The Royal Exhibition Building is located in Carlton Gardens, in the northeast of Melbourne's financial district. It was the first building in Australia to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 2004.
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The Royal Exhibition Building and its surrounding Carlton Gardens were designed for the great international exhibitions of 1880 and 1888 in Melbourne and later hosted the opening of the first Parliament of
Australia in 1901. Throughout the 20th century smaller sections and
wings of the building were subject to demolition and fire, however the
main building, known as the Great Hall, survived.. The building and grounds were designed by Joseph Reed.
The property is one of the last remaining 19th-century exhibition buildings in the world and most complete surviving site from the International Exhibition movement 1851–1914, which saw over 50 exhibitions staged between 1851 and 1915 in venues including Paris, New York, Vienna, Calcutta, Kingston (Jamaica) and Santiago (Chile).
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