PHOTO OF EXHIBIT BY DENISE BONURA

The RMS Titanic may have sunk in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, but the exhibition currently on display about its doomed maiden voyage has proven to be “unsinkable” at the Carnegie Science Center.

“TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition” has broken attendance records as the most visited of all the center’s traveling exhibits in the PPG Science Pavilion. More than 82,000 people have walked through the Titanic exhibit since it opened on Oct. 21, surpassing the previous record held by “Mummies of the World: The Exhibition” in 2019.

The Titanic exhibit, which closes on Monday, April 15 — the anniversary of its sinking — provides more than 150 authentic artifacts in meticulously recreated rooms. Visitors are given a boarding pass (featuring the name of a real passenger) and learn whether the person survived the sinking by scanning the card at the end of the exhibit.  

In the exhibit’s final weeks, the science center will on March 9 award a Science Center prize pack to the 1,912th visitor. That number commemorates the year in which the Titanic sailed from Southampton, England on its way to New York City.

The 1,912th visitor will win a Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh family membership, four admission passes to the Titanic exhibit and Titanic-related merchandise. That visitor must answer a trivia question about the Titanic to secure the prize.

To accompany the exhibit, the center’s Rangos Giant Cinema is showing the 1997 “Titanic” movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, on select Saturdays through April 13.

There is an extra charge to see the Titanic exhibit beyond the science center’s regular admission price.