Hot on the heels of the successful "Our Body" exhibit, the Detroit
Science Center has announced that "Shipwreck! Pirates and Treasure"
will open March 24 for a five-month run.
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Todd Slisher, vice president of science programs at the Science
Center, went to Tampa to see the exhibit first-hand and then lobbied to
bring it to Detroit. "Shipwreck!" comes on the heels of the successful
exhibit "Our Body: The Universe Within," which featured human corpses
preserved through a process called plastination, where bodily fluids
are extracted and then replaced with plastic. The year-long exhibit,
which ended Jan. 6, attracted 275,000 visitors, generating about $6.1
million in gross ticket sales.
Slisher says the Science Center was on the hunt for a successful follow-up.
"We
definitely wanted something big. We were looking for the next
blockbuster and the 'Shipwreck!' exhibit is a great find, like buried
treasure. Just the atmosphere of the exhibit is incredible," he says.
"It's evocative of the high seas and pirates. It is very well
constructed and incorporates not only science, but the engineering
technology of underwater archaeology."
The Science Center hopes
"Shipwreck!" attracts at least 100,000 visitors, Slisher says.
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