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March 22, 2007

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Media Contact: Rodger Pille, piller@cincymuseum.org, (513) 287-7054

Titanic Events at Museum Center

Lectures, presentations and a party highlight upcoming exhibit programming

leading into 95th anniversary of ship launch

CINCINNATI, OHIO—The grandest, most luxurious and easily the most storied ship in history, the RMS Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912.

As the 95th anniversary of its launch approaches, Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal commemorates the occasion with a number of special events, designed to accompany the blockbuster showing of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. The exhibit is on display at Museum Center through May 6, 2007.

For ticket information and reservations to all programs listed below, call (513) 721-7021 or visit www.cincymuseum.org.

CSI: Titanic

Titanic was the largest manmade moving object of its time with a strong double bottom and water-tight bulkheads that many thought made the ship unsinkable. Yet a glancing blow from an iceberg sent the ship to the ocean bottom with more than 1,500 passengers and crewmembers. What role did materials play in the disaster? Was the steel too brittle or were the wrought iron rivets too weak? Dr. Jennifer Hooper McCarty, a materials scientist who specializes in the analysis of historic materials, presents the latest findings.
March 27 at 7 p.m.
Admission: $25 includes 5 p.m. ticket to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition.

Tea-on-the-Titanic Lecture

Visit the Newsreel Theater as the proprietors of Churchill’s Tea Room present and demonstrate high tea as it would have been served on the Titanic.
April 3 at 4 p.m.
Admission: $20 includes 5 p.m. ticket to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition.

Haute Cuisine on the High Seas

Chef John Kinsella of the Midwest Culinary Institute discusses the role of cuisine on the Titanic and how the famous last meal on the Titanic was prepared and served to its elite first-class passengers.
April 10 at 7 p.m.
Admission: $25 includes 5 p.m. ticket to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition.

Third-Class Bash

Relive the famous movie scene as Museum Center’s South Gallery is turned into the Titanic’s steerage quarters, with beer, “pub food” and Cincinnati’s favorite Irish band – Roger Drawdy and the Firestarters – providing great musical entertainment.
April 12, from 6 to 10 p.m.
Admission: $35 includes food, three beer tickets, music and a ticket to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition that evening.

Cincinnati Museum Center gratefully acknowledges operating and capital support from the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County and the State of Ohio.

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal is home to the Cincinnati History Museum, Duke Energy Children's Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science, the Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater, and the Cincinnati Historical Society Library. It is a nationally recognized educational and research resource and one of the top cultural attractions in the Midwest. Cincinnati Museum Center serves more than 1.47 million visitors annually, reaching out to almost 200,000 young people through hands-on exhibits and programs. Originally built in 1933 as the Union Terminal train station, the building is a national historic landmark and was renovated and reopened as Cincinnati Museum Center in 1990. For information, call (513) 287-7000 or 1-800-733-2077 or visit www.cincymuseum.org.

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