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#OTD in 1851, Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in The Crystal Palace. Famous people of the time attended, including Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.
Photo: The Egyptian Court, colorized by me for The Colour of Time: tinyurl.com/y58gmwzc
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Photo: The Egyptian Court, colorized by me for The Colour of Time: tinyurl.com/y58gmwzc
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Six million people—equivalent to a third of the entire population of Britain at the time—visited the Great Exhibition. The average daily attendance was 42,831 with a peak attendance of 109,915 on 7 October.
The event made a surplus of £186,000 (£18,370,000 in 2015), which was used to found the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum.
