tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721530240673009820.post3839017241013759011..comments2024-03-23T04:19:23.604+00:00Comments on VAGABOND LANGUAGE / arts, culture & vintage clothing blog from the west of Ireland: Titanic Belfast, Belfast, N. IrelandZoëhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13196378514902183627noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721530240673009820.post-61372373133753284092012-08-08T09:18:01.647+01:002012-08-08T09:18:01.647+01:00The dining room for the first class was located on...The dining room for the first class was located on the Deck DBM Afreen https://www.blogger.com/profile/14538306490884382289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721530240673009820.post-11175855499272297532012-05-24T16:38:11.075+01:002012-05-24T16:38:11.075+01:00Exactly! Maybe I'm biased, having worked in th...Exactly! Maybe I'm biased, having worked in the Ulster American Folk Park, but to me, that's what a museum should be like. If the govt are going to plunge £££ into museums, they should be educational instead of robotic. At the UAFP you <i>walk through</i> 1800s Ireland. You can touch the houses, materials, smell and see! The "guides" answer questions from the most primary to the more historically-minded. You can board the famine-esque ship and arriving in the New World gives such a sense of the entire experience.<br /><br />To me, <i>that</i> is interaction. Not standing queuing for a ride or pressing buttons on a machine. You want to see Titanic artefacts, you want to be able to see, smell and touch types of materials. The Titanic Belfast could easily have made an example home of a shipbuilder, for example. In actuality they could have just made a REPLICA SHIP and allowed everyone to wander around with those little headsets. A "beforehand" and "aftermath" gallery with information written by a historian would have been fine.<br /><br />I really do think the whole thing is an exercise in commercialisation. When I was in the foyer a few weeks ago, there was a queue to get into the shop. The tiny cafe was overrun and honestly, I'm not chomping at the bit to go back, pay £14 to stand in line and at the end of the day not even get a fun Jack and Rose-alike photo taken in the stairwell because I'm not "corporate". Grrr! :)The Plath Diarieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04103304765202593417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721530240673009820.post-9465741754853389032012-05-24T13:08:26.813+01:002012-05-24T13:08:26.813+01:00Maeve I am so glad you agree!! Titanic Belfast did...Maeve I am so glad you agree!! Titanic Belfast didn't retweet this because they don't want to hear the negative I expect, but it IS expensive. If I wanted to interact with everything I could have stayed at home and clicked around on their website and gotten the general idea, for free! I paid £9.50 for a student ticket.<br /><br />And yes, I should have put that in - with the volume of people visiting, jostling to look at a computer screen isn't the kind of museum experience I would expect, or want to engage in. Its very one dimensional really. It was only until I got to the passenger profiles did I begin to feel a real human engagement with the Titanic story and I really wish they could have expanded on that.Zoëhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13196378514902183627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721530240673009820.post-12184332991120129162012-05-23T23:31:26.565+01:002012-05-23T23:31:26.565+01:00I am so disappointed that there aren't more ex...I am so disappointed that there aren't more exhibits!! And don't even get me STARTED on the "corporate" staircase. What BS!! <br /><br />(From what I've seen) The layout of the building is nice, definitely got that ship-feel to it. But with the sizeable crowds, I feel that interactive exhibits aren't the best way to go. People want to be entertained and EDUCATED in museums. I think that the Titanic Museum seems guilty of dumbing everything down and of course, raising prices!The Plath Diarieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04103304765202593417noreply@blogger.com