
Past Expo
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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61 years ago
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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Where it happened
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Bibliography
International Exhibitions Bureau. "Expo 1965 Munich." BIE. https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1965-munich
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
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











