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Expo 1955 Turin
May 25 to June 19, 1955
Theme: Sport
Special exhibition · First Categorization System
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Closed June 19, 1955
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71 years ago
26
Days open
11
Participating countries
120,000
Visits
120,000
4,615
Visits per day
average
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Official name
“International Expo of Sport Turin 1955”
Category
Special exhibition
First Categorization System
Theme
Sport
Dates
May 25 to June 19, 1955
26 days
Host city
Turin, Italy
Participating countries
11
Visits
120,000
The “International Expo of Sport Turin 1955” was held in Turin, Italy, from May 25 to June 19, 1955. A special exhibition under the 1928 Convention, it was organized by a special organizing committee for the International Sports Exhibition. Its theme was sport, and it welcomed 11 participants and 120,000 visits over less than four weeks.
Turin's municipal magazine described the event, conceived by a committee in the city, as an original undertaking with no precedent of its kind. National Olympic committees from 10 countries took part, and the Italian minister for sport and tourism attended the opening on May 25.
The exhibition filled three halls. The entrance hall held a Sports Gallery of historic objects, among them the Itala automobile from the Peking to Paris race and a tent used on the expedition to K2, and the Salone Agnelli housed some 250 stands set up by ministries, provinces and municipalities. Other displays included sailing models prepared for the upcoming Olympic Games in Melbourne, the yacht Merope associated with the sailors Straulino and Rode, a Fairchild light aircraft and racing cars old and new. Expo 1955 Turin presented sport, from mountaineering to motor racing, as a subject worthy of an international exhibition.
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Expo 1955 Turin, a special exhibition devoted to sport, brought 11 countries together for less than four weeks and drew 120,000 visits.
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Bibliography
International Exhibitions Bureau. "1955 Turin." BIE. https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1955-turin
Città di Torino. Torino: Rivista mensile municipale. 1955. Digitized by MuseoTorino. https://museotorino.it/resources/pdf/books/546/files/assets/common/downloads/page0536.pdf











