So far, fifteen ten-tonne trucks have made deliveries to the Millenáris Park, and an international staff of 30 is working to make the exhibition ready by Saturday.
The artifacts were retrieved by the Robert Ballard exhibition, which discovered the wreck in 1985 and spent several years bringing objects up some 4,000 metres to the surface.
The Titanic, the largest ocean liner of its time, ran into an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank on April 14, 1912, leaving more than 1,500 of its passengers drowned.
The exhibition will show fantastically preserved porcelain and crystal service used on the ship as well as personal artifacts, such as eyeglasses, wallets and clothing.
"We can learn who (the passengers) were, why they boarded the ship, why they were travelling to America, and how they met their fate. At the very end, visitors can find the names of all of the passengers on the wall of memory," Gabriella Toth, who is in charge of setting up the exhibition in Budapest, earlier told the Hungarian News Agency
The objects in the exhibition will be labeled in both Hungarian and English, Toth said.
The exhibition will start in the "planning room", where pictures will show how ocean liners were designed as well as track the construction of the Titanic from conception to launch. In the second part of the exhibition, visitors will see the personal effects of passengers.
The exhibition includes a reconstructed first-class cabin and shows the conditions endured by third-class passengers. Visitors can see the ship's bridge and touch part of a real iceberg, which should give some idea of how cold the Atlantic was on that spring night in 1912. They can also smell some of the fragrances brought on the ship by a perfumer.
The exhibition of some 300 objects from the ship has opened at venues in 18 countries since 1991 and been seen by some 16 million people.
The exhibition in Budapest will run until November 26, 2007.
Source: Múlt-kor / Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
