While many have seen the film and watched the documentaries, it’s unlikely they’ve experienced the Titanic in the way that staff at Carnegie Science Center has planned.
Howard Irwin packed a trunk that made it on the Titanic, but he never boarded the ship. The Buffalo, N.Y., resident’s belongings were found on the ocean floor, including one item with a Pittsburgh connection. “That is a Pittsburgh postcard,” said James Penca, a historian and consultant for RMS Titanic
/PRNewswire/ TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition opens at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this Saturday, October 21, 2023. E/M Group, RMS.
Plans to retrieve more artefacts from the site of the Titanic shipwreck have been scrapped after the “catastrophic implosion” of the OceanGate Titan sub earlier this year.