Attendance Figures
There were over ten million paid admissions to the six main exhibitions over a period of five months: The most popular event was the South Bank Exhibition with almost 8.5 million visitors, over half of them from outside London. The Festival Pleasure Gardens had over 8 million visitors, three-quarters of them from London. The Festival Ship Campania, which docked in ten cities, was visited by almost 900,000 people. The Travelling Land Exhibition, which went to four English cities, attracted under half a million. The most specialised events, in terms of attracting few visitors, were the architecture exhibition in Poplar, with 87,000 visitors and the exhibition of books in South Kensington, with 63,000.
| Architecture Exhibition, Lansbury, Poplar (London) | 86,646 |
| Industrial Power Exhibition, Glasgow | 282,039 |
| Science Exhibition, South Kensington (London) | 213,744 |
| South Bank Exhibition, Waterloo (London) | 8,455,863 |
| – Visitors from London | 36.5% |
| – Outside London | 56% |
| - Overseas | 7.5% |
| - USA | 15% |
| – Commonwealth | 32% |
| - Europe | 46% |
| – Elsewhere | 7% |
| Land Travelling Exhibition | 462,289 |
| - Manchester | 114,183 |
| – Leeds | 144,844 |
| – Birmingham | 76,357 |
| – Nottingham | 106,615 |
| Festival Ship "Campania" | 889,792 |
| – Southampton | 78,683 |
| – Dundee | 51,422 |
| – Newcastle | 169,511 |
| – Hull | 87,840 |
| – Plymouth | 50,120 |
| – Bristol (Avonmouth) | 78,219 |
| – Cardiff | 104,391 |
| – Belfast | 86,756 |
| – Birkenhead | 90,311 |
| – Glasgow | 93,539 |
| Festival Pleasure Gardens, Battersea (London) | 8,031,000 |
| – Visitors from London | 76%, |
| – Outside London | 22% |
| – Overseas | 2% |
| Ulster Farm & Factory Exhibition, Belfast | 156,760 |
| Living Traditions Exhibition, Edinburgh | 135,000 |
| Exhibition of Books, South Kensington (London) | 63,162 |
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