Titanic Museum (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee)

{{Short description|Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, US}}

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| name = The Titanic Museum

| native_name = Titanic Pigeon Forge

| image = Titanic model in Pigeon Forge, TN IMG 5058.JPG

| imagesize = 250

| caption = The Titanic Museum

| map_type = Tennessee#USA

| map_caption = 35.82055 N, -83.578935 W

| coordinates = {{coord|35.82055|-83.578935|display=inline}}

| established = {{start date and age|2010|04|08|p=yes}}

| dissolved =

| location = 2134 Parkway
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, United States

| type =

| collection size = 400 personal and private artifacts{{cite web |title=About Titanic Pigeon Forge |url=http://www.titanicpigeonforge.com/about-titanic |website=TitanicPigeonForge.com |access-date=25 June 2019 }}

| visitors =

| director =

| curator = Paul Burns

| owner = World Choice Investments, LLC

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| website = {{URL|http://titanicpigeonforge.com}}

}}

The Titanic Museum is a two-story museum shaped like the RMS Titanic. It is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, United States, and opened on April 8, 2010. It is built half-scale to the original ship. Similar to the one in Branson, Missouri, the museum holds 400 pre-discovery artifacts in twenty galleries. It is the largest permanent Titanic museum in the world.{{Cite news

| last = Sanati

| first = Mercedeh

| title = A Titanic museum in Tennessee

| newspaper = The Globe and Mail

| pages = TRAVEL; Pg. T7

| date = April 16, 2010

| url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/a-titanic-museum-in-tennessee/article1536627/

| access-date = June 25, 2019

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100418043656/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/a-titanic-museum-in-tennessee/article1536627/

| archive-date = April 18, 2010}}

The structure is built in a pool to create the illusion of the Titanic at sea, and the 2-hour, self-guided tour is designed to give guests the sensation of being an original passenger on the Titanic{{'}}s 1912 maiden voyage.

As guests enter, they are given a passenger boarding ticket. On this ticket is the name of an actual Titanic passenger and the class they were traveling. Guests will learn the individual stories of several passengers and crew members. The museum features a replica of the ship's First Class grand staircase, in which souvenir photos can be taken. In the Titanic Memorial Room, they will find out whether their ticketed passenger survived.

The structure was estimated to have cost $25 million to build.{{cite news|last1=Wagner|first1=Matt|title=Titanic museum drops anchor in Pigeon Forge|url=http://sbj.net/stories/titanic-museum-drops-anchor-in-pigeon-forge,25381|access-date=April 2, 2018|work=Springfield Business Journal|date=November 2, 2009|language=en}}