[3] The building, the Glaspalast, followed the architecture of The Crystal Palace three years earlier in London.

[1] By August the epidemic hit Munich, 3,000 people eventually died of cholera and some contracting it at the exhibition including a woman from Thaining visiting Munich to see the exhibit.

[1] The medals showed Maximilian II on the obverse and the Glaspalast on reverse.

They were designed by Carl Friedrich Voigt [da; de; fr].

[5] The Glaspalast had been intended to be used as a botanic garden, but was used for exhibitions which helped establish Munich's reputation,[6] until it burned in 1931.