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Take a look inside the Titanic Belfast attraction
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In this photo of Tuesday March 13, 2012, a model-like sculpture of the Titanic on display at the new 100 million British pounds ($157 million)Titanic Belfast Visitor's Center. Celebrating the Titanic ship and the people who built her in the Titanic Belfast, with its four prow-like wings jutting jauntily skyward beside the River Lagan on the site of the old Harland and Wolff shipyard. Titanic, then the world's largest, most luxurious ocean liner, left this spot on April 2, 1912 on its maiden voyage from England to New York, and twelve days later, it stuck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank in the early hours of April 15, and more than 1,500 of the 2,200 people on board died. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)Peter Morrison / AP
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - MARCH 13: The Titanic Belfast attraction nears completion in The Titanic Quarter on March 13, 2012 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Belfast's Titanic Quarter is a regeneration area on the original site of the Harland and Wolff shipyard - birthplace of RMS Titanic. The Titanic Belfast Experience is a new £90 million visitor attraction which opens on March 31, 2012. The ill-fated passenger liner sank after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic on the night of April 15, 1912 with the loss of 1517 lives. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)Peter Macdiarmid / Getty ImagesIn this photo of Tuesday March 13, 2012, a model-like sculpture of the Titanic on display at the new 100 million British pounds ($157 million)Titanic Belfast Visitor's Center. Celebrating the Titanic ship and the people who built her in the Titanic Belfast, with its four prow-like wings jutting jauntily skyward beside the River Lagan on the site of the old Harland and Wolff shipyard. Titanic, then the world's largest, most luxurious ocean liner, left this spot on April 2, 1912 on its maiden voyage from England to New York, and twelve days later, it stuck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank in the early hours of April 15, and more than 1,500 of the 2,200 people on board died. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)Peter Morrison / AP
Northern Ireland's capital, Belfast, scarred by 30 years of Catholic-Protestant violence and mired in Europe's economic doldrums, is gambling on a gleaming new Titanic tourist attraction to bring it fame beyond the Troubles — and a renewed sense of civic pride.
"What happened to the Titanic was a disaster," said Tim Husbands, chief executive of Titanic Belfast, a 100 million pound ($160 million) visitor attraction due to open March 31, in advance of the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking. "But the ship wasn't."
Belfast is banking on the global reach of the Titanic name, a fame given new momentum by James Cameron's hit 1997 movie, which set Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio's star-crossed love story aboard the doomed liner.
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - MARCH 13: (EDITORS NOTE: IMAGES OF TITANIC BELFAST ARE EMBARGOED UNTIL 1700 hrs ON MARCH 14, 2012) An employee of The Titanic Belfast attraction stands in front of screens showing computer generated images of a restaurant on The Titanic on March 13, 2012 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Titanic Belfast Experience is a new £90 million visitor attraction which opens on March 31, 2012. The ill-fated passenger liner sank after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic on the night of April 15, 1912 with the loss of 1517 lives. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)Peter Macdiarmid / Getty ImagesIn this photo of Tuesday March 13, 2012 a replica of the the famous staircase onboard the Titanic Ship is on display in the new 100 million British pounds ($157 million)Titanic Belfast Visitor's Center, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Celebrating the ship and the people who built her is the aim of Titanic Belfast, a shiny newPeter Morrison / APBELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - MARCH 13: (EDITORS NOTE: IMAGES OF TITANIC BELFAST ARE EMBARGOED UNTIL 1700 hrs ON MARCH 14, 2012) A visitor takes a phone picture of the slipway at the Titanic Belfast attraction on March 13, 2012 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Titanic Belfast Experience is a new £90 million visitor attraction which opens on March 31, 2012. The ill-fated passenger liner sank after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic on the night of April 15, 1912 with the loss of 1517 lives. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)Peter Macdiarmid / Getty ImagesIn this Tuesday March 13, 2012 Brett Irwin of the Public Record Office moves old plans of Harland and Wolff ships from the 19th century in the Titanic Drawing Offices, situated close to the new £100 million Titanic Belfast Vistor Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The plans for Titanic and sister ship Olympic were devised by Harland&Wolff in this building. Celebrating the ship and the people who built her is the aim of Titanic Belfast, a shiny newPeter Morrison / APA Titanic related mural (L) is pictured near a Loyalist paramilitary mural (R) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on March 13, 2012. The world's biggest Titanic visitor attraction is to open in its Belfast birthplace later this month, 100 years to the day since the doomed ocean liner was completed in the same shipyards. Northern Ireland hopes the eye-catching centre will kick-start its tourism economy and encourage travellers from the key emerging markets in Asia to visit to the province. AFP PHOTO/ PETER MUHLY (Photo credit should read PETER MUHLY/AFP/Getty Images)PETER MUHLY / AFP - Getty Images
