Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938

The Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938 ( often called the British Empire Exhibition, Glasgow ) was an international exhibition that was held from May to December 1938 at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow. It marked the 50th anniversary of the first great International Exhibition (Glasgow 1888) in Kelvingrove Park. Despite the rainy summer there have been 12 million visitors. The largest buildings in the exhibition were the palace of the art and the Palace of Industry, Landmark was after the chief planner of the exhibition Thomas S. Tait named Tait Tower, a 140 m high observation tower (official name: Tower of Empire ). The tower should be left to themselves in the long run, but he was already in July 1939, probably removed from military considerations again. There were also numerous national pavilions of the British Empire. The preserved the Palace of Arts. On the occasion of the exhibition, a football tournament was held.