In just two weeks, the Museum of Idaho unveils its latest and very exciting exhibit.

In 1912 the world's largest ship, the Titanic, sank after colliding with an iceberg. Now, 96 years later, you can get up close and personal with the story from the iconic ship to the fate of its passengers.

Staff at the Museum of Idaho are putting in long days getting this exhibit ready for tens of thousands of visitors who will come here to learn all about the Titanic. But they are sending out a call for volunteers to help them manage the crowds during the six months it's on display.

Workers are busy putting up the room dividers, and sorting through the exhibit crates for pieces to the exhibit. Next week, the more than 120 authentic artifacts will arrive.

Over the past 15 years, more than 22 million people have seen this powerful exhibition from Chicago to Los Angeles and Paris to London and for the first time, this historic show is coming to Idaho and it's expected to be a huge hit.

Sally Glass is the volunteer coordinator. She says the museum needs help from the community in the form of volunteers, dozens of helpers each day, to act as docents who share historical facts to visitors, she needs people to work as security to guard the artifacts, and others to work as cashiers, taking tickets and running the gift shop.

Sally Glass: "Yeah we're expecting minimum of 60 thousand people coming through the doors in the 6 month period. The reason for having to have so many volunteers, 275, we hope a week is to make sure that everyone has a wonderful time, a wonderful experience and gets the most out of this exhibit."

Sally says volunteers will have a special experience helping people understand the details of the sinking of the Titanic that took more than 1500 lives. It's a tragedy that continues to draw interest around the world and locally.

Sally Glass: "It's going to take a lot of help and we're tripling our normal volunteer scheduling per shift and if they can do a couple of hours every other week maybe if they only want to do a couple of months that's wonderful we'd love to have people on board and we can work round with their schedule because obviously everyone's busy."

The museum will have training sessions for the volunteers just before the exhibit opens on March 5th.

Call Sally Glass at 522-1400 ext. 3009 for volunteering information.  For more on the exhibit, go to http://www.museumofidaho.org.