September 5, 2010 16:03 by
megUnsurprisingly, Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition at Melbourne Museum has generated an enormous number of enquiries, from folk coming forward with their own stories and artefacts to folk claiming ancestry to crew or passengers.
Photo: Jo Philo Source: Museum Victoria
Its also generated some unusual questions too, including:
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can I have my wedding photographs taken on the Grand Staircase?
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how do you make an ice wall?
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what's the music playing in the background?
But I think today's question takes the cake - an email came in to the Discovery Centre inbox: Hi, I was in Melbourne last week and saw the Titanic exhibition. I loved one of the quotes on the wall in the iceberg room and wanted to get one as a tattoo, problem is I can't remember which quote it was and I live in NSW. Is there any chance you could send me a list of those particular quotes?
List sent:
"I hope we get out of this alright. I have a wife and 5 kiddies at home."
Robert Wareham, Steward
"We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen."
Benjamin Guggenheim
"For God’s sake, it’s your last chance. Go."
Ida Strauss
"Women and children first’ someone was shouting these last few words over and over again. They meant my own safety but they also meant the greatest loss I’d ever suffered, the loss of my husband."
Charlotte Collyer
You'll be pleased to know that the enquirer went with Ida.
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