[2]: 178 The exposition received 7 million visitors, covered 52 acres and made 75,117 Belgian francs.

[2]: 415 Twenty-nine countries were official participants, from Europe: Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom; from Africa: Egypt and Congo Free State; from America: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, and the United States; and from Asia China, Japan, Persia and Turkey.

Germany and Spain were unofficial participants[1] There was an exhibition of medieval and Renaissance art, L'art ancien au Pays de Liège, as part of the event.

[3] Ulrikke Greve' Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseums Vævskole contributed tapestries which won a gold prize.

[2]: 179  After closing in 2013, in May 2016 it reopened, with a contemporary glass extension, as La Boverie.