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'Southampton's Titanic Story' museum unveiled

4:30pm Friday 18th December 2009 in


THE final plans for Southampton’s £15m Sea City Museum can today be exclusively unveiled.

The museum, which will reshape the city’s Civic Centre forever, is expected to attract 150,000 visitors a year.

The Daily Echo can reveal a dramatic cruise-liner inspired extension which will be the largest museum display area in Hampshire.

Known as “The Pavilion”, Southampton City Council hopes it will bring international blockbuster exhibitions to the city for the first time.

The old magistrates’ courts will be transformed into two permanent exhibitions, titled “Southampton’s Titanic Story” and “Gateway to the World”.

Southampton’s Titanic story will be told through the eyes of the crew and community to which they belonged.

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Comments(14)

Redback says...
4:43pm Fri 18 Dec 09

Big boat sank.
*yawns*
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Why are we so obsessed with commemorating a major engineering failure? Is this going to inject a bit of vibrancy and life into Southampton? I think not.
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I'm predicting its closure or 'repositioning' within 7 years of opening.

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Stephen J says...
5:15pm Fri 18 Dec 09

"...which will be the largest museum display area in Hampshire." If so, that's £15m spread pretty thin!

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housewife says...
5:23pm Fri 18 Dec 09

Waste of money.
Build it in the civic without an extension if at all.
Where do they get 150,000 visitors a year from?
Southampton's existing museums shut half the time because of low numbers.
I'll start the betting with 5 visitors a day on a quiet day - so around 30,000 in a good year.

Utter waste of money.

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damien thorn says...
6:02pm Fri 18 Dec 09

im sure the predator class will love mugging all the visitors.

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soton1980 says...
6:04pm Fri 18 Dec 09

The inside bit looks good, but I still think the location is totally wrong and the building is very ugly from the outside. Plus I just don't think it will be advertised well enough. Portsmouth do quite well in advertising their historic dockyard and other attractions, whereas Southampton doesn't (in my opinion, at least).

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erica smith says...
6:29pm Fri 18 Dec 09

regardless of where the venue is there is a definite need for this museum in the City because of the great historical interest this has not only because of the nature of the ship, it's construction details etc but also the manner of its demise BUT most importantly because at that time there was not one family in Northam or Chapel who did not have a member of their family on-board as a member of the crew. It is high time such a memorial in one place for all those people was realised. Additionally, it will also bring more revenue to the City as so many people who live abroad will be wanting to explore and research members of their family who were on-board.

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joenice says...
7:19pm Fri 18 Dec 09

I just hope they look at all the history of Southampton as there really is a suprising amount. Good luck.

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Redback says...
7:35pm Fri 18 Dec 09

erica smith wrote:
regardless of where the venue is there is a definite need for this museum in the City because of the great historical interest this has not only because of the nature of the ship, it's construction details etc but also the manner of its demise BUT most importantly because at that time there was not one family in Northam or Chapel who did not have a member of their family on-board as a member of the crew. It is high time such a memorial in one place for all those people was realised. Additionally, it will also bring more revenue to the City as so many people who live abroad will be wanting to explore and research members of their family who were on-board.
There's already a memorial. This is just a waste of tax payers money. Bring in revenue? Possibly for the 1st 5 years, but after that it's destined to be a white elephant.

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Condor Man says...
7:43pm Fri 18 Dec 09

Why not have a museum? SCC has wasted millions on community follies which have all been wound up recently. Surely we to improve the amenities in the city rather than just having shops and chavs

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Linesman says...
8:37am Sat 19 Dec 09

Redback wrote:
erica smith wrote: regardless of where the venue is there is a definite need for this museum in the City because of the great historical interest this has not only because of the nature of the ship, it's construction details etc but also the manner of its demise BUT most importantly because at that time there was not one family in Northam or Chapel who did not have a member of their family on-board as a member of the crew. It is high time such a memorial in one place for all those people was realised. Additionally, it will also bring more revenue to the City as so many people who live abroad will be wanting to explore and research members of their family who were on-board.
There's already a memorial. This is just a waste of tax payers money. Bring in revenue? Possibly for the 1st 5 years, but after that it's destined to be a white elephant.
There was a big surge in interest when the film was released, but that has now waned.
I cannot imagine that any passengers on cruise liners would want the pleasure of a visit to see what could possibly happen to them!
I believe that there is already a Titanic Museum in Belfast. I wonder whether any of the City Councillors who think that this is a good, sound investment, have checked to see how many tourists have flocked to Belfast to check out their museum!
I doubt it very much!

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goard says...
11:02am Sat 19 Dec 09

I think the majority of the City folk might just go once to look around. There is nothing wrong in having this kind of museum but the thing that hurts most is forking out all that money to build one tagged onto the Civic Centre which has classical lines and the lines figured for the museum clashes horribly. It just goes to show that the Planners already made up their minds they were going ahead with THEIR idea and be damned to the opinion of the electorate. I would not be surprised that the Bargate as a cafe is Signed Sealed and Delivered, again, disregarding how aghast we are at lowering the tone of these historic buildings.

goard

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Reality-man says...
1:38pm Sat 19 Dec 09

Why don't they also exhibit a large iceberg next to it which could double as an ice rink??!!

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housewife says...
4:43pm Sat 19 Dec 09

150,000 visitors a year is more than the Watercress line gets and more than all the other Southampton museums combined
(as per the Visit England 2008 report)

Who are they kidding?

Themselves maybe but not me.

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John P. Eaton says...
4:55pm Sun 10 Jan 10

For many years I have been visiting Southampton researching facts about Titanic. At the City Centre Library and archives I have always been greeted with attention and respect; the facilities have been made accessible and I have always been impressed by the friendliness of the librarians and archivists. As Southampton's importance in Titanic's story becomes widely recogninized throughout the world, it is important that the planned exhibition/museum of the City's maritime heritage will augment the present library/archive and give Southampton the position it as always deserved.

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GRAND ENTRANCE: An artist’s impression of the museum entrance at the Grand Hall of the old magistrates’ courts. NEW LOOK: Artist’s impression of the Pavillion extension on the west wing of Southampton’s Civic Centre. Cutaway of the Titanic museum

GRAND ENTRANCE: An artist’s impression of the museum entrance at the Grand Hall of the old magistrates’ courts.

NEW LOOK: Artist’s impression of the Pavillion extension on the west wing of Southampton’s Civic Centre.

Cutaway of the Titanic museum



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