The Paint Lab project at the Great Exhibition Road Festival brilliantly fuses art and science, inspiring creativity by bridging disciplines. #ArtMeetsScience #GreatExhibition #InteractiveArt LINK

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The Great Exhibition in Art The Great Exhibition of 1851, the first World's Fair, is generally thought of as a giant trade fair, a showcase for empires and industry. However, it was also conceived to address a deep-rooted proble...

Bryant's 'The Great Exhibition in Art' charts the planning and reception of the #greatexhibition as well as its legacy in the founding of an institution which shared the Exhibition's mission to educate the public about art, design and taste: the V&A Museum!
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#OTD #TDIH #May1, 1851: #Premieres: The #GreatExhibition, the 1st #WorldsFair, and The #CrystalPalace, a wonder of the age built to house it, opens; on #November30, 1936, it was destroyed by fire 😭
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A colour lithograph of the 1851 Great Exhibition. A throng of people in the far left foreground. Behind them, figures gathered on a platform form the royal party. The figures of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are in the foreground. Tiered balconies behind the royal party with bunting and signs for different nations. Another group of people gathered in front of the royal party in the mid centre of the illustration. Behind are various statutes and water features trailing off into the distance. The interior space is supported by a glass and metal structure.

Funny what you can find hidden away in our stores, including in our Early & Fine Printing Collection, Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the #GreatExhibition of 1851 : from the originals painted for H.R.H. Prince Albert Ref - AE 096/1854 (1115537) #LibraryofBham

Junior School pupils and their older mentors had a wonderful time when they visited the Y6 Great Exhibition. All agreed that a significant amount of research was evident and that the projects showed insight #GreatExhibition #StudentProjects #ResearchSkills

This beautiful, delicate painted clay tobacco pipe bowl, modelled on the iconic Crystal Palace, is a souvenir from The Great Exhibition of 1861. It was found during investigations at St Edmund's Hall, Oxford. A wonderful find by our Warwick team!

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👀 Tile from #GreatExhibition 1851

An encaustic tile still with original label -
Class 27, Catalogue number 86

H. MINTON & Co.
Stoke-upon-Trent,
Staffordshire , England

On display -
“Victorian Radicals” exhibition
#Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

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Great Exhibition of 1851

#OnThisDay in 1851, the #GreatExhibition opened in the Crystal Palace in London; it was a triumph for #PrinceAlbert but helped ruin his health & led to his death; it was in the service of the #BritishEmpire & problematic but one of the high points of Victoria's reign:
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