In Prague, there will be a second exhibition about Expo 58

Prague - At the end of September, another exhibition will begin in Prague, which will commemorate the Czechoslovak participation in the World Expo 58 in Brussels. It is being prepared by the National Archive and will be accessible at its headquarters in Chodovec. The exhibition Brussels Dream is currently ongoing in the Municipal Library, where it has been seen by over 22,000 people since May, running until September 21. For the organizing Gallery of the Capital City of Prague, it has become one of the most visited exhibitions in recent years.
    Due to high interest, the organizers are extending visiting hours from September 13 to 10:00 to 19:00 and also adding Mondays, when the venue is usually closed. On Monday, September 8 and 15, the exhibition will be open from 10:00 to 18:00, said Silvie Marková from ČTK on behalf of the organizers. Brussels Dream maps the Czechoslovak participation at Expo 58 as well as trends in graphic design, fashion, and consumer products of the first half of the 1960s.
    The Czechoslovak pavilion became the most popular exhibition among visitors at Expo 58 and won the main award, the Golden Star. Among the most interesting and progressive exhibits was glass, which is represented at the exhibition not only by a collection of works from the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague but also by a model and study for a large stained glass window by Jan Kotík.
    The authors of the exhibition provided visitors with the maximum information in visual form. Through large-format reproductions of images from the exhibition, they sought to evoke the emotional environment of the pavilion and the masterful use of scenic means - the contrast of light, dark, and light accents on groups of exhibits - which were characteristic of the exhibition.
    The exhibition was organized by Arbor vitae societas, the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague, the Moravian Gallery in Brno, and the Gallery of the Capital City of Prague in cooperation with the National Technical Museum. After the Prague premiere, it will be repeated in Brno from November 20 to March 1.
    The National Archive also wants to commemorate Czechoslovakia's participation in the Brussels exhibition - reportedly as one of the key events of the transformative years that end in eight, which are being remembered this year. The organizers, like those of the Brussels Dream exhibition, perceive the then-world exhibition as a political act.
    "In 1958 in Brussels, the first post-war confrontation between East and West took place. It was the first industrial and cultural presentation of nations in the new geopolitical arrangement of the world with a significant propagandistic approach from both sides," the archive states. For its exhibition, which is set to last from September 27 to November 20, it plans to show films, hold discussions with participants of the world exhibition, as well as with representatives of companies and expert lectures.