The nearest they’ll come to an icy grave off the Canadian coast is when they check their boarding pass-style tickets – and each has the name of one of the ship’s original passengers and crew – at the end of the tour, when they can check if the name they’re holding is on the survivors list.

The scenery from the Titanic, which has some full-scale sections including the ballroom and the grand staircase, is being brought in from the U.S. and assembled at Kiel Ostseehalle.

Various rooms have artifacts taken from the wreck, which are being displayed in glass cases that also have photographs of the various pieces that were taken when they were lying at the murky bottom of the Atlantic.

Its June 12 opening is timed to coincide with “Kieler Woche,” Europe’s biggest maritime festival that attracts 3.5 million visitors each year.

The last time Germany staged such an exhibition, in Hamburg during ’97 and ’98, nearly 1.5 million people showed up.