EXCLUSIVE DETAILS! TITANIC's HIDDEN ARTIFACTS

Telling a deeper story about passengers with a historic artifact display at TITANIC: The Exhibition in Orlando, Florida

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EXCLUSIVE TITANIC ARTIFACT FIRST-TIME PUBLIC UNVEILING

Humanizing History

A necklace that went on display at TITANIC: The Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, on June 11 might call to mind the romanticized image of Rose’s “Heart of the Ocean” pendant from the 1997 film. But beyond Hollywood's fiction, it’s the real artifacts—carefully recovered and preserved personal belongings—that carry the weight of true history.

Titanic carried 1,317 passengers when she left her final port on April 11, 1912. Recovered artifacts help tell their stories.

The newly conserved necklace fragments are both delicate and haunting. The piece is made of black glass heart-shaped beads and octagonal beads arranged in an intricate pattern and helps tell the story of passengers on board that fateful voyage in 1912.

This assemblage of fused objects and sediment later revealed its hidden contents.

THE AMAZING DISCOVERY

Recovered during a 2000 expedition, the necklace had remained hidden for decades, obscured inside a concretion, a hard mass formed by the fusion of sediment and multiple objects under extreme pressure and deep-sea conditions.

Fragments of the necklace are still intact. Organic material, like string, usually disintegrates unless shielded from the ocean's elements.