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| A beautiful Eagle ice sculpture |
The World’s Largest TITANIC Museum Attraction has been chosen as the host site for a National Ice Carving Association sanctioned competition to be held on Saturday, January 13, 2007, according to museum-attraction co-owner Mary Kellogg Joslyn.
The nation’s best ice sculptors will compete on-site from 8:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. at the Titanic Museum Attraction’s outdoor entertainment center by the ship’s bow. The event is free and open to the public. “This is a first for Titanic and for Branson,” Kellogg Joslyn said, “and the first of many special events coming to Titanic in 2007 to give our visitors something new and exciting to see when they come for a tour.”
The National Ice Carving Association (www.nica.org), headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, will award recognition and $4,000 in prize money to the top sculptors. Those wishing to enter the competition can obtain an application on the Titanic’s website at www.titanicbranson.com.
“I’m hoping one of the artists will be inspired to carve Titanic in ice,” Kellogg Joslyn said. “That would be wonderful.”
The World’s Largest TITANIC Museum Attraction is Branson’s new landmark tourist destination. The 17,000 square foot, ship-shaped structure – built half scale to Titanic’s original size – towers more than 100 feet above its anchored position on Highway 76. A 90-minute, self-guided tour covers 20 galleries on two decks where more than 400 priceless artifacts that once belonged to Titanic’s passengers or crew are on display. None of the artifacts were retrieved from the ocean’s floor. A creative mix of music from the period is accompanied by dramatic lighting, ambient sound, photographs, video and hands-on devices that give visitors the sensation of being an original passenger on Titanic’s 1912 maiden voyage.
Photo Credit: Photo from NICA Web Site Photo Gallery .