Titanic Experience

This museum is located in the old White Star Line building in Cobh (formerly Queenstown), which is where people would have bought their tickets for a journey on the company's liners. Cobh/Queenstown was the Titanic's last stop before the ship came to grief in the mid-Atlantic, and the museum focuses particularly on the Irish passengers who boarded there. At the beginning, you are given a 'boarding pass' with one of the real Queenstown passengers' names on it, and after you have worked your way through the various video presentations, recreations of Titanic cabins and displays of artefacts, you find out whether the passenger on your boarding pass survived the sinking. As a wheelchair/scooter using visitor, I felt able to join in with all parts of the experience at the museum. There's a wheelchair lift to get into the building which you can operate yourself (unlike some places where you have to send in a person who can climb stairs to ask for help, which isn't really proper access). When you get inside, it's sometimes a little tight around the corners, but given the importance of housing the museum in the historic setting of the White Star Line museum, I felt that a good job had been done in making the access as good as possible.

Exhibition very interesting. You are given a ticket as one of the original passengers and have a guide to talk you through the experience . A hologram also talks you through interesting facts and figures. Long enough to be interesting but short enough that children will not be bored. Allow an hour.