Covering 2,000 square meters, the exhibition allowed visitors to walk up a gangway surrounded by suitcases, as the Titanicós passengers had done, and explore a first-class corridor. It also recreated the luxury of the suites, the austerity of the third-class cabins and the Marconi radio room. Two scale models showed the ship before and after the disaster.
One of the main attractions was the collection of more than 200 authentic items, sourced from passengersó relatives, salvage operations and auctions. They included the necklace belonging to Kate Phillips, known as The Heart of the Sea, which inspired one of the jewels in James Cameronós film; Gerda Lindellós ring; and the tuxedo worn by Spanish passenger Víctor Peñasco.
The exhibition also displayed the original passenger list and a piece of coal recovered from the Titanicós last boiler. Each object helped reconstruct the stories of those who traveled aboard the ocean liner, whose sinking caused the deaths of 1,495 people.
During the opening, then-Musealia director Luis Ferreiro said that the experience allowed visitors to "feel like Titanic passengers." Commissioner Claes-Göran Ovar Wetterholm, meanwhile, stressed that what mattered were the stories behind each piece.
The exhibition was scheduled to remain in Zaragoza until April 2, 2017, after attracting more than 200,000 visitors in Madrid and 160,000 in Warsaw.
The recreated cabins and passengersó personal belongings brought the story of one of the worldós best-known shipwrecks to Zaragoza. That is how we reported it in Aragón Digital 10 years ago, when Titanic The Exhibition opened at the Augusta Shopping Center.
