Titanic Belfast Experience

*I received two complimentary tickets for the purposes of review.

During our short stay in Belfast, we knew that we wanted to visit North Ireland's newest and biggest attraction.

Titanic Belfast opened to great fanfare in March 2012

just 100 meters from where the infamous ship was actually built.  

They do have some artifacts, but it's not a museum as much as an experience.

The building is gorgeous and was designed to be reminiscent of the hull of a ship.

There are nine galleries of interactive and multimedia exhibits.

A majority of the exhibit focuses on the Belfast of the day and the great shipyard of Harland & Wolff. 

Things are broken up by a short ride that takes you up and down

to see the builders banging on the rivets to build the behemoth ship.

The recreation of the cabins were very interesting.

We paid the extra £3 for the audioguides which definitely added to the experience. 

There is plenty to do and see and with ticket prices at £14.50, I felt there was great value for money.

We were lucky enough to be there when they were exhibiting the original violin and case

that belonged to Wallace Hartley.  He played on as the ship sank.

They later found the case attached to his body. 

The violin just recently sold at auction for £900,000 which breaks the record for titanic memorabilia. 

There is one gallery that focuses on the actual sinking and another small gallery

that focuses on the aftermath.  I didn't know that original reports went out after the sinking saying that

everyone had survived.  There must have been so much confusion.

At the end there is a underwater theatre showing a film about the discovery and investigation of the shipwreck.

You can use computers to explore the wreckage field.

It took us a few hours to get through the exhibit, but we could have spent several more hours.

There is a restaurant and cafe on site and a gift shop, of course.

Belfast is very proud of her industrial and maritime heritage.

They are still building ships at Harland and Wolff.

I highly recommend a visit to Titanic Belfast if you visit Northern Ireland.

Have you visited Titanic Belfast?  What did you think?

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 *I received two complimentary tickets to Titanic Belfast for the purposes of review.
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