Visitors and local residents in Vienna wanting to explore how the development of the Austrian capital came about should find time to go to the Wien Museum. The so-called World Exhibition show is now going on there and will run until September 28th.
Featured in this valuable event are the progress of Vienna in the third of the 19th century. These include the new Ringstrasse, mass entertainment, new medicine and technology which have influenced and changed the lives of the Viennese in the past years.
Vienna hosted an international exhibition in 1873 in an effort to present itself as a world leader equal to France and England during the Hasburg monarchy. It was the fifth world exhibition and the first to be held outside of London and Paris.
Held in the sprawling Prater spanning 575 acres of land, Vienna’s first world exhibition was considered larger than all the previous ones. In the center of the venue was the Rotunda, the symbol of the exhibition. An industry hall measuring 800 meters was also put up for the show. For six months, the event attracted 53,000 exhibitors from 35 countries. At that time, maps and travel guides to Vienna were published to provide information to visitors.
Entitled 1873: Vienna and the World Exhibition is taking place at the Wien Museum in Karlsplatz.
