My family visits the Pigeon Forge area every year and every year we have every intention of visiting the Titanic Museum. We never have, mostly because we love just sitting in the mountains and sharing old stories. On this trip to Branson- we did it and we enjoyed it.
It was myself, my husband, his parents, and our nine-year old who went to the museum on this rainy day. The line was very long but moved much quicker than I anticipated when we arrived. You should know that my daughter loves anything and everything about the Titanic and even though we have watched several documentaries, read books and completed research papers on it, we both still left the museum with new information and saw artifacts we hadn’t seen or heard of before.
It’s really great that it is a self-guided tour, so we breezed by the stuff we were familiar with and spent more time on things we weren’t as familiar with. The Jewish/Anne Frank/Nazi tie in was unexpected, but rather intriguing. I had read about a kosher kitchen years ago, so it was wonderful to learn and see more of it.
Trying to keep hold on the steepness (?) of the decks was very fun for my daughter and helped her form a better idea of the panic and fear passengers felt, as this was not an obstacle the she had thought about. However, her favorite interactive piece was the water bucket challenge, because she caused quite a stir around us when she held her hand in the cold water for ten minutes!
Young children might not find it super interesting, but it is a great way to build excitement and form a pathway for the importance of history in them.
We are glad we went.