The Biel site after the exhibition ended.
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Bell-ringers from central Switzerland stage a friendly invasion in Yverdon.
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...and one year later.
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Jean Nouvel's rusty cube on Lake Murten.
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A few months later, only the foundations remain.
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Visitors in the "Garden of violence" in Murten.
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A year later, nothing is left.
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The platforms and towers of Biel's exhibition site.
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Shortly afterwards, all that remains is a platform jutting into the lake.
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Visitors outside the wooden structure of the "Palais de l'Equilibre" (Palace of Equilibrium) in Neuchâtel.
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... the building has left the site.
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The one-bedroom Everland Hotel in Yverdon.
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The lakeshore was restored to its original condition.
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Visitors outside the "Oui" (Yes) pavillon in Yverdon.
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The shoreline after the site was dismantled.
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Canton Jura's red mobile site in Biel.
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Any traces of the mobile site are gone a year later.
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Visitors queue in front of the "Empire of Silence" in Biel.
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A gravel space is all that remains.
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Visitors peer at the "Histoires de voir" exhibit portraying the city of Neuchâtel's history.
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Cars have replaced history.
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Expo.02 was Switzerland's sixth national exhibition. Held from May 15 to October 20, 2002, there were 39 exhibits and more than 13,500 events.
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The exhibition was held on four different sites in Biel, Neuchâtel, Murten and Yverdon, plus a mobile waterborne site for canton Jura. All the infrastructure was temporary and taken down after Expo.02 ended.
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