Vienna World Exposition
| EXPO Vienna 1873 | |
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The Rotunde, centre of the exhibition
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| Overview | |
| BIE-class | Universal exposition |
| Category | Historical |
| Name | Weltausstellung |
| Motto | Kultur und Erziehung (English: Culture and Education) |
| Building | Rotunde |
| Area | 233 Ha |
| Visitors | 7,255,000 |
| Location | |
| Country | Austria-Hungary |
| City | Vienna |
| Venue | Prater |
| Coordinates | 48°12′58″N 16°23′44″E / 48.21611°N 16.39556°E |
| Timeline | |
| Opening | May 1, 1873 |
| Closure | October 31, 1873 |
| Universal expositions | |
| Previous | Exposition Universelle (1867) in Paris |
| Next | Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia |
Weltausstellung 1873 Wien (English: World Exposition 1873 Vienna) was the large world exposition that was held in 1873 in the Austria-Hungarian capital of Vienna. Its motto was Kultur und Erziehung (English: Culture and Education).
There were almost 26,000 exhibitors housed in different buildings that were erected for this exposition, including the Rotunde (English: Rotunda), a large circular building in the great park of Prater designed by the Scottish engineer John Scott Russell. The Rotunde was destroyed by fire on September 17, 1937.
The Russian pavilion had a naval section designed by Viktor Hartmann. Exhibits included models of the Port of Rijeka and the Illés Relief model of Jerusalem.
Osman Hamdi Bey, an archaeologist and painter, was chosen by the Ottoman government as commissary of the empire's exhibits in Vienna. He organized the Ottoman pavilion with Victor Marie de Launay, a French-born Ottoman official and archivist, who had written the catalogue for the Ottoman Empire's exhibition at the 1867 Paris World's Fair. The Ottoman pavilion, located near the Egyptian pavilion (which had its own pavilion despite being a territory of the Ottoman Empire), in the park outside the Rotunde, included small replicas of notable Ottoman buildings and models of vernacular architecture: a replica of the Sultan Ahmed Fountain in the Topkapı Palace, a model Istanbul residence, a representative Turkish bath, a cafe, and a bazaar. The 1873 Ottoman pavilion was more prominent than its pavilion in 1867. The Vienna exhibition set off Western nations' pavilions against Eastern pavilions, with the host, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, setting itself at the juncture between East and West. A report by the Ottoman commission for the exhibition expressed a goal of inspiring with their display "a serious interest [in the Ottoman Empire] on the part of the industrialists, traders, artists, and scholars of other nations...."
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