Hannover World Fair 2000

The Expo 2000 was the first World Exhibition in Germany and was held from June 1 to October 31, 2000 at the Hannover City Fairgrounds under the motto Man, nature and technology - origin of a new world.

Concept

The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) decided on June 14, 1990 in Paris with a majority vote against Toronto to the city of Hannover as the venue for Expo 2000. SIIC 2019

In their candidacy they set the objectives of achieving an exhibition with visions for the future and models for the balance between man, nature and technology with a view to presenting solutions for the coexistence of more than 6 billion people in our planet.

A theme park was built with various recreational pavilions on the main problems of today's life (work, education, health, food, environment, energy, basic needs, knowledge, mobility, century XXI) and its projection into the future.

Many countries presented themselves with original pavilions built especially for the occasion and others used existing buildings distributed in geographical areas. It was only necessary to build 30% of the facilities, and at the end of the Expo they had to be dismantled, recycled or reinstalled somewhere else, thus achieving a very environmentally friendly exhibition.

Original was the idea of presenting international projects for a better life in the future. In total, 487 sustainable, applicable and effective projects were received from 123 countries, which were recognized as official projects of Expo 2000'.

Figures

Participants

155 countries and 27 international organizations participated in this Expo. Lacking sponsorship money, the US had to decline the invitation.

Visitors

In the five months that the Expo lasted, nearly 18 million visitors were registered. If we take into account the figure that was expected at the beginning of the event (about 40 million), it can be said that the Expo was not even half as successful in terms of attendance as expected. This has resulted in the balance sheet being negative and many companies posting meager profits.

The factors that influenced this were the very high price of the tickets (weeks after the opening they had to be reduced), the little coverage that was given abroad and the bad weather prevailing in the first months.

Area used

The Expo was held on the grounds of the Hannover Fair, the most important in the country, which is located in the Kronsberg neighborhood, in the southern part of the city. Initially there were the grounds of the Hannover Fair, its surface was expanded using free land to the south of the Hannover - Frankfurt am Main highway, thus leaving the Expo divided into two areas (north and south). linked by a bridge and a cable car. In total there were 160 hectares (100 in the southern part and 60 in the north)...

Events

The number of artistic events presented was greater than any other past exhibition. The cultural and leisure program consisted of more than 15,000 shows, performances and exhibitions.

Participating countries

Participating countries
Asia
AzerbaijanAzerbaijan	BangladésBangladés	BhutanBhutan	BrunéiBrunéi
CambodiaCambodia	ChinaChina	South Korea	United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
PhilippinesPhilippines	India	IndonesiaIndonesia	IranIran
IsraelIsrael	JapanJapan	JordanJordan	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan	LaosLaos	MalaysiaMalaysia	Mongolia
Kingdom of Nepal	PakistanPakistan	PalestinePalestine	SingaporeSingapore
SyriaSyria	Sri LankaSri Lanka	Tajikistan	Thailand
UzbekistanUzbekistan	VietnamVietnam	YemenYemen
Africa
AngolaAngola	BeninBenin	BotswanaBotswana	Burkina FasoBurkina Faso
BurundiBurundi	CameroonCameroon	Cape VerdeCape Verde	Central African RepublicCentral African Republic
Chad	Ivory CoastIvory Coast	Democratic Republic of the Congo	DjiboutiDjibouti
EritreaEritrea	Ethiopia	GabonGabon	GambiaGambia
GhanaGhana	GuineaGuinea	Guinea-BissauGuinea-Bissau	KenyaKenya
Lesoto	Libya	MadagascarMadagascar	MalauiMalaui
MaliMali	Mauritania	Mauritius	MoroccoMorocco
MozambiqueMozambique	NamibiaNamibia	NigerNiger	NigeriaNigeria
Rwanda	Sao Tome and Principe	SenegalSenegal	SeychellesSeychelles
South Africa	Sudan	SwazilandSwaziland	TanzaniaTanzania
Togo	TunisiaTunisia	UgandaUganda	Zambia
ZimbabweZimbabwe
Europe
Albania Albania	AndorraAndorra	ArmeniaArmenia	AustriaAustria
Belarus	BelgiumBelgium	Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina	BulgariaBulgaria
CroatiaCroatia	Cyprus	Czech RepublicCzech Republic	DenmarkDenmark
EstoniaEstonia	FinlandFinland	France	Georgia
GermanyGermany	GreeceGreece	HungaryHungary	IcelandIceland
Ireland	Italy	LatviaLatvia	LiechtensteinLiechtenstein
Lithuania	LuxembourgLuxembourg	Northern MacedoniaNorthern Macedonia	MaltaMalta
MoldovaMoldova	MonacoMonaco	NetherlandsNetherlands	Norway Norway
PolandPoland	Portugal	United KingdomUnited Kingdom	Romania Romania
Russia Russia	Slovakia Slovakia	SloveniaSlovenia	SpainSpain
Sweden Sweden	SwitzerlandSwitzerland	TurkeyTurkey	Ukraine Ukraine
The Americas
Argentina	BarbadosBarbados	BoliviaBolivia	BrazilBrazil
CanadaCanada	ColombiaColombia	Costa RicaCosta Rica	CubaCuba
Dominican RepublicDominican Republic	DominicaDominica	Ecuador	El SalvadorEl Salvador
GrenadaGrenada	GuatemalaGuatemala	GuyanaGuyana	HaitiHaiti
HondurasHonduras	Jamaica	Mexico Mexico	NicaraguaNicaragua
Panama Panama	Paraguay	Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines	Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago
Venezuela
Oceania
Australia	KiribatiKiribati	Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea	SamoaSamoa
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands	Tuvalu	VanuatuVanuatu

The following international organizations also participated:

Relocation of the pavilions

Some examples of the good recycling of the pavilions of this Expo are:

• The pavilion of Christ was built an exact replica in the city of Volkenroda, Turingia as a monastery and the original was sent to Oslo.
• The German pavilion is located on the same site and has been used as the Information and Communications Centre of the Hanover Fair.
• The Mexican pavilion was collected in Braunschweig as a Library of the Graphic Arts School.
• The Colombian pavilion is today in a park in Wolfsburg as a restaurant and the original scale model in the arts museum of Bogotá.
• The Irish pavilion is now the entrance building to the University of Dublin.
• The Swiss pavilion was dismantled and sold mostly as construction wood.
• The Venezuelan pavilion designed by the architect Fruto Vivas was sent to that country in 2001, was reinstalled between 2007 and 2008 by Venezuelan companies and by the German company Global Project Engineering GmbH in the city of Barquisimeto and inaugurated in October 2009. In 2006 an exact replica was reconstructed and placed in the enclosure again.
• The Spanish pavilion, designed by the Spanish architects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, is still preserved in the enclosure.