Do you think this is insensitive? (Concerning the Titanic)?

Question

I live near Branson, Missouri...known for all of it's tourist attractions. They have built a Titanic museum and they have hundreds of artifacts from the wreck. Anyway, they have actually constructed this huge ship that looks like the Titanic which you walk into and view everything...so the building is the ship. You can see this gigantic thing from the road and they have built a little lagoon around so it looks like it is floating. This alone would make me feel like it was a bit inappropriate, but on top of all of this they have built this huge iceberg that's crushing in to the side of the ship. Anyone else think this is wrong?

Answer 1

What??? A huge fake iceberg? You have got to be joking. That's like building a World Trade Center memorial with 2 huge planes sticking out of the side. It seems inappropriate to me and a bit tacky.

*but, then again, the whole reason there is a Titanic museum is because of the iceberg. It can't be ignored but that seems like overkill.

**Oh my god. I just looked at a photo. You enter the building through a door carved into the iceberg. That's really cheesy. It almost makes a mockery of what happened.

Answer 2

Nope - have seen the Titanic exhibit in St Pete, FL and we need to remember the many lessons from this disaster.

1. radio room went to sleep after midnight in many ships - could have saved hundreds
2. Third class passengers were blockaded from getting to lifeboats
3. What lifeboats there were = were too few and not even full
4. Steel used in hull had not been fully tested in freezing waters (actually turned very brittle in the cold)
5. CEO of the cruise line forced the captain to make the run thru the icebergs at full speed, even though ice bergs had been sighted, just to make the quickest Atlantic Crossing on the first try.
6. Crew had fought a fire in one of the coal rooms for two days prior to the sinking.
7. Actual size of the hole was less than the front of a refrigerator,
sliced over 5 sections of the hull. Such a compromise could not be overcome.

We need to remember this tragedy.

Answer 3

Yes it is wrong. I believe the very last survivor recently passes away too. People will do anything to make money. I thought the movie Titanic would put a human feel to the sterile telling of the events but apparently greed rears it's ugly once again and the tragic loss of life is not important. If consumers did not visit this monstrosity it would soon go out of business. By going they are helping the callous display along.

Answer 4

I don't See any thing wrong with a museum. But I constructing a building to look like the ship and the ice berg thing it a bit to far. Its almost morbid.

Answer 5

Tacky and tasteless, yes. Typically American, absolutely. Wrong? I can't say. Were I a family member of a survivor I might think otherwise. But I'd never visit such a tourist trap anyway.

Answer 6

I don't really see anything wrong with it as long as it is a museum.