Portuguese colonial exhibition

Overview
BIE-class	Unrecognized exposition
Building	Palácio de Cristal
Visitors	1.5 million
Organized by	Henrique Galvão
Location
Country	Portugal
City	Porto
Coordinates	41°08′48.76″N 8°37′33.56″W
Timeline
Opening	16 June 1934
Closure	30 September 1934

The Portuguese colonial exhibition was a world's fair[1] held in Porto, Portugal in 1934 to display achievements of Portugal's colonies in Africa and Asia.[2]

Portugal's director of 'Colonial Show Fairs' Henrique Galvão who had represented Portugal at the Paris Colonial Exposition in 1931 was made the technical director for this exhibition.[2]

It was decided to re-use the Palácio de Cristal which had been constructed for an earlier exhibition in Porto.[3]

Exhibits came from Portugal itself (Braga, Chaves, Leixões, Matosinhos and Porto), Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea (Guinea-Bissau), India, Macao[4] (including a reproduction of the Guia lighthouse),[3] Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor (Portuguese Timor).[4]

There were reproductions of villages from different colonies[2] and of the Padrãos of Dighton and Yellala,[3] along with a zoo, restaurants[2] a theatre, a cinema which showed 'The Dawn Patrol and an amusement park.[3]

It ran from 16[5] June to 30 September[6]and by the time it had closed there had been 1.5 million visitors.[7]

References

Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberley D. (eds.). "Appendix D: Fairs Not Included". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9.
"Efemérides | I Exposição Colonial Portuguesa, 1934" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 November 2017.
"do Porto e não só...: O Porto dos anos 30–A Exposição Colonial 1934" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 November 2017.
Álbum-catálogo oficial da Exposição.
"Portugal > History and Events > Date Table > Second Republic". Retrieved 2 November 2017.
"Efemérides | I Exposição Colonial Portuguesa, 1934" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 November 2017.
Medeiros, Antonio. "Imperialist Ideology and Representations of the Portuguese Proivinces during the early Estado Novo". Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts.

External links

'Portugal is Not a Small Country' map used to show how big Portuguese colonies were

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[FinPelp427-1] Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberley D. (eds.). "Appendix D: Fairs Not Included". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9.

[ref01-2] "Efemérides | I Exposição Colonial Portuguesa, 1934" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 November 2017.

[ref57-3] "do Porto e não só...: O Porto dos anos 30–A Exposição Colonial 1934" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 November 2017.

[ref10-4] Álbum-catálogo oficial da Exposição.

[refx03-5] "Portugal > History and Events > Date Table > Second Republic". Retrieved 2 November 2017.

[ref02-6] "Efemérides | I Exposição Colonial Portuguesa, 1934" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 November 2017.

[ref03-7] Medeiros, Antonio. "Imperialist Ideology and Representations of the Portuguese Proivinces during the early Estado Novo". Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts.