2012: a new project for La Cité de la Mer
Work at La Cité de la Mer to make room for the Titanic exhibition
Work at the location of the future exhibition got underway at the start of the summer with a local company from Cherbourg. A staircase is being built at present to link the baggage hall where the exhibition dedicated to emigration will be housed and the Titanic exhibition area on the ground floor.
At the same time, La Cité de la Mer staff and the exhibition’s scenographer are working together on the museographical aspects: the choice of images, videos and interactive elements amongst others. La Cité de la Mer’s President Mr Bernard Cauvin made a trip to Ellis Island (New York) and Halifax (Canada) in September, bringing back other iconographic and historical resources to enrich the future exhibition. In Paris, set designers are working hard on the interior design and in particular the identical reconstruction of one part of the liner’s hull. You can now follow work at the site every month!
Construction of the staircase
Bernard Cauvin with Diana Pardue, Director of the Ellis Island museum and her Deputy Director in front of the permanent exhibition.
Partnerships created around the Titanic
La Cité de la Mer’s project for 2012 covers the Titanic and emigration in Europe. In order to make it as rich as possible, not only from a historical point of view but also iconograpically, as well as to ensure its quality and scientific validation, La Cité de la Mer has developed and relies on a large network of partners. This work has opened up new perspectives and given added value to the very rich and specific themes covered in Cherbourg.
From Southampton City Council to the AEMI: prestigious partners
La Cité de la Mer has also joined together with the Titanic Cities network via the Cherbourg urban community. This network reunites the towns with links to the mythical liner (Belfast, Liverpool, Southampton, Halifax, Cobh, etc.) and through each town, museums and institutions such as the National Museum Northern Ireland in Belfast and Southampton City Council. It is also part of a wider network which includes private correspondents and international institutions linked to the themes of migration and transatlantic travel. This network brings together the biggest maritime museums, the numerous entities of the AEMI(Association of European Migration Institutions) and the international network of Migrations Institutions such as the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven, a town twinned with Cherbourg since 1960, the Mu.MA – Istituzione Musei del Mare e della Navigazione in Genoa or Ellis Island Immigration Museum in the USA.
