Marine Museum at Fall River
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| Location | 70 Water Street, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Coordinates | 41°42′10″N 71°09′49″W / 41.702779°N 71.163648°W |
| Type | Maritime museum |
The Marine Museum at Fall River in Fall River, Massachusetts is a historical and nautical museum with memorabilia, artifacts, and ship models of the Fall River Line and RMS Titanic. The museum houses a diverse collection which includes more than 150 scale models, 30,000 photographs, videos, uniforms, audio recordings and more.[1] The museum also claims to hosts a Titanic exhibition, which includes a 28-foot (8.5-meter) long scale model of the RMS Titanic used in Twentieth-Century-Fox's 1953 film Titanic.[2][3] The museum also houses models of the Fall River Line (which operated from 1847 to 1937), a fleet of steamships that carried passengers from New York and Boston to summer homes in Newport. Other exhibits follow the history of steam power at sea. The museum also sponsors a regular program of special events.
Notable items and exhibits
- A 28-foot model of RMS Titanic from the 1953 Twentieth Century Fox film
- A large scale model of the HMS Bounty donated by Turner Broadcasting
- Replica rooms from steamships such as those of the Fall River Line
- Underwater archaeology exhibit about Robert Ballard's RMS titanic dive
- Research Library
- Maritime objects from industries such as whaling, United Fruit, the Age of Exploration, and more
- Videos and photographs from the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institution discovery expedition[4]