Antwerp International Exposition (1885)
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"The proximity of the Schelde and the cool breeze which sets in with flood-tide make this park a charming promenade for summer-evenings. An avenue leads from the entrance to the N. portion of the International Exhibition of 1885, which has been left standing, and in which the band plays in bad weather. The Tonkin House, built by the French government for the accommodation of the productions of the French colonies during the exhibition, now contains the Musée Commercial, Industriel, et Ethnographique. The building is noteworthy but the collections are of little interest. In the neighbourhood is a genuine Dutch tavern, with the announcement ‘Hier tapt man Winterbier van Oppuirs'. The park is skirted by the Rue Kroonenburg, at the W. end of which, near the Schelde, once stood the castle of Kroonenburg, which marked the N.W. limit of the German empire."--Belgium and Holland: Handbook for Travellers (1891) by Baedeker |
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The Exposition Internationale d'Anvers, also known as Wereldtentoonstelling van Antwerpen, was a World's Fair held in Antwerp, Belgium, between May 2 and November 2 in 1885.
There were 25 official participating nations including: Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Kingdom of Romania, the USA and some South American states. Australian woolgrowers sent exhibitions and won prizes.
Taking place 20 years after the accession of Leopold II of Belgium, and the same year of the creation of the Congo Free State the fair was the first in which a Congolese village was displayed, a feature that also appeared in the later 1897 Brussels fair.
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