Titanic Pigeon Forge

Posted by Titanic Pigeon Forge Aug - 1 - 2009 Comments Off

Titanic Pigeon Forge Museum Attraction on Track for Spring 2010 Grand Opening

New Heights for Titanic in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (June 2009) With her towering smoke stacks in place and steel framing complete, Titanic Pigeon Forge is sure to become one of the Volunteer State’s most talked-about and highly visited tourist destinations.
As interest in the project grows, an exciting, admission-free Titanic Preview Trailer will soon be stationed at the job site. Opening just in time for the July 4 holiday weekend, it will remain in place until construction ends. Visitors are invited to stop by the trailer for a preview tour of this incredible landmark development in the making. In addition, a large electronic billboard now flanks the museum attraction’s entrance, giving passers-by continuous construction updates and headline information.
There are some fine traveling Titanic exhibits on tour, but Titanic Pigeon Forge will be a permanent three-deck structure built firmly on Tennessee soil. Shaped like Titanic herself, it will comfortably hold 20 galleries to display hundreds of authentic, priceless Titanic artifacts that were either carried from the ship and into lifeboats by passengers and crew, or were found afloat soon after the sinking and quickly salvaged by rescue boats.

Thanks to a team of skilled and talented artisans, the museum attraction will also feature finely crafted exact reproductions of the original Titanic’s Marconi Wireless Room, its famous Grand Staircase, a First-Class suite and a Third-Class cabin. Guests will be able to walk the fully functional Grand Staircase. It will lead to the First-Class suite, which will be dedicated to the Polk-Carters, a socially prominent American family—with strong ancestral ties to Tennessee— that was returning home to Philadelphia following a trip abroad.
The ship will be anchored in water to create the illusion of Titanic at sea, and a 90-minute selfguided tour will give guests the sensation of sailing on the original ship’s 1912 maiden voyage. Upon entry, each guest will receive a boarding pass bearing the name of an actual Titanic passenger or crew member whose fate will be reveled on the Memorial Wall at tour end. Along the way, powerful emotions will surface as guests…

Touch the frozen surface of an “iceberg”
Feel the chill of that fateful “Starry Night
Study some of the largest, most detailed Titanic models ever built
Grip the ship’s wheel and follow the Captain’s commands
Tour world-class galleries and the rare historical artifacts they hold
Sit in a Titanic lifeboat and listen to actual survivors tell their stories
Send an SOS from the Marconi Wireless Room
Test their balance while standing on mini-decks built to show the ever-steeper slope of Titanic as she sank
Watch children six years and younger explore the special interactive Titanic Tot Play-and-Learn Room
Dive to Titanic’s wreck site via spectacular underwater camera footage

Cedar Bay Entertainment is a privately owned entertainment and development company headquartered in Branson, Missouri, the site of Cedar Bay’s first Titanic Museum Attraction.
Since its April 2006 grand opening, it has welcomed more than 1.6 million guests.