Opening on March 21 and running until February next year, Design and Desire: The Great Exhibition of 1851 will use objects and images to tell the story of one of the most influential events of the 19th century, laying the foundations for a century of invention and modernity.
Held in the revolutionary glass and iron 'Crystal Palace' in London’s Hyde Park, the Great Exhibition of 1851 was the first international show of manufactured products. After its closure, many of the exhibited objects were used as the first collection for the South Kensington Museum which opened in 1857, and later became the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Rather than focus solely on the 100,000+ objects from the British Empire and around the world, this display will also consider 1851 exhibition’s impact on the popular imagination of the time. It will explore the reaction to the event in popular periodicals, prints and caricatures, its social and economic impact, and the ways in which the event was commercialized in the form of souvenirs.
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