Titanic Artifacts to be Shown in Budapest

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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 RMS 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.
 
Gabriella Toth, who is in charge of setting up the exhibition in Budapest, said preparations would start on August 12 and the first pieces would start arriving from August 21. The exhibition is coming from the German city of Kiel.
 
"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," Toth said.
 
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: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)