Title: Milwaukee Public Museum
Tags: Titanic Museum Art
Blog Entry: I really do love museums, and it has been a few years since I have braved the downtown Milwaukee construction, but on a sunny Saturday I decided to grab a few of my favorite people and venture to the Milwaukee Public Museum. I was sure glad I did, it was great! Not only was it really easy to breeze along the newly constructed 94 system, but what a surprise to find out that there was a Titanic exhibition taking place at the museum as well. I loved it, just loved it....We took the audio tour and embarked on a fantastic journey. As we entered the exhibit we were all given an identity of an actual passenger on the original Titanic, as we waited our turn we shared with one another all of the info we had received on who we were going to become for the duration of our visit. We entered the area to find ourselves transformed to another time and space, we were on the docks about to enter the fantastic ship, as we entered the ship we were shown so many real artifacts that were found at the bottom of the ocean, each had a memory attached and were explained in detail as we strolled along to the grand staircase. We saw the living arrangments of the first class passengers, as well as the third class...we were then taken on a journey through the days leading up to the crash of the iceburg. I could almost feel as though I had been there, everything shown to us had a meaning and belonged to one of the passengers. We went through the exhibit(which was really like going through the ship) day by day until it was right in front of us...a real iceburg, you could even touch it!!! At the end of the tour we were all able to find out our fate....did we survive the most famous large ship crash of all time? Some of us did, and sadly a few of us had perished in the disaster. I was so engaged in these people that I googled all of us when I got home to find out how the rest of our lives turned out...it was great and well worth the time and money. After the Titanic exhibit we had lunch and went through the rest of the museum. One of my favorite things to do is to stroll down The Streets of Old Milwaukee...and everything was still as wonderful as always...the shops, the doctors office and my all time favorite little old lady rocking on her front porch. The Europeon Village was fantastic as always, and I found myself in bewilderment just as I had been as a child, wanting to get inside those homes of all the different cultures in Europe, I was a kid again! It was a great day spent with people I love enjoying one of the greatest Museums in the country. If you haven't been there in awhile...pack up the kids and spend a Saturday enjoying some good old fashioned culture and be sure to visit the Titanic!!
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