Titanic and Unsinkable Molly Brown are the two names in history that are now almost one and the same.
You can not discuss one without mentioning the other. Hence when this year we acknowledge the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, Molly Brown, her experience, her life and spirit will be discussed and attributed throughout the country with great fervor as well.
As the 100th Anniversary unfolds, the Molly Brown House Museum-long-time home of Titanic’s most famous survivor, will host year-long event with many Titanic-related exhibits including ‘Heroine of the Titanic’ exhibit, programs and lectures opening Feb. 15 and running through December. This event will reflect upon Margaret Brown’s experience from bow to stern with accounts, artifacts and photographs from that fateful April 1912 voyage.
Molly Brown House Museum, through various programs hopes to connect visitors to the historic event that still compels us to wonder at the capacity of the human skills, flaw and resilience. Throughout this event, visitors will find themselves transported back to 1912 where they will be able to discover Margaret’s life changing Titanic experience and learn about her spirit and conviction that allowed her to become the heroine of the Titanic.
Molly’s real name was Margaret ‘Maggie’ Tobin Brown, but she’s best known as the petulant, indestructible Unsinkable ‘Molly’ Brown. Beginning this month, thousands of visitors to the Museum will explore the legend, lore and legacy of this larger-than-life Titanic heroine.
Molly Brown House Museum is certain of generating strong international and national press, through priceless and unique artifacts and photographs of the Titanic's fateful voyage, which Molly survived 100 years ago.
"They are already taking reservations and getting calls from all over the world," said museum spokeswoman Danielle Dascalos.
The Museum has been open to the public since 1970 when it was saved from the threat of demolition by a group of local citizens who joined forces to preserve this home of Molly Brown. This group later organized as the local non-profit Historic Denver Inc. and began preserving Denver’s historic places. Historic Denver Inc restored the house back to its Brown era magnificence and since then has continued to own and operate the museum for more than four decades now.
Today, one can visit Brown’s lavish 1889 home, designed by architect William Lang and learn about Molly Brown’s incredible life, from instant mining-town wealth, to labor reform and the stages of New York.
