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-	[[Image:The Crystal Palace.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A huge [[iron]] and [[glass]] building, [[The Crystal Palace]] was one of the [[wonder]]s of, if not the [[world]], [[United Kingdom|Britain]]. A rebuilt and expanded version of the building that originally housed the [[Great Exhibition]] of [[1851]], it stood in [[Sydenham]] from [[1854]] until [[1936]], and attracted many thousands of visitors from all levels of society. The name "Crystal Palace" was coined by the satirical magazine [[Punch magazine|Punch]]. Today, it symbolizes [[modern architecture]], the rise of [[consumer culture]] and the start of [[industrial design]].]]	+	#REDIRECT [[Great Exhibition]]
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-	The '''Great Exhibition''', also known as the '''Crystal Palace Exhibition''', was an international exhibition held in [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]], [[London]], from [[May 1]] to [[October 15]] [[1851]] and the first in a series of [[World's Fair]] exhibitions of [[culture]] and [[industry]] that were to be a popular [[19th century]] feature.	+
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-	A special building, nicknamed [[The Crystal Palace]], was designed by [[Joseph Paxton]] to house the show; an [[architecture|architecturally]] adventurous building based on Paxton's experience designing [[greenhouse]]s, constructed from [[cast iron]]-frame components and [[glass]], which was an enormous success. The massive glass house was 563 meters long by 138 meters wide, and went from plans to grand opening in just nine months. The building was later moved and re-erected in an enlarged form at [[Sydenham]] in south London, an area that was renamed [[Crystal Palace, London|Crystal Palace]].	+
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-	Six million people – equivalent to a third of the entire population of Great Britain – visited the Exhibition. The Great Exhibition made a surplus of £186,000 which was used to found the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], the Science Museum and the [[Natural History Museum]] which were all built in the area to the south of the exhibition, nicknamed "Albertopolis", alongside the Imperial Institute.	+
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-	The exhibition caused [[controversy]] at the time. Some conservatives feared that the [[mass]] of visitors might become a revolutionary [[mob]], while [[radical]]s such as [[Karl Marx]] saw the exhibition as an [[emblem]] of the [[capitalist]] [[fetishism]] of [[commodities]]. Today the Great Exhibition has become a [[symbol]] of the [[Victorian Age]], and its thick catalogue illustrated with steel engravings is a primary source for High Victorian design.	+
-	== See also ==	+
-	* [[List of world's fairs]]	+
-	* [[Festival of Britain]]	+
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