Medal from the General National Exhibition in Lviv 1894
Obverse: exhibition pavilion, at the top the inscription POWSZECHNA Wystawa Krajowa, at the bottom Lviv 1894
Reverse: figures of peasants in folk costumes with a torch in their hands, tools around them, all surrounded by a wreath
Silver-plated brass, diameter 33 mm, weight 12.43 g
On June 5, 1894, the General National Exhibition in Lviv was officially opened, open for four and a half months. At that time, it was visited by 1,150,000 people, which was ten times more than the number of the city's inhabitants at that time. Preparations for the exhibition lasted two years, during which over a hundred objects were designed and built, including 129 pavilions, divided into 34 main sections. The entire exhibition area covered 50 hectares, the development of which cost approximately PLN 600,000. In connection with the exhibition, the first cable railway in Poland and the first electric tram in this part of Europe were launched. The exhibition became a review of the achievements and achievements of the economy, industry, culture and art of Galicia, as well as a presentation of the national art and culture of all Polish lands under partition, and its main element was the monumental Panorama of Racławice, ordered a year earlier from Jan Styka.
