ENTOS
In the summer of 1913, more than a century ago, one million visitors crossed the IJ for ENTOS. That meant one in six Dutch people at the time. Less than one third of that number crossover for a festival in Het Twiske nowadays. The mega-popular ENTOS was not a festival, but an exhibition. The First Dutch Maritime Exhibition.
Shipping in the spotlight
Around the Tolhuistuin, ENTOS erected a fortress with two forty-metre-high towers, several pavilions, exhibition areas and an actual fairground. It had the look and feel of a world expo. The goal? To put Dutch shipping and Amsterdam’s port firmly in the spotlight. Visitors could also meander across a reconstruction of the Dam Square, looking the way it had back in the 17th, 'Golden' century.
First Dutch Maritime Exhibition (ENTOS), Buiksloterweg 1. Interior of the exhibition pavilion, J.S. Meuwsen, 1913, Stadsarchief Amsterdam / Meuwsen
First Dutch Maritime Exhibition (ENTOS) at Buiksloterweg 1, 1913, Stadsarchief Amsterdam
First Dutch Maritime Exhibition (ENTOS). Part of the Lunapark, designed by Hugo Haase, 1913, Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Top image: ENTOS, Exhibition site entrance.
Badhuisweg, 1913 ca., Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Badhuisweg, 1913 ca., Stadsarchief Amsterdam
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ENTOS image archive
HACN website
Image archive about ENTOS of the Historic Center of Amsterdam-North.
To the websiteThe First Dutch Maritime Exhibition (ENTOS)
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Comprehensive history about the origin and history of the First Dutch Maritime Exhibition (ENTOS)
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