Ninety-seven years after it sailed from Liverpool, the Titanic has finally reached her intended destination - New York City. A new exhibition, 'Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition', showcases hundreds artifacts from the 'unsinkable' ship, many of them on display for the first time after being recovered from the ocean floor.

The exhibition offers visitors a glimpse into life on board the Titanic, with replicas of first and third class passenger cabins, ship passageways, and the grand staircase.

Visitors move through a series of dramatic galleries that explain the ship's construction, to the ill-fated night of the sinking. The display also includes a large block of ice that visitors can touch, to reinforce just how cold it was when the ship went down.

Cheryl Mure said, "It's a very personal, emotional journey. When you enter the exhibition you receive a boarding pass and that's a replica ticket from White Star Line and on the back of it is the story of a real Titanic passenger. So you find out your name, your age, your class of service, where you're traveling to and from, a little bit about yourself. But you don't know your fate on the night of the sinking until the final gallery in the exhibition and that's where we have the ship's manifest posted on the wall. You take your boarding pass and you look for your name and you find out whether you survived or perished."

The Titanic set off on her maiden voyage on April the 10th, 1912 from Southampton, England. On April the 14th, the ship hit an iceberg and sank two hours and 45 minutes later in the early hours of April the 15th. More than 1500 people died.

Today, the Titanic wreck site is located 963 miles north east of New York and lies 12,500 feet below the ocean's surface.

(CCTV August 14, 2009)