Hear the story of the Titanic and see real artefacts from the ship.
Most of what we know about the Titanic comes secondhand. Films, dramatisations, books written by people who weren’t there. Standing in front of something that actually sailed on it is a different experience.
The Titanic Exhibition runs at P&J Live from 26 March to 12 April. The collection is the real thing: artefacts from the ship and the White Star Line, presented by historians who travel with the exhibition and can talk you through what you’re looking at.
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A few items are worth mentioning. There’s a four-page letter written on board by William Henry Harrison, private secretary to White Star Line chairman J. Bruce Ismay. A letter written at sea, on that ship, days before it sank. There’s also a deck chair recovered from the ocean just days after the sinking, one of only a handful that survived intact. And what’s believed to be the largest remaining piece of the Aft Grand Staircase.
These aren’t replicas.
The man who’s been down there
The exhibition includes a separate lecture series with Dik Barton, one of a very small number of people who have dived to the wreck site. He’s done it 22 times and been involved in recovering thousands of artefacts from the seabed.
His talk covers what the wreck site actually looks like, how deep-sea recovery operations work, and what it’s like to be at that depth. It runs about an hour, at 10:15am and 2:15pm Wednesday to Sunday while the exhibition is open.
Barton has been there physically, multiple times. That’s not a common thing.
The exhibition itself takes around 90 minutes to two hours, with no limit on how long you spend.
The Titanic Exhibition runs at P&J Live, Aberdeen from 26 March to 12 April 2026. More information and tickets at titanicaberdeen.com.
