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| - A touring version of this exhibit recently came to my city, but I am glad that I waited to see it in Vegas. However, it is the exhibit alone receiving my three stars.
With a $5 coupon, it still cost a rather steep $30 per person. Speaking of the coupon, the desk demanded to know where I had received it, (it was obvious I had ripped it from one of the many tourists magazines you come across in Vegas). Thrown by the question, I began thinking aloud, "hmm... The one from the airport..." which was promptly mocked by two people who I was officially paying $15/hr to mock me. I was not impressed.
The entrance between Titanic and The Bodies is not clearly marked, so when I walked right past the photo green screen area towards the entrance, I was rudely called back over with eye rolls. Obviously I wasn't the first one to do it. And pardon me to not be expecting a photo cash grab at a museum commemorating the loss of 1,500 people. (We checked the photos at the end out of curiosity. Worst photoshop work we'd seen on the entire trip. In one I'm quite sure you were underwater, and another had a ghost behind you. It was all just in poor taste.)
The exhibit itself was quite beautiful and set to make you feel as though you were actually aboard the ship. As you learned about steerage, you heard dripping water and ship sounds; gaining light and grandure with ship class. You are even led to feel dread as you come nearer and nearer the impending tragedy.
While I am conflicted about the raising of the artifacts themselves, (it was my colleague's choice to visit,) I was thoroughly impressed by the way it was all put together.
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