Jul 9, 14:13 Filed under prague-tips At this moment, there is an
interesting exhibition in one branch of the Prague City Gallery
– in the Municipal library. The exhibition is called Brusel
Dream and shows how Czechoslovakia presented itself on the world
exhibition Expo 58 in Brusel in Belgium. It was fifty years ago,
so now comes an ideal time to remember this event, which was
(not only) for Czechoslovak culture pretty important. Expo 1958
was the first world exhibition after almost 20 years. The last
previous one was in 1939 in New York. Then came the World War
II. which devastated many countries so much, that they had many
other, more important things to do, then to prepare events like
this. So when finally the world exhibition Expo 58 in Brusel was
annonced, it was expected impationelly and with excitement. The
world was finally recovering of war damages… People were the
most curious about the presentation of the U.S.S.R. and the
U.S.A., two main enemies in the cold war. The Expo 58 was to be
something lik