Titanic Signature Project

Titanic was designed and built in Belfast

 

Background

The Titanic Signature Project (TSP) was identified in NITB’s Strategic Framework for Action 2004-2007 as one of five key tourism signature projects for development to enhance the Northern Ireland tourism offering. Identified for its potential to create international stand out and world class excellence for Northern Ireland, the Titanic Signature Project is based on the Titanic and Maritime Belfast Heritage theme.

 

The Project

The TSP embraces the development of a premium ‘must see’ visitor destination for the people of Belfast and visitors to the island of Ireland. The TSP will drive the investment of a £97 million world-class visitor attraction, the Titanic Signature Building (TSB). This iconic building will be located in the heart of Titanic Quarter and will be opened by 2012. It will showcase the story of the Titanic and the wider theme of shipbuilding and seafaring in Belfast, including the engineering, industrial, social, cultural and economic origins and connections.

 

The Objectives

The Titanic Signature Project’s objectives are to:

 

• Establish Belfast as the home of the Titanic and link it to the city’s maritime and industrial past, through its setting and existing heritage assets;

• Produce a strong sense of identity within the people of Belfast and Northern Ireland and foster pride in their heritage;

• Create a world-class visitor attraction based on the theme of the Titanic and the wider achievement of Belfast’s shipbuilding and maritime history;

• Create an innovative and original attraction of such scale, originality and innovation that it will become Northern Ireland’s largest and most successful built visitor attraction, having a significant positive impact of Belfast’s position as a tourist destination;

• Make a significant contribution to the regeneration of Titanic Quarter by restoring, making accessible and linking together the key heritage sites on Queens’s Island that form part of the Titanic story;

• Establish links between the key sites on Queen’s Island and Titanic-related sites elsewhere in Belfast.

 

Titanic Heritage Landmarks

Importantly, the TSP comprises the new Titanic Signature Building as well as a number of authentic heritage assets, including those directly linked to the Titanic such as:

• H&W Headquarters and Drawing Offices

• SS Nomadic & Hamilton Dock

• Titanic’s Dock & Pump-House

• Titanic and Olympic Slipways

• Lagan Legacy – MV Confiance

 

 

Titanic Quarter

The Titanic Signature Project will form part of a major urban regeneration project of the former Harland and Wolff shipbuilding yards at Belfast’s Titanic Quarter. Titanic Quarter Limited is behind the £7 billion largest waterfront development in Europe which will transform the 185 acre brownfield site into a new maritime quarter. It will include over 7,500 new apartments as well as business, leisure, tourism and education facilities. The development is expected to create at least 25,000 new jobs over the next 15 years.