The Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney is planning an international tour of our highly immersive, artefact and multi-media packed exhibit ‘James Cameron – Challenging the Deep’ and is seeking expressions of interest from potential host museums for the North American leg starting in late 2020 – early 2021.
Beginning with the 14-year-old science enthusiast from Chippawa Canada, who builds his first submersible and tests it with his pet mouse as pilot, the exhibit takes visitors on a 45 year journey and 8 deep ocean expeditions with Cameron to Titanic, Bismarck, extreme ocean environments and finally to the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench in a unique submersible he built in secret in Australia. The exhibit blends four cinema-scale projection screens, programmed lighting and a continuous soundtrack into a single seamless immersive environment – avoiding the common museum pitfall of too much sound in not enough space.
Artefacts include miniatures, models and costumes from Cameron’s underwater sci-fi epic ‘The Abyss’; costumes, props, models and Cameron’s own script from ‘Titanic’; ROVs from three expeditions to Titanic and to Bismarck; artefacts from the science, design and construction of the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER; a live science demonstration growing rusticles; and specimens collected in the Mariana Trench by HMS Challenger in 1875 and by Cameron in 2012.
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In the seven months from opening to 30 January there have been 120,000 ticketed visitors to the exhibit which closes in Sydney mid-2019. The exhibit occupies 400 – 500 square metres and requires a ceiling height of just under 5 metres. Venues will need to meet international museum environmental and security standards. For additional information about the exhibit or to express interest please contact Richard Wood, Creative Producer – Manager USA Programs (Richard.Wood@sea.museum) or Will Mather, Project Manager ( Will.Mather@sea.museum) at the Australian National Maritime Museum
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