Titanic Museum (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee)
The Titanic Museum is a two-story museum shaped like the RMS "Titanic". It is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and opened on April 8, 2010. It is built half-scale to the original ship. Similar to the one in Branson, Missouri, the museum holds 400 pre-discovery artifacts in twenty galleries. It is the largest permanent "Titanic" museum in the world. The structure is built in a pool to create the illusion of the "Titanic" at sea, and the 2-hour, self-guided tour is designed to give guests the sensation of being an  original passenger on the "Titanic"s 1912 maiden voyage. As guests enter, they are given a passenger boarding ticket. On this ticket is the name of an actual "Titanic" passenger and the class they were traveling. Guests will learn the individual stories of several passengers. In the "Titanic" Memorial Room, they will find out whether their ticketed passenger survived. The structure cost $25 million to build.