Titanic: The Exhibition — Attraction in Dallas

We attended the Dallas exhibit on July 18 around 11:30. We got our tickets through Groupon. I feel that it was totally worth it. While there was a decent amount of people there; it wasn’t by any means crowded. This exhibit was very well done & worth the charge of admission. Former reviews complained that the relics were not from the actual Titanic. Of course they weren’t. The Titanic is a protected site. It would be disrespectful to pick it apart for our viewing; it’s a graveyard for goodness sake. You start out at ‘the bow’ of the ship where you can take a photo in the Jack & Rose pose’ - for about $25 (you can purchase it at the end near the gift shop if you want). Each person gets a boarding pass with a name and your ‘persons information’ regarding travel, age, where they’re from & why they are traveling. At the end there is a wall listing who survived & who did not. You can look to see if ‘you made it’. The exhibit had many interesting things on display, educating you about the time period it was from; the people who thought it up, the people who built it with their own blood, sweat, and lives, the people who worked on the ship, the Captain & crew, and the passengers aboard. There was also a great deal of information & items from the time of the after math of the wreck. The artifacts from identical sister ships were fascinating. You can purchase an audio guide or VR guide, or just walk through on your own. Every part of the exhibit was well marked with information. Non-flash photos are allowed to be taken throughout. You move through at your own pace. There were a few videos running that were super interesting & informative. There’s plenty of parking out front and it is easy to go through. We saw a few people in wheelchairs there; the entire exhibit is one level & accessible. Of course there is a gift shop at the end with lots of different types of goods to buy. There was a decent variety of items and they were pretty cool. I saw puzzles, travel mugs, coffee cups, t-shirts, sweat shirts, golf towels, decks of cards, baseball hats, shot glasses, and much, much more. Anyhow, I thought they did a fantastic job of educating about the ship & wreck, the people on it, and the disaster that struck. I highly recommend the Titanic exhibit. We had spent about 1 1/2 to 2 hours there. I could have spent another 1/2 hour if I had watched all of the videos from beginning to end. Wish I had. Don’t miss this if you are a...

Where to start...having a reservation was almost meaningless. We got there 15 minutes early, but didn't actually enter the exhibit for 45 minutes. Way too crowded. Way too noisy. We bought the audio tour, but that was just an app scanned into our phone. Difficult to hear, and difficult to follow. The numbers on the displays didn't seem to line up with the audio. There's a large room that is supposed to represent the Titanic's debris field. People were throwing all kinds of trash into this exhibit. Having been to the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor in Las Vegas, I was primed for something similar. Not even close. The Luxor actually has a 15 ton panel from the hull of the ship, along with many other relics salvaged from the wreck site. There's some debate here about the pieces presented at this exhibit. As near as I can tell, there are only two pieces that actually came from the Titanic post sinking. One was a piece of wood that was floating in the ocean. It was picked up by one of the corpse recovery ships. It's been identified as a piece of railing from a stairwell. The other was a medal presented to a young man whose body was recovered a few days after the sinking. Most everything else is presented as being used on a White Star Lines ship. In one of these other reviews, there is a picture of a tennis racket, supposedly recovered from the Titanic. Not so fast. The actual quote on the card next to the racket says "Here is an original photo of him (Richard Norris Williams) and a tennis racket, same as he used in his career". It's not recovered from the Titanic, it's just similar to one in the photo. Deceptive. This seems to be typical of many of the artifacts on display. The saving grace of this exhibit was the technical information about the ship. I did pick up a few tidbits I didn't know. Finally, the two gift shop employees were beyond rude, once we could break through their indifference. I said something critical under my breath. My wife, one of the kindest souls you'll ever meet, was a little more outspoken. We wound up not buying anything, but she did give them some advice (sarcasm). It's what they deserved, but my hunch is they couldn't care less. Long story short, if you want to see some stuff that was kinda sorta related to the Titanic, this is for you. My advice is save up your money, go to Vegas and see the exhibition...

This exhibit is lazy, cheap & superficial. Going thru it you would have no idea that there were any black, brown or indigenous people on board. You'd have no idea that the infamous Rose door scene from the film was based on the true story of one of the Chinese survivors from Titanic or that James Cameron cut the scene featuring a Chinese victim floating on a door and replaced him with Rose. You'd have no idea that the Titanic's crew almost let him drown because they didnt want him to take up precious space on the lifeboat. You'd have no inkling that there was an Egyptian translator in first class who survived. This exhibit does not acknowledge the village of Kafr Mishki in the Rashaya District southeast of the Lebanese capital Beirut. It suffered the most in the Titanic tragedy. The village lost 13 souls in the tragedy.. This exhibit is full of white people and tableware from ships that were not even Titanic. I was incredulous to see a cup "from an Arabic wreck" on display. That there sre so many dishes underscores the lack of humanity, credibility & substance to this exhibit.

This exhibit makes no mention of the many dogs on board, one of whom survived because his owner hid him in her skirt & pretended to be pregnant. John Jacob Astor's Airedale Kitty perished because she was in the kennels with the other dogs. WHY no photos or info on her This exhibit also ignores the cat, the kittens & birds on board.

Why no mention of the actress who survived and whose final film was about surviving Titanic and she wore the evening gown she was rescued in. There is also no mention of the all the suicides amongst survivors.

Many reviews mention the frustration & anger at the excessive amount of time visitors are forced to wait in line could be remedied if there were actual docents in line sharing lesser known stories & info. Isnt that the whole point of an exhibit?

This exhibit as it is a superficial crass carnival style money grab. The organizers dont really seem to care about the deeper history but neither do the 5 star reviewers. It is clear much of the public just accepts the bare minimum. If you really care about the Titanic especially the people, your money + time would be better spent reading books or watching...