Tomasina Ray, president and director of RMS Titanic Inc., is an expert on the sinking of the Titanic more than 100 years ago in the North Atlantic when the ship struck an iceberg. Ray is leading Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, the newest installation at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, which opens this week.
NJ Spotlight News got a behind-the-scenes look of some of the scores of artifacts that will be on display.
“We have collected over 5,500 artifacts from the wreck site and it’s exciting to show over 100 of them here at the Liberty Science Center,” Ray said.
Visitors will be “given a boarding pass so they can identify with one of the passengers. And as they are going through the experience they’ll be able to understand a little more about their passenger experience through the construction, the passenger experience … all through the night of the sinking,” as well as the recovery efforts, Ray said.