Museum creates Titanic tone
IT seems fitting that a local museum of seafaring antiques should commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of SS Titanic.
No one can do that better than the collectors at Chinderah Bay Antiques and Seafaring Museum
The luxury passenger ship hit an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912.
The veritable sea-faring fantasia now hosts a replica Titanic exhibition, with a life ring that dates back to the era and reads SS Titanic Liverpool.
The display includes copies of newspaper stories of the catastrophe from The Times and Daily Mirror and copies of boarding passes.
"The average Jo Blow can't afford to buy genuine articles from the Titanic," said a staff member at the museum.
"But you can create the mood from using replicas and items common to the era.
"We're not out to deceive people into thinking the display is authentic. It's all about creating the atmosphere."
