The Lusitania Experience

From its grand construction to its tragic end, this immersive journey brings the legend to life with stunning high-tech visuals, artefacts and unforgettable AR & VR storytelling.  

Relive being hit by a torpedo on 7 May 1915 at ten past two, 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale. 

It may sound frightening, but remember that as my mother used to say ..."if your survive something then it's not a disaster - it's an experience".  

So imagine you were one of the 767 survivors and not one of the 1193 who perished and you'll have the time of your life experiencing other people's deaths.  After all, there's always someone worse off than yourself so cheer yourself up with some sentimental voyerism about the people who's lost lives caused Woodrow Wilson to eventually enter the First World War.  Remember yesterday's disaster is tomorrow's virtual reality experience, marketing opportunity and gift shop.

Young explorers can create their own masterpieces at drawing stations.  Imagine you are Admiral Hugo von Pohl waging a U-boat campaign and see how many passenger liners you can sink.  Practice causing havoc not just across the continent of Europe but also on the high seas in an attempt to scupper shipping.

Enjoy our U-20 experience.  It's like a U-2 concert but in a smaller space.  Then play at being  Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger trying to explain to Count Bernsdorff trying to explain to the Kaiser why you've just sunk what was obviously a passenger liner after telling the British Government you wouldn't stoop to that sort of thing only the other day.  Brainstorm hilarious excuses with your friends such as "we thought it was secretly carrying weapons".  And write in the margins of angry letters from Woodrow Wilson that "this is the most insolent thing in tone and bearing that I have had to read since the Japanese note last August."

Explore life aboard the Lusitania from stunning recreations of the most lavish spaces to harsh realities of below deck life. From the first-class dining room to the third class toilets.  Experience what it's like to pour salt water over furniture first hand and see what things were like for unreal using a virtual headset that you probably could have used at home for half the price because it's a lot cheaper than building physical sets.  

You'll completely forget that you're in a small warehouse on the south of the river Thames that no one knows what to do with because it stands on poisoned land occupied by an old gassworks.  Imagine seeing the Lusitania magestically floating down the Thames even though she sailed from Liverpool.  No point in mounting an experience there as they aren't silly enough or rich enough to buy our overpriced tickets.  

Remember it's a day out.  Like wandering aimlessly round a shopping centre but without having to make decisions to spend money because you already paid.

Experience the suffocation induced by the submersion of the mouth and nose in a liquid that many aboard Lusitania would have experienced by experiencing in our new Waterboarding experience.  Don't be scared, it may feel like dying but all our waterboarders have been highly trained by the best at in the business at the technique at a US Army base [Note: Entry to the Lusitania Experience also includes Free Entry to the Guantanamo Bay experience].

See the many articles never recovered from the seabed because the wreck is 93m underwater and you need to use mixed gasses and the wrek is covered in depth charges, hedgehog mines, fishing nets and sediment.  No watches, no plates, no jewlery, no cups and saucers, no clothes and no souveniers.  There's literally nothing to see here!

Note : The VR experience may contain some flashes at the point where the torpedo hits the ship and during the secondary explosion in the engine room which may trigger epileptic seizures.