International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates The International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry in Liverpool, England, was opened by Queen Victoria<ref name="anecd">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> on 11 May 1886.

The fair was held in Antwerp's exhibition hall which was transported for the exhibition and erected alongside Wavertree Botanic Gardens.<ref name="anecd" /> Additional attractions were the chance to visit the Template:SS,<ref name="anecd" /> and to see a lifesize copy of the Eddystone Lighthouse and the rowing boat in which Grace Darling and her father rescued stranded occupants of a wrecked ship.<ref name="grace">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Exhibitions from parts of the British Empire outside the United Kingdom included an African village, 50 "natives of Indian and Ceylon", camel and elephant rides, and a Canadian toboggan ride<ref name="grace" />

It was followed in 1887 by the Royal Jubilee Exhibition also in Liverpool.