Schlagwort: Titanic

A half day on the Titanic

Hi guys,

no, I was not really on the Titanic, but close to it, because we (Martin and I) was on Saturday in the world famous Titanic-Museum. It is one of the landmarks of Belfast.

The Titanic-Museum

We started on Saturday noon to drive with a taxi to the Titanic-Museum. Arrived there we have picked up our tickets (on the website reserved) at a ticket office. After 30min waiting, we could start in the “Titanic World”. 🙂

The start began with the former living in Belfast and how the shipping industry arose. After them we could drive with an elevator up on the titanic scaffold (20m high).

After the crossing of the scaffolding, we could with a small, I would say space shuttle, fly around the working mens, which have worked on the titanic. We could they see on screens, camouflaged as windows.

On the end of the museum, we could marvel the titanic wreck under our foots, it was amazing.

Best regards from Belfast
Benjamin

Titanic

I must admit that I’m a real tourist. So I don’t miss the highlight of Belfast: The Titanic museum. I’ve the luck that this exhibition opend this year. Because this is a very famous sight you must book the ticket. Although I’ve made the online reservation I had forget the booking number. So Benny and me went to the Titanic Belfast by cab and hoped that would be OK without any confirmation for the ticket. Actually only my credit card sufficed to get the tickets. Additional we took a audio guide in German to understand the whole exhibition.
The area around the the museum is, only a few exceptions, very dismal. Therefore the building is very impressive. The facility is a mixture from the old (wood and rusty steel) and the new (refined steel and glass). The exhibition by itself is guided and logical structed. They are a lot of interactive display and holographic similarly presentations. I’m pleased with the ride into the artifical and interesting shipyard, which I’ve never expected.
Overall a very watchable sightseeing that must be seen by anybody who is in the near of Belfast and have a little interesting in history or ships.