Stockholm Exhibition 1866
The Stockholm Exhibition 1866 ( Swedish Stockholmsutställningen 1866 ) was the first international art and industrial exhibition in Sweden. Around 3800 exhibitors from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway took part. The exhibition venues were the temporary industrial hall in what is now Kungsträdgården and the National Museum on Blasieholmen .
The Danish defeat in 1864 meant the end of Scandinavianism as a political and military vision of cooperation - instead, economic and cultural cooperation was the focus. The Stockholm Exhibition of 1866 was the first of a series of large-scale exhibitions here, including the Copenhagen Exhibitions of 1872 and 1888 and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897 .
The exhibition was opened on June 15, 1866 by Crown Prince Oscar, later King Oscar II . The exhibition building in Kungsträdgården was a wooden structure with an octagonal glass dome based on the model of London's Crystal Palace . The architect was Adolf W. Edelsvärd , who shortly afterwards built Stockholm's central train station.
The exhibition did not bring the desired success. The expenses of 400,000 Riksdaler were receipts over 135,000 Riksdaler. Of the expected 500,000 visitors from abroad, only around 50,000 came.
Other major exhibitions in Sweden
- Stockholm Exhibition 1897
- Stockholm Arts and Crafts Exhibition 1909
- Baltic Exhibition , Malmö 1914
- Stockholm Exhibition 1930 , Stockholmsutställningen 1930
- Helsingborg Exhibition 1955 , H55
- H99, Helsingborg exhibition 1999
Web links
- Overview of the four Stockholm exhibitions from 1866, 1897, 1909, 1930 (Swedish)
- Lorentz Dietrichson : Den skandinaviska konstexpositionen i Stockholm 1866 (1866), literaturanmälan by Carl Rupert Nyblom in Svensk literatur-tidskrift , 1866, pp. 308-313.
- Carl Rupert Nyblom: Den svenska konsten på den skandinaviska utställningen i Stockholm 1866 . In: Svensk literatur-tidskrift , 1866, pp. 321–347.