'Downton Abbey': The Exhibition Comes To New York City

Downton Abbey: The Exhibition is finally here in the United States, starting with a limited engagement in New York City. With rumors of a movie still circling, Downton Abbey fever is coming back to the United States this winter. Starting with what the producers are calling "a limited engagement" in New York City, the Exhibition opened on Saturday, November 18th, 2017, and will run daily, 10am – 8pm.

Sarah Cooper, the NBC executive who worked on bringing this project to life, spoke at the High Tea at New York City's Plaza Hotel ahead of the opening. For her, it was a rewarding experience it was to take this television show and turn it into an interactive museum piece.

"It's interesting. You take something as successful as the show, you sort of put it all back in the bottle. You shake it up and then you... you know, pour it back out in a completely different medium. Making it feel like a story and like it has a beginning and middle and end and imagining it in a completely different way is such a conjuring trick. And we were very keen to use modern technology... cutting edge technology to make it happen."

Visiting the Exhibition is something else quite entirely. One part museum installation, one part interactive experience with CGI (14 video sequences were filmed for the exhibition specifically), and sometimes feeling a little like a walking theme park ride through the estate, this very modern way to experience the world of Downton is definitely worth the trip.