Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition, a collection of artefacts from the former White Star liner, opens at London's Science Museum on 16 May.

More than 200 items - raised 2.5 miles from the seabed, 90 years after the ship sank on its maiden voyage - will form the display, together with re-creations of the ship's bridge and first and third class cabins.

Amongst the artefacts will be a 2.5ton section of the ship's hull, the original ship's bell, White Star Line china and passengers' personal effects.

The exhibition takes the form of galleries, commencing with the building of the ship in the Design and Construction Story.

This is followed by the Discovery and Recovery Gallery, showing the technology required to retrieve the items from the sea bed and preserve them for the future and Life on Board, a full size reconstruction of Titanic's upper class accommodation.

The Passenger Gallery relates the story of the passengers themselves and there is a recreation of a third-class hallway and cabin.

Visitors can also visit a reconstruction of the ship's bridge and interact with a real iceberg in the Iceberg Gallery.

To access the exhibition, visitors are given a boarding pass which will carry the name of a real Titanic passenger. On arrival in the final gallery, the Memorial Hall, which provides a list of all 2,228 people on board the ship, they will discover if the person named on their ticket was rescued or lost at sea.

The exhibition, which runs until 28 September 2003, is produced by Clear Channel Exhibitions in association with RMS Titanic.

The Science Museum is currently both London Tourist Board Visitor Attraction of the Year and English Tourism Council Visitor Attraction of the Year. Details: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/press/titanic