Experienced a fantastic weather on Saturday when we made our debut visit to the ArtScience Museum at the Marina Bay Sands. Our purpose was to visit the Titanic exhibition that opened on 29 October. I admit that I have never bothered to take the walk all the Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, due to the humid weather in Singapore, however, blessed with a great weather on Saturday morning, I had the opportunity to do so.
This lotus-inspired museum is definitely one of its kind, whenever I drive pass the highway, I will always take a second look at the structure. It’s just quite interesting how the structure look and it’s definitely another new place to visit.
I remember watching Titanic – the movie more than ten years back, with a romantic love story that weaved into the history of this great vessel that was built, a blockbuster of its time. All I knew was that this huge, apparently ‘unsinkable’ was built and sunk on her way through the Atlantic Ocean. I took immediate interest in the exhibition when Pei invited the cell along, as I was really interested in the history of Titanic, instead of reading thick books, I rather experience the journey.
Greeted by this huge image at the entrance, you will have an opportunity to take your photo with the vessel, and of course, at the end of the exhibition, you will be charged an exorbitant amount if you want to purchase the photo of yours, hence, I did not even bother with that, and went straight into the exhibition 
No photography allowed, hence, you have go experience it yourself.
At the entrance, you will be given a Boarding Pass, a replica of the original design. At the back of it recorded the details of the actual passenger onboard Titanic, and you will be able to find the passenger’s name at the memorial gallery to find out if he/she is alive or dead.
Entering the exhibition, you are brought through 9 galleries, where you experience with your six senses the Titanic. Besides seeing, reading and watching Titanic, you will be able to smell the ‘differences’ in Social Class, you get to feel and hear as you go along. I should not be revealing too much, go experience it yourselves.
A photo of us with our Boarding Passes, both of Pei and Sunny’s passengers did not survive but mine did, their passengers below the 3rd in Social Class and mine was 1st. At the memorial gallery, there is this wall with records of all the passsengers onboard Titanic and they were segmented according to the class they belonged to, it was quite apparent that there were more first class passengers who survived as compared to the third class passengers. Sociologically, it definitely speaks of the obvious – Class Stratification. Besides the point though, I believe it’s worthwhile to pay a visit to the Museum, walk through the journey of how Titanic was built and experience alittle of how class was so apparent in the olden days.
The Exhibition just opened and will run till end of April 2012, it’s definitely worthwhile to pay a visit. Details of the Exhibition can be found here. Tickets can be bought online on Sistic.com; also take advantage of the 20% discount available with OCBC Card.
