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Expo 1965 Munich

June 25 to October 3, 1965

Theme: Transport

Special exhibition · First Categorization System

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Closed October 3, 1965

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101

Days open

31

Participating countries

50 ha

Exhibition site

124 acres

2.5M

Visits

2,500,000

24,752

Visits per day

average

Key facts

 

By the numbers

Official name

“Internationale Verkehrsausstellung 65”

Category

Special exhibition
First Categorization System

Theme

Transport

Dates

June 25 to October 3, 1965
101 days

Host city

Munich, Germany

Site

Bavaria park
50 ha (124 acres)

Host elected

November 13, 1962

Participating countries

31

Visits

2,500,000

“IVA - International Transport Exhibition, Munich 1965” (Internationale Verkehrsausstellung) was held in Munich, West Germany, from June 25 to October 3, 1965. Held under the patronage of Federal President Heinrich Lübke, it was a special exhibition under the 1928 Paris Convention, devoted to the theme of transport. The International Exhibitions Bureau (Bureau International des Expositions, BIE) records 31 participants and 2.5 million visits.


The Expo occupied 50.2 hectares on the Munich exhibition grounds at the Theresienhöhe and part of the neighboring Theresienwiese, and its opening ceremony took place in the Bayernhalle. Messe München, founded the year before, regards the IVA as Munich's first world exhibition and its first step toward internationalization.


Exhibits ranged across land, air and space travel. Highlights included U.S. Air Force rockets, a model of a space station, a cable car and an elevated monorail train. Visitors included U.S. astronaut John Glenn, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Walt Disney, who came because of the monorail.


At 101 days, the IVA remains the longest single event that Messe München has ever hosted. Expo 1965 Munich placed transport at the center of public attention in the space age and helped establish Munich as an international exhibition city.

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Expo 1965 Munich, known as IVA 65, presented transport from 31 participants on the Theresienhöhe and drew 2.5 million visits.

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Bibliography

  1. International Exhibitions Bureau. "Expo 1965 Munich." BIE. https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1965-munich

  2. Messe München. "Messe München: A Stroke of Luck for the City and the Free State." Messe München. March 22, 2024. https://messe-muenchen.de/en/press/press-releases/a-stroke-of-luck-for-the-city-and-the-free-state.html

  3. Stadtarchiv München. "Internationale Verkehrsausstellung auf dem Messegelände an der Theresienhöhe sowie auf einem Teil der Theresienwiese." DE-1992-PS-C-3592. 1965. Stadtarchiv München. https://stadtarchiv.muenchen.de/scopeQuery/detail.aspx?ID=494875

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