Historical American Exposition

1892–1893 Madrid
The United States section of the main hall
Overview
BIE-class	Unrecognized exposition
Name	Historical American Exposition
Building(s)	Biblioteca Nacional de España/National Archaeological Museum of Spain
Area	5,000 square metres (0.50 ha)[1]
Organized by	Antonio Cánovas del Castillo[1]
Participant(s)
Countries	19
Location
Country	Spain
City	Madrid
Coordinates	40.423333°N 3.688889°W / 40.423333; -3.688889
Timeline
Opening	30 October 1892
Closure	31 January 1893

The 1892 Historical American Exposition held in Madrid was intended to mark the four hundredth year of the discovery of America.[2]

Participants

Several countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Sweden, Uruguay and USA participated,[3] along with the Captaincy General of Cuba and Spain herself.[3]

Costa Rica

The Costa Rica exhibit was organised by the National Museum of Costa Rica director Anastasio Alfaro and included over 1000 relics from an 1891 excavation of a cemetery at Guayabo de Turrialba. After the Madrid exhibition, much of the Costa Rican display was taken to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.[3]

Mexico

The Mexican exhibit was curated by Francisco del Paso y Troncoso and included models of the El Tajín, Xochicalco, and Teuchitlan pyramids and of the complete Cempoala site.[4]

Spain

The Spanish section had many artefacts loaned from the National Archaeological Museum of Spain including the Troano codex[5]

See also

• Exposición Nacional de Minería (1883)

References

1. Watters, David R (2008). "Miadrid 1892". In Findling, John E; Pelle, Kimberley D (eds.). Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9.
2. "Cronología. National Library of Spain". 2014-08-11. Archived from the original on 2021-12-06. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
3. Watters, D.R. & Zamora, O.F., (2005). "World's Fairs and Latin American Archaeology: Costa Rica at the 1892 Madrid Exposition". Bulletin of the History of Archaeology. 15(1), pp.4–11. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/bha.15102
4. "Paper: Modeling Prehispanic Architecture at the Exposición Histórico-Americana, Madrid, 1892 (128th Annual Meeting (January 2-5, 2014))". Retrieved 5 May 2017.
5. United States. Commission to the Madrid Exposition, 1892 (1895). "Department of Spain. National Museum of Archaeology". Report of the United States Commission to the Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid 1892-1893. Washington Government Printing Office. pp. 57–62.