The 1851 exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, held in the glass Crystal Palace in Hyde Park and visited by some six million people. It put machine production on triumphant display, provoked the design reformers who would become the Arts and Crafts movement, and its profits founded the South Kensington museums. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Milestone Year When1 May to 15 October 1851 1 LocationCrystal Palace, Hyde Park, London 1 Connections
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The movement developed in reaction against the machine-made design the 1851 exhibition celebrated
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The Great Exhibition and the Arts and Crafts Movement both already existed on this atlas with no edge between them.
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The exhibition's profits founded the South Kensington museums, the V and A among them
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The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition
Background section
The Great Exhibition was organised by Prince Albert, Henry Cole, Francis Henry, George Wallis, Wentworth Dilke, and other members of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce as a celebration of modern industrial technology and design.
Admission fees section
Two thousand five hundred tickets were printed for the opening day, all of which were bought.
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The spark for the Arts & Crafts movement was the Great Exhibition of 1851, where the chief criticism of manufactured objects on display was the riot of unnecessary ornament with little concern for utility.
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