Brussels International (1897)

Exhibition poster by Henri Privat-Livemont

The World Exposition 1897 in Brussels (fr: Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles) was the twelfth of the Bureau International des Expositions ( BIE) recognized World's Fair. It took place between May 10 in 1897 and 8 November 1897. 27 countries and 10,668 exhibitors took part. The exhibition was 7.8 million visitors.

History

The Great Exhibition was held in the Cinquantenaire (fr: Parc du Cinquantenaire ) on an area of ​​36 acres instead. King Leopold II took the opportunity at the World Exhibition in Tervuren on an area of ​​96 hectares in addition a colonial exhibition on the Congo Free State to perform. The Congo Free State was then personal property of the king.

The two exhibition grounds were connected together with a newly built tram line, today's tram line 44, and with the also newly created for the exhibition " Avenue de Tervueren ". The exhibition in Brussels was the first world's fair with its own scientific topics show ( fr: Section of Sciences ), which was devoted to mathematics, physics and the natural sciences.

For the Colonial Exhibition a colony palace was built in the Art Nouveau style. In it the main import products (eg coffee, cocoa and tobacco ) from the Congo, ethnographic objects and stuffed exotic animals were presented. In the park in Tervuren a Congolese village was set up in which during the exhibition 267 Africans lived. In addition, specific and peculiar freshwater fish from the Congo were shown in an underground passageway.

This exhibition was a huge success: In five months the exhibition in Brussels reported 6 million and the Colonial Exhibition in Tervuren 1.8 million visitors. The exhibition generated a profit of 1.3 million Belgian francs ( 260,000 U.S. dollars). The colony palace continued to be used after the exhibition as a Royal Museum for Central Africa.

Gallery

Sculpture of Charles Samuel for the Colonial Exhibition in 1897: Vuakusu Batetela défendant une femme contre un Arabe

Sculpture by Julien Dillens for the Colonial Exhibition in 1897: Les porteurs

Today's Royal Museum for Central Africa

Avenue de Tervueren

Stamp of the World Exhibition of 1897

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