Quick List Info
Dates Open - April 17 to October 19, 1958.
Attendance - 41,454,412, 185 days.
International Participants - 45 nations, 2 colonies, 8 international organizations. Some reports state 43 or 44 nations.
Total Cost - 2,530,500,000 FB ($43.4 million), Expo Authority.
Site Acreage - 200 hectares (494 acres). The exhibition occupied the 1935 World's Fair site on Heysel Plateau, but was fifty percent larger with the addition of Royal Park of Laeken.
Sanction and Type - Bureau of International
Exhibitions Universal Category Exposition. Registered November 5, 1933 with theme "Bilan d'un monde pour un monde plus humain" or Evaluation of Mankind for a More Human World.
Ticket Cost - 30 Bfr , $0.60 adult, $0.40 children.
Photo top center: Image of Expo '58 with the Atomium in the background. Courtesy Pinterest, Unknown primary source. Column Top: Official poster of the Brussels 1958, 1958. Original printed by Andre Bayeart. Reproduced in calendar by Larry Zim, 1987.

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