UNTIL SATURDAY 4/7
GENS PUMPS. Of. Burjassot, 54
After the multimedia exhibition on La R.U.T.A., Bombes Gens offers us another trip to the past. But now we leave the car in the discotheque's parking lot to board (literal) in what was the largest passenger ship in the world: el Titanic, the indestructible buc that (oh, surprise!) it sank on its maiden voyage on 1912, after hitting an iceberg. More than eighty years later, James Cameron would make his story immortal with the film starring Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet, and today it is Madrid Digital Arts (MAD) who offers us an immersive experience to get to know the most legendary ship in history, still today surrounded by a fog of riddles. It sank in the middle of the Atlantic when there were no mobile phones or anything like that and it rests at a depth of almost four kilometers, which resulted in us not knowing its exact location or being able to explore it for more than seventy years.
With eleven different spaces and a reinforced scenographic deployment, The legend of the Titanic it is the largest exhibition held so far at the cultural center of Marxalenes. You are invited to board the ship, where you will find clothes that are more than a hundred years old and in perfect condition, as well as a life jacket and other items linked to the British shipping company White Star Line and the RMS Olympic (the twin ship of the Titanic), i props used in the film. But the core of the exhibition is the almost thirty-minute audiovisual piece in the large immersive room. Here you will see first hand and from the inside the construction of the RMS Titanic at the Harland shipyards & Wolff from Belfast on the White Star Line (the Irish say scornfully that they build ships while the English sink them). The monstrosity that was that mythical ship will pass by you and you will take a look at the third class cabins, in the courtyard with second-class plants, in the first class smoking lounge and the boiler room where the workers nurtured the monster without rest; all this, following in the footsteps of a father looking for his daughter Elisabeth. You will cross the ice of the cursed iceberg to witness the fateful accident, experience in first person how the water enters the ship until it sinks and you will float next to the lifeboats of survivors who watch from a distance as the catastrophe consumes, while waiting for the rescue of the Carpathia. Finally, in the 5D interactive metaverse room — also dubbed in Valencian (viva!) —, you will travel the liner from top to bottom, meeting all types of travelers, to end up going out for a breath of fresh air at the bow of the boat while sailing. If you get carried away and put your imagination to it, you will feel the wind in your face. S.M.
