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 for the assignment of the world exhibitions is since 1928 the office international exposition (BIE). The world exhibitions recognized by the BIE last 3 to 6 months.

[[picture: Weltaustellung.jpg|thumb|rechts|250px|Weltausstellung in Paris 1889.

The picture shows the machinery building, which was torn off 1910]] 

The first world exhibition was held on suggestion prince Albert 1851 in the Londoner Hyde park. 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. With the exhibition 1867 in Paris the space requirement could not be covered 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, since they connected the idea of technical fascination with 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 - the Atomium
• New York, 1964 - premiere of the colour television
• 1967 - atomic clock

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

The world exhibitions often stood under a topic: thus it was located in Paris under the topic: "Arts and technology in the modern life" and in Brussels applied it was called rather critically "this world the human returns".

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 on 25 September 2005 closed. The next world exhibition takes place 2008 in Saragossa, Spain.

Literature

• Winfried Kretschmer: History of the world exhibitions. Frankfurt/Main: New York, 1999
• Simply 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)

Related links

• History of the world exhibitions
• http://www.bie-paris.org/
• http://www.expomuseum.com/
• Exposition universal one de Bruxelles 1910 - old person postcards

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