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By Ken Storey
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Titanic: The Experience is now host to fifteen of the finest pieces of jewelry recovered from the famed wreck site. The new exhibit is in the midst of a multi-year multi-state tour. The jewelry began its tour in Atlanta before the stop here and a stop in Las Vegas at another of Premier Exhibitions Inc. Titanic museums. The exhibit features fifteen stunning pieces of jewelry found in an unmarked leather Gladstone bag recovered from the wreck site. The collection includes diamond and sapphire rings, brooches, necklaces, cuff links and a gold pocket watch. The exhibit will stay at the International Drive museum until March 12, 2013. The Jewels of Titanic exhibit is included in regular paid admission, with regular tickets beginning at $23.38.
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Titanic: The Experience is now host to fifteen of the finest pieces of jewelry recovered from the famed wreck site. The new exhibit is in the midst of a multi-year multi-state tour. The jewelry began its tour in Atlanta before the stop here and a stop in Las Vegas at another of Premier Exhibitions Inc. Titanic museums. The exhibit features fifteen stunning pieces of jewelry found in an unmarked leather Gladstone bag recovered from the wreck site. The collection includes diamond and sapphire rings, brooches, necklaces, cuff links and a gold pocket watch. The exhibit will stay at the International Drive museum until March 12, 2013. The Jewels of Titanic exhibit is included in regular paid admission, with regular tickets beginning at $23.38.
The Orlando based museum was in the news last year when its parent company, Premier Exhibitions, Inc., announced it would put its collection up for a closed auction bid. The company, whose success in the mid-2000s fell onto harder times in 2009 with the recession and controversy, including a 20/20 special weeks after which the CEO of Premier resigned, surrounding it's 'Bodies...The Exhibition' which features real human bodies (and is also currently on exhibit at the company's International Drive exhibition space replacing the Star Trek exhibit), shocked many when it never announced a winning bidder on the auction. That was in April of 2012. It wasn't until seven months later that Premier Exhibitions, Inc finally announced albeit extremely vaguely stating only that the winner is a group of individuals. Premier did state that the "consortium" would use the collection "for educational, regional economic development and cultural purposes," a requirement placed upon the items from an earlier court ruling that finally gave Premier full ownership of the pieces. A subsidiary of Premier, RMS Titanic Inc., is also the only company allowed to recover pieces from the wreck site.
While few details on the new owners have been provided there is still a market for exhibits surrounding the ill-fated ship as exampled by the Titanic Belfast exhibit in Ireland that within 9 months since its opening has seen over 650,000 visitors, well beyond all expectation and making it instantly one of Ireland's top tourist attractions.
