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The Titanic was conceived in 1907 and met with disaster in 1912, a brief existence fraught with the drama of a Greek tragedy. The story has been told and retold, but never more poignantly and passionately than by the artifacts presented in this exhibition. Painstakingly recovered from the debris field surrounding the wreck and artfully conserved, these three-dimensional objects, more than words and images, represent the vessel and the 2,228 souls who journeyed with her into history.  The artifacts were there. They belonged to the Ship and to the people who sailed on her.  As custodians, we display them not to take away the pain of the loss, but to demonstrate the importance of remembering and celebrating all whose lives have been, and will continue to be, inexorably altered by an association with the legendary Royal Mail Steamer Titanic.

The wreck of the Titanic lies approximately 400 nautical miles southeast of Newfoundland in 12,500 feet of water. It was discovered on September 1, 1985, by a team of scientists led by Captain Jean-Louis Michele of IFREMER, the Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer, and byDr. Robert Ballard, then of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
  

Expeditions
Since 1987, RMS Titanic, Inc. has conducted seven research and recovery expeditions to the wreck, recovering over 5,500 artifacts. As exclusive salvor-in-possession of the Ship, the company’s goal is to preserve and display these objects in memory of those who perished with the Titanic.

RMS Titanic, Inc.’s expeditions are a collaboration of scientists, aquanauts, historians, marine archaeologists and engineers, naval architects, and conservators from around the globe. Through this multi-national effort, knowledge of the Ship and its passengers has grown; methodology for deep-ocean recovery and archaeology has been advanced; and new artifact conservation techniques have been developed.

Titanic’s artifacts, recovered and conserved, will remain—a reminder of that magnificent liner, life’s fragility, and the human spirit’s enduring strength.

The Titanic is more than an epic of steam and steel.  It is the story of her passengers, from first-class millionaire to third-class immigrant, who displayed incredible acts of courage, self-sacrifice, and heroism, and who endured extraordinary loss.
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