Princess Diana exhibit opens
The 12,000-square-foot "Diana: A Celebration" exhibit, which showcases the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, has opened at Union Station in Kansas City.
The exhibit allows visitors to not only relive the life of Diana as a princess, but as a private person as well.
"Out of the 20th century figures, when you think about who was famous, she's there," said Union Station employee Tony Cook. "And then all the work she did. She's just a larger than life person. To have an exhibition of her, it's wonderful."
The exhibit includes the wedding dress from the day Diana married Prince Charles.
"There's a love for her in America that seems to be ever unfolding," said Nick Grossmark, art handler from the Anthrop Estate. The Anthrope Estate is Princess Diana's ancestral home in England, and oversees the traveling exhibit.
In addition to the wedding dress, the exhibit features toys Diana played with as a child, personal family photos, diamond-encrusted tiaras, and the outfits she wore while performing royal duties.
"Suddenly she's Diana the person and not a magazine cover or someone we saw on TV all the time," Cook said.
"It's really nice, a nice tribute," said Diane Smith, who visited the exhibit Thursday night. "It's sad, too. I feel a little sad in the last room here."
Union Station officials expect 75,000 people to visit the exhibit between now and June. When the exhibit closes in June, it will be taken back to the Althrop Estate in England in time for Princess Diana's birthday.
