World exhibition

the world exhibition, also exposition universal one international one, designated exposition Mondiale (Expo) or World's fair, is an international exhibition, which could be established in the time of the industrialization as technical and industrial fair art-relating to crafts. The official institution toAssignment of the world exhibitions is since 1928 the office international exposition (BIE). The world exhibitions recognized by the BIE last 3 to 6 months.

World exhibition in Paris 1889. The picture shows the machinery building, the 1910 was torn off

the first world exhibition became on suggestion Prince Albert 1851 in the Londoner Hyde park held. There Joseph Paxton established the Crystal Palace, a palace from iron and glass particularly for the meeting. The first exhibitions combined the world under the large roof of only one building. With1867 in Paris the space requirement could not be covered for the exhibition however any longer, whereby one saw oneself forced to establish further landown pavilions. The concept of the land pavilions kept until today.

The world exhibitions became a large success, there itthe idea of technical fascination with Amüsement connected. Often experience parks, were furnished looking architectures and people looking which gave the character of large fairs to the world exhibitions.

On world exhibitions world novelties shown and still well-known buildings are:

• London, 1851 - the crystal palace
• London, 1862 - Sewing machine
• Paris, 1867 - ice cream soda
• Vienna, 1873 - rotunda (1937 burned down)
• Philadelphia, 1876 - telephone
• Paris, 1878 - refrigerator and forerunner of the record player
• Paris, 1889 - the Eiffelturm
• Chicago, 1893 - Zipper
• Paris, 1900 - Krimsekt, forerunner of the escalator
• Milan, 1906 - the pavilion Marina
• San Francisco, 1915 - the Tower OF Jewels
• Philadelphia, 1926 - Wackelpudding, Tonfilm and electrical typewriter
• Barcelona, 1929 -German pavilion
• Brussels, 1958 - which Atomium
• New York, 1964 - premiere colour television
• of the Montréal, 1967 - atomic clock

the Biennale in Venice and documenta in the hessian Kassel took up likewise the idea of the world exhibitions, they concentrateitself thereby however mostly on the forming arts.

The world exhibitions often stood under a topic: thus it was located in Paris under the topic: “It was called arts and technology in the modern life” and in Brussels applied rather critically “this world thatHuman ones return ".

The last world exhibition in Germany was the Expo 2000 in Hanover.

The Expo took place last 2005 in Japan, to 25. March 2005 was opened and their gates to 25. September 2005 closed. The next world exhibition2008 in Saragossa, Spain take place .

list of the world exhibitions

from the BIE recognized and/or. aligned Weltaustellungen is characterized by the reference BIE.

literature

• Winfried Kretschmer: History of the world exhibitions. Frankfurt/Main: New York, 1999
• simple gigantically : 150 years fascination world exhibition 1851 - 2000. Stuttgart, 1998 (at that time: Specially; 1998, No. 3)
• Eric Mattie: World exhibitions. Stuttgart: Zurich, 1998

See also

• fair (economics)

Web on the left of

• http://www.bie-paris.org/
• http://www.expomuseum.com/