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The Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair is a public Surrealist funhouse he designed

The 1939 World’s Fair Dream of Venus is the dated public pavilion. Salvador Dalí’s documented role is: He designed the pavilion’s Surrealist interior. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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The 1939 World’s Fair Dream of Venus is the dated public pavilion. Salvador Dalí’s documented role is: He designed the pavilion’s Surrealist interior. Fair management and backers share the commercial shell. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Salvador Dalí's documented role is: He designed the pavilion’s Surrealist interior.

Context

Flushing Meadows fair. Sponsors quarrelled with him over a Botticelli-bodice detail as later told. Named others on the file: Fair concessionaires; unnamed performers inside the tank as later described. The public setting is the file around 1939-06-01. The instrument stays The Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair is a public Surrealist funhouse he designed. The setting of The Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair is a public Surrealist funhouse he designed is the public file around 1939-06-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of The Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair is a public Surrealist funhouse he designed are separate paths.

Why it matters

Fairground teaching spectacle. Welfare reading improving. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Salvador Dalí

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He designed the pavilion’s Surrealist interior. Fair management and backers share the commercial shell.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.MoMA — Salvador Dalí artist pageMuseum of Modern Art · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí — timelineFundació Gala-Salvador Dalí · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Fundació chronology and MoMA’s artist file independently keep the 1939 Fair pavilion in the public Dalí list. Official: Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí — timeline (https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/dali/dali-timeline/ (opens in a new tab); Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí). Independent: MoMA — Salvador Dalí artist page (https://www.moma.org/collection/artists/1364 (opens in a new tab); Museum of Modern Art). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí — timeline (https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/dali/dali-timeline/ (opens in a new tab); Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí). Independent carrier: MoMA — Salvador Dalí artist page (https://www.moma.org/collection/artists/1364 (opens in a new tab); Museum of Modern Art).

Concession, not a museum gift. Established: a sourced public record of The Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair is a public Surrealist funhouse he designed under 1939-06-01.

Shared responsibility is part of The Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair is a public Surrealist funhouse he designed. Naming Salvador Dalí does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1939-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorSalvador Dalí
  2. contributed toFactThe Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair is a public Surrealist funhouse he designed
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair is a public Surrealist funhouse he designed. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-dream-venus-1939

https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-dream-venus-1939

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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