Join us each Tuesday in August for special events and activities to commemorate the final weeks of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition , closing September 9! Included in “Titanic Tuesday” events are two free lectures, one with Professor Douglas Bartlett with Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the other with esteemed Mexican author Guadalupe Loaeza. Click here for lecture details.
Visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets for “Titanic Tuesdays” in advance online, by phone at 877.946.7797 or in person at the Museum’s Visitor Services Desks. Titanic is a timed -entry exhibition.
Actors portraying notable Titanic passengers will be roaming the museum, interacting with visitors and sharing stories of Titanic . Perhaps you will meet the “unsinkable” Molly Brown, Benjamin Guggenheim, Lady Duff Gordon or Thomas Andrews!
11 AM to 4 PM
Bring your kids to a reading of “Ahoy, Titanic!” One of Titanic ’s notable passenger actors will read “Ahoy, Titanic!,” a colorfully illustrated story of the 1912 maiden voyage as told through the eyes of two children aboard the great ship. The book is also available in the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition store.
11:30 AM and 1:30 PM
Meet representatives from the San Diego History Center and learn about life in San Diego in 1912. The History Center will be at the Museum every Tuesday at 11 AM with items from their archives. Click here to view some of their historic photos from 1912 San Diego.
“Ghosts of the Abyss”
Sit back, relax and watch the incredible expedition led by James Cameron to the final resting place of Titanic two miles below the surface of the North Atlantic. Using state-of-the-art technology developed expressly for this expedition, Cameron and his crew are able to explore virtually all of the wreckage, inside and out, as never before.
1 PM (60 Min) and 4:30 PM (60 Min)
“ National Geographic - Secrets of the Titanic”
Join one of the century's most celebrated underwater expeditions with marine scientist and adventurer Robert Ballard as he searches for—and finds—the R.M.S. Titanic . The on-location footage presents this historic expedition as Ballard and his team are among the first humans to see Titanic since her sinking.
3:15 PM (55 Min)
Stop by the Replica Wireless Radio Display located near the exit of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition and learn how distress calls, including the first SOS in a major maritime disaster, were made from the great ship that fateful night in 1912. Learn about the two wireless radio operators aboard the doomed ship and see a timeline of all known messages sent between Titanic and other nearby ships and shore stations the night of the sinking. Thank you to the volunteers of the USS Midway Museum Radio Room who designed and built this fascinating demonstration.
Visitors to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition each Tuesday in August will receive $10 off a meal of $40 or more at the Prado when they show their Titanic admission ticket. Offer is only valid on Tuesdays in August with presentation of a Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition admission ticket for the same day.