the "Big Piece" — a 15-ton piece of the ship’s starboard hull that measures 15 by 30 feet. The showcased piece was raised 12,500 feet from the ocean floor, and it took more than 80 years —and two attempts — to surface.
As you move through expanded exhibition galleries, you'll experience this important historical event in chronological order — from Titanic’s construction in a ship yard, to her maiden voyage, the fateful sinking and modern-day recovery efforts.
You can step into authentically re-created first- and third-class cabins, stroll through the Promenade Deck and view the social hub of Titanic, the Grand Staircase. Personal stories of some of the passengers will dramatize the overwhelming depths of this tragedy while you learn the details of the sinking and some of the theories behind what happened on that terrible night.
“With more than 22 million visitors to date, we consistently see how Titanic resonates and touches everyone,” says Arnie Geller, chairman and CEO of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. “Each of us can relate to someone on Titanic and the retelling of her story feeds our curiosity time and again.”
You can buy tickets online or by calling (800) 557–7428 or (702) 262–4400. Audio tours are available for $6 per audio wand and are available in English, Latin American Spanish, French and Castillian Spanish.
- by Bobbie Katz, Las Vegas Reporter for HelloMetro
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