Expo 1958 (Brussels World's Fair)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Expo_1958_(Brussels_World's_Fair)
GPTKB entity
Statements (32)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:World's_Fair
gptkbp:annualVisitors over 41 million
gptkbp:area 200 hectares
gptkbp:BIERecognized true
gptkbp:commemorativeCoinIssued yes
gptkbp:commemorativeStampIssued yes
gptkbp:country gptkb:Belgium
gptkbp:endDate 1958-10-19
gptkbp:followedBy Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair, 1962)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Expo 1958 (Brussels World's Fair)
gptkbp:legacy Atomium remains a landmark in Brussels
gptkbp:location gptkb:Brussels
gptkbp:logo stylized atom
gptkbp:notableBuilding Atomium
gptkbp:notableEvent First major World's Fair after World War II
Controversy over the Congo Pavilion
gptkbp:notableExhibit gptkb:Sputnik_1
Poème électronique by Le Corbusier and Edgard Varèse
Expo 58 Model Village
gptkbp:notablePavilion gptkb:United_States_Pavilion
gptkb:Philips_Pavilion
gptkb:USSR_Pavilion
gptkb:Congo_Pavilion
gptkbp:officialName gptkb:Exposition_Universelle_et_Internationale_de_Bruxelles
gptkbp:officialWebsite https://www.atomium.be/
gptkbp:organizer gptkb:Belgian_government
gptkbp:precededBy Exposition internationale du bicentenaire de Port-au-Prince (1949)
gptkbp:startDate 1958-04-17
gptkbp:theme gptkb:A_World_View_–_A_New_Humanism
gptkbp:troopContributingCountries 46
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Expo_1962_(Seattle_World's_Fair)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7