(Located at 7324 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819)

If you have time whilst visiting Disney World in Orlando, why not visit the interactive Titanic museum experience on International Drive? It’s actually really quite informative and enjoyable. It costs around $20 per adult and the tour typically lasts about an hour.

You might think before you go what Florida has to do with the Titanic, but there is plenty of history, artifacts and images within the exhibit. It starts with your guide, usually an Irishman introducing the history of Harland & Wolff the famous ship builder from Belfast, Northern Ireland – sadly no longer in existence. Actor/historians tell the stories of the Titanic and its passengers and crew. This ship building company was the first to big super cruise liners in the world, three to be precise.

Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable, and her designers felt with the latest technology nothing could stop the ship. Alas unfortunately how wrong they were. The tour starts with a video extract from the early 1900s. There are posters on the walls as you enter with biographies of the main personalities involved in the design, construction and ownership of the Titanic.

JP Morgan, known today as one of the world’s leading Investment Bank’s, actually bought the Titanic and her sister ships at the time. It was the main American involvement with the ships. RMS Titanic as she was known, where RMS stood for ‘Royal Mail Ship’, was commissioned by the British to act as a postal ship transporting goods to and from the USA and UK.

As you go through the tour you get an idea of what the sheer scale of the ship was like, how building conditions were and what would have happened when the passengers had to abandon ship. The tour guide provides an interesting character insight and actually does a good job at playing out the part of a third class passenger.

The rooms have been recreated from a first class suite and there are further recreations of the impressive Grand Staircase, the Bridge and more. Over 200 artifacts and historical treasures officially purchased from auction of ship memorabilia are available to view.

As you come through closer to the edge some maps and drawings of the ship are displayed on the walls and the names of all the passengers and crew who survived and died are listed on tablets.

There is a gift shop and plenty of items to browse. Overall would rate this as an Orlando exhibit worth seeing.