Niagara Falls, Ont. -- A new museum planned for Niagara Falls aims to recreate the experience of being a passenger on the Titanic.

That includes the experience of the ship's sinking, according to The Canadian Press.

The building itself will be constructed in the shape of Titanic. Exhibits will replicate rooms on the ship and visitors will be able to go through a simulation of what it was like when the vessel hit the iceberg.

Titanic sank in 1912.

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The museum will also try to educate visitors on Canadian connections to the ship, the Press said. There were about 130 Canadians aboard the vessel and many had ties to southern Ontario.

Guests to the museum will be given a boarding pass with the name and details of a real passenger and will learn facts about that person as they travel through the exhibit.

The primary focus will be on recreating life on board.

"We're going to put you on the ship," said David Van Velzen, who is spearheading the project, according to the Press. "You will go through a boiler room, an engine room, a third-class cabin, a first-class cabin. We'll put you on the deck of the ship just as it hits the iceberg."

The exhibit will use sound and other multisensory effects to simulate the moment of the crash, according to the Press.

Museum backers hope to finalize purchase of land for the facility by April and open it in spring 2018.

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