I poked around the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria on Thanksgiving Monday. Very well laid out museum. They had the Titanica playing at the Imax theatre. Basically a group of researchers (mainly Russian) took submersibles down to the wreckage of the Titanic, documented, and retrieved a number of artifacts.

In the Titanic exhibit they have probably a thousand different artifacts taken from the wreckage. It is very interesting. There are wallets, suitcases, pieces of the ship, and even dollar bills. There is even a giant piece of ice to show you how cold the ice berg would feel and what it would kind of look like.

When you walk into the exhibit, they hand you a boarding pass for the Titanic with a name on it of someone who was on board. It tells you who they boarded the ship with, what class they were, and there cabin number. At the end of the exhibit, you can see if you or any of your companions on board survived. I was Benjamin Guggenheim. There were 4 in my party and none of us survived except for the woman. There was definitely a bias to the higher classes on who survived or not.

The rest of the museum is pretty neat as well. There is a prehistoric section, a nature section, a 20th century section, native Indian section, and I am probably forgetting some others.

It is $32 for an adult to get in and see both the Imax and the exhibit for Titanica. This includes admission to the rest of the museum. I think the Titanica finished on October 14th, 2007, so checked it now if you can. It probably moves on to the next venue after this.

Where To Park For the B.C. Museum

There is FREE PARKING if you go to Quebec Street. It is the street running east and west on the west side of the Parliament buildings. There is almost always a free spot and there is free parking for certain time durations.

Links

• Royal B.C. Museum's Official Page
• Titanic Exhibit At the Royal B.C. Museum

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