Knowledge Societies Exhibition
Building a
Better World
The belief in new technologies inspired architects to dream of new cities and a better world.
Myth of
the national engineer
European governments liked to portray engineers as national heroes – but were they?
Knowing
Everything
From index cards to the internet, read about plans to collect and communicate all the knowledge in the world
ELDO, the
Space Flop
After Sputnik woke up the world to space, Western European countries joined the space race together - with less than high-flying results.
Inspired By
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The Tours in the Knowledge Societies Exhibition were largely inspired by volume 2 of the Making Europe book series:
Building Europe on Expertise: Innovators, Organizers, Networkers