I visited the exhibit when it was at the Pyramid in Memphis, TN.  It is
wonderful.  Not a huge amount of artifacts, but some outstanding
exhibits.  Visitors are given introduces to the material via film, issued
cassettes/headphones, and allowed to progress through the exhibit at
their leisure.  At the end of the exhibit in Memphis, upon turning in
your cassettes, you exited into a large gift shop area with enumerable
amount of Titanic memorabilia, from T-shirts to scale models of the ship.
 I went with two of my museum colleagues, who also enjoyed it, and my 10
year old daughter, who was thrilled.  One of my colleagues commented that
he was hoping for more artifacts.  My response was that with the huge
number of visitors they were putting through the exhibit each day,
hour-by-hour, too many artifacts would have really bogged down the
traffic flow.  Go, if you have the chance, it is well worth the time
waiting in line.

Delecia Huitt, Assistant District Supervisor
Southern Missouri Historic District
Division of State Parks
2901 Highway 61
Festus, MO 63028
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 -----Original Message-----
From: Michelle Jimerson Morris
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 10:14 AM
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Subject: Titanic exhibit

I was wondering if anyone on the list has seen or knows anything about
"Titanic - The Artifact Exhibition," set to open in St. Paul on January
1,
1999?  Thanks for any info.

Michelle

Michelle Jimerson Morris
Research Assistant to the Director of History
Kansas City Museum
Science City at Union Station
Phone: 816.460.2237
Fax: 816.460.2268
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