Titanic Exhibit Features Perfume Vials
The Royal BC Museum’s “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” opens on Saturday in Victoria, B.C., CANADA. It will run from April 14-October 14, 2007. This traveling exhibit features nearly 300 artifacts recovered from Titanic’s undersea resting place in a series of galleries that trace the life of this majestic ship.
One of the passengers on that fateful journey was 47-year old British perfumer Adolphe Saalfeld. Saalfeld brought 64 vials of perfume with him, and 62 of the 65 vials have been recovered from a leather case on the ocean floor. Six of these small perfume vials are in display in the Life on Board Room, where you can actually smell the fragrances through holes in the plexiglass case.
What an incredible opportunity to smell genuine, turn-of-the-last-century fragrances.
And, fortunately, Adolphe Saalfeld survived the sinking.
For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
