October 1, 2002 - January 30, 2003 - New York
The New York Historical Society, 2 West 77th Street at Central Park West, in cooperation with the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation, presents Degrees of Latitude, Mapping North America, Tuesday to Sunday 10AM-5PM. This
exhibition and the accompanying catalog highlight over 70 rare maps from the collection of Colonial Williamsburg. A
number of these historic maps of exploration date from the 16th and 17th centuries, including early maps of Virginia by
John White (1590) and Captain John Smith (1624). Each of the thirteen colonies is represented, including many of the
best maps made of English and European holdings in America during the seventeenth and eighteen centuries. In addition
to the exhibition and publication, The Acorn Foundation will be producing a thirty-minute video documenting the history
of mapping America.
November 13, 2002 - March 1, 2003 - Karlsruhe, Germany
Der Rhein im Panorama, von 1825 bis heute [Panorama of the Rhine, from 1825 to today] at Badische
Landesbibliothek, Erbprinzenstrasse 15, D-76133 Karlsrube. Monday, Tuesday, Friday 08.00-18.00; Thursday 08.00-20.00; Saturday 09.30-12.30. Information from Dr. Martina Rebmann, Tel ++49-721/175.22.62, Fax ++49-721/175.23.33.
December 20, 2002 - March 16, 2003 - Brussels
Fortifications, the emergence of the modern city at International Centre for Urbanism, Architecture and Landscape
(CIVA), Kluisstraat 55 Rue de I'Hermitage, 1050 Brussels, Tuesday to Sunday, 10.30 - 18.30, Tel 02-642.24.50
November 24, 2002 - March 16, 2003 - Duisburg, Germany
Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg will exhibit Schiffe im Eismeer - Gerhard Mercator und die rnodeme
Arktisforschung [Ships in the Ice Sea - Gerhard Mercator and modern arctic research], Johannes-Corputius-Platz 1,
D-47049 Duisburg; Tuesday to Thursday and Saturday 10-17 h, Friday 10-14 h, Sunday 10- 18 h. Info from Tel
++49-(0)203-283.26.40
January 28, 2003 - March 21, 2003 - London
The Brunei Gallery is an exciting venue situated in the heart of London. Located between Malet Street and Thornhaugh
Street in the North West corner of Russell Square. An exhibition in the Gallery, Mapping the Treasures of Arabia, looks
at the changing face and knowledge of the Arabian Peninsula through maps, photographs and engravings. The exhibition
has three main areas of focus: Maps of the Arabian Peninsula; Makkah and Madinah (the Haramain) and the Hajj
Pilgrimage; with images of Life in the Desert. The collections drawn together by Marian Bukhari consist of maps and
engravings. The maps range from some of the earliest woodcuts of the late 15th century AD to the end of the 19th
century lithographs. The engravings show 18th and 19th century views of the Grand Mosque of Makkah, Madinah and
the pilgrimage. Combined with these are engravings illustrating desert life scenes from the same period, some of which
were exhibited at the Abdullah Naseef House in Jeddah, 1998. Additional information from The Brunei Gallery, School
of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG; Tel: +44 (0)20 7898
4046, Fax: +44(0)20 7898 4949.
February 7, 2003 - March 30, 2003 - Cracow, Poland
Imago Poloniae, an exhibition of treasures from the collection of Dr. Thomasz Niewodniczanski, will be at the National
Museum. The collection, which also contains numerous printed documents and manuscripts, centers around historical
impressions of maps depicting Poland. The exhibit moves to Wroclaw in April 2003.
January 28, 2003 - April 20, 2003 - Paris
The Bibliothèque National de France, Crypt, 58 rue de Richelieu, has organized an exhibition, Dreams of a Capital, a
selection of the most exceptional cartographical projects for the adornment of Paris during the 17th and 18th centuries.
The exhibition was organized by Jean-Yves Sarazin, curator in the Department of Maps. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10
a.m.-7 p.m., admission free.
A meticulous selection of cartographic documents on Paris makes it possible to open the gates to the mental world of the architects-urban designers who planned the development and adornment of Paris between 1675 and 1815. The exhibition covers projects which range from the detail of a district to the more ambitious plans aimed at redesigning the urban landscape. Since the 17th century, there was no lack of ideas for reducing the traffic blocks, the noises, the smells and dangers, but they were seldom put in application. Some of them gave birth to immediately visible works : covering of the Great Drain, development of the wharfs, market halls, church courts, squares, bridges and main streets, the broadening of roads by the alignment of houses. The projects were always limited in space and time. Under Napoleon III and with Haussmann as prefect of the department of the Seine, the Parisians lived through the most impressive transformation of their city. Works were begun continuing the ideas of the beginning of the 19th century and the more ancient ideas conceived by writers like Voltaire, La Font de Saint-Yenne, Gabriel Bory, by architects like Laurent Boisson, Pierre-Alexis Delamair, Pierre Patte, Pierre-Louis Moreau, Charles de Wailly, François Cointeraux. These concerns are of relevance even today as, far from stagnating, the capital continues to attract a population always worried about its well-being. Additional information from Catherine Hofmann.
January 2003 - April 2003 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Pictorial Maps of Ernest Dudley Chase at the Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library. This exhibit will feature
selections from Mr. Chase's gifts to the Harvard Map Collection. Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966), a graphic artist from
Winchester, Massachusetts, designed pictorial maps ranging in scale from his own hometown to global themes of
navigation, exploration, communication, and world peace. He could be alternately whimsical, didactic, and subtly
allusive--often on the same map.
February 3, 2003 - April 26, 2003 - Oxford
Street Mapping: an A to Z of Urban Cartography in the Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library. This exhibition will consider
the evolution of town plans as a cartographic genre, using examples from the Bodleian Library's map collections. Special
attention will be paid to the mapping of Oxford itself, monitoring cartographic development from the sixteenth-century
map of the city by Agas to the most recent products from the twenty-first century. There will also be the opportunity
compare the works of celebrated street map publishers over the centuries, while mapping of urban growth will be
portrayed through the development of St Petersburg from a desolate marsh to an imperial capital to commemorate the
300th anniversary of the city's foundation in 1703. There will be a selection of maps of streets that were planned but
never built. Other maps from around the world will compare cartographic styles and conventions over the centuries,
reflecting the considerable strengths of the Library's holdings. A catalogue will be produced to accompany the exhibition,
available for sale in early March. For further details, please contact Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad
Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; tel: 01865 287119, fax: 01865 277139.
December 7, 2002 - May 4, 2003 - Detroit
The achievements of the French king's colonial engineers are chronicled in an exhibition at the Detroit Historical
Museum, 5401 Woodward Drive, titled: France in the Americas: Cities of the King's Engineers in the New World in the
17th and 18th Centuries. More than 200 maps, plans and archaeological artefacts are displayed. The exhibition was
originally put together by La Corderie Royale, Rochefort, France. Its five components show structures at many sites
including Louisbourg, Quebec, Montreal, Detroit, Louisiana, Martinique and Cayenne before the arrival of the king's
engineers, then the training of the engineers, followed by street maps of the cities as planned by the engineers and designs
of public buildings. The last section shows how these early plans still shape the way many of these cities look today. The
exhibition previously was on display at the Stewart Museum in Montreal. Additional information from Eileen Meillon,
Stewart Museum, Montreal, Tel. 514-861-6701, Fax. 514-284-0123.
November 11, 2002 - May 5, 2003 - Charlottesville, Virginia
The Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia is showing Lewis & Clark, The Maps
of Exploration, 1507-1814. Special Collections is on the second floor of Alderman Memorial Library (#1 on the map of
the University grounds), two floors down from the main entrance on level four. The staff at the fourth floor circulation
desk can direct you to the elevator or to the stairs. Special Collections is open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.,
Friday and Saturday, 9a.m.-5p.m. when classes are in session. Verify hours of operation during intersession and summer
session. Additional information at 434-924-3025.
May 22, 2003 - June 5, 2003 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Slovenian National and University Library has an exhibit 18th Century Baroque Cartography and Graphic Art in
Carniola. The exhibition represents 18th century maps and engravings made in Carniola (approximately 30 maps,
engravings, books, and manuscripts). Maps visualise Carniola's geographic shape while engravings illustrate major
regulation project of the Sava Riverbed. The exhibition shows a selection of materials from the collections of the National
and University Library and of the national Museum in Ljubljana.
January 14, 2003 - June 7, 2003 - New Orleans
The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street, celebrates the Bicentennial Year of the Louisiana Purchase with
an exhibition Fusion of Nations, A Fusion of Cultures: Spain, France, the United States & the Louisiana Purchase. The
exhibition highlights the diplomatic heritage of Louisiana culminating in the Louisiana Purchase through an exciting
display of treaties, documents, maps, and paintings from archives in Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the United
States. For additional information phone 504-523-4662, fax 504-598-7108.
April 27, 2003 - June 13, 2003 - Leuven, Belgium
You are all invited to visit our small, but interesting exhibition at the University Library in Leuven, Ladeuzeplein 21. The
exhibition, Van Milaan naar Antwerpen [From Milan to Antwerp], tells the story of the "New Route" between Milan and
Antwerp (1621). During the 16th and 17th century, the Spanish king needed to find safe itineraries to connect Spain with
the Low Countries. Messages, men and money had to travel large distances between the southern and northern parts of
the Habsburg monarchy. The route from Milan to the Low Countries became known as "le chemin des espagnols" (the
Spanish Road). Michel Coignet, an Antwerp mathematician, drew a map of a "New Route" for commercial travel
between Antwerp and Milan in 1621. Only two copies of this map have survived. The most beautiful old atlases from the
collection of the University Library (Ortelius, Mercator, Blaeu and others) are on display to illustrate the "New Route".
A passing reference is being made to a project of digitization of old maps. Opening hours of the exhibition:
Monday-Friday, 9.00 - 18.30
March 21, 2003 - June 22, 2003 - Milwaukee
The Milwaukee Art Museum, in cooperation with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, presents Degrees of Latitude,
Mapping North America. This exhibition and the accompanying catalog highlight over 70 rare maps from the collection
of Colonial Williamsburg. A number of these historic maps of exploration date from the 16th and 17th centuries,
including early maps of Virginia by John White (1590) and Captain John Smith (1624). Each of the thirteen colonies is
represented, including many of the best maps made of English and European holdings in America during the seventeenth
and eighteen centuries.
April 24, 2003 - June 30, 2003 - Wroclaw, Poland
Imago Poloniae, an exhibition of treasures from the collection of Dr. Thomasz Niewodniczanski, will be at the Ossolinski
National Institute. The collection, which also contains numerous printed documents and manuscripts, centers around
historical impressions of maps depicting Poland.
July 14-23, 2003 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
For the first time ever, India and the UK will celebrate the greatest feat known to man, which changed the world's view
on the Great Indian Sub-Continent, and yet is known only to the scientific community. The Great Arc Festival is a
6-month event across 5 cities in the UK. The festival celebrates the survey of the Indian Sub Continent, 200 years ago,
led by Col. Lambton and George Everest - a historical achievement known as the Great Arc. The Great Arc Festival is an
opportunity for the scientific community, and importantly, the common man to celebrate the Spirit of Man and his eternal
quest for adventure. A collaborative effort between Science and the Performing Arts, the festival will establish India as
the forerunner in providing advanced satellite technology, mapping and other derivatives, as well as re-visit India's
primary role in the scientific world. The festival will host the Great Arc Exhibition. It provides a unique opportunity to
see historic instruments and archives from the Survey of India Museum collections in Dehra Dun (including Ramsden's
Great Theodolite, last seen in Britain at the Science Museum Festival of India exhibition in 1981). There will be
international seminars and the release of a pictorial book on the Great Arc by John Keyes, feature promotional films,
documentaries and more…, along with some of leading Indian artists in the field of the Performing Arts.
April 27, 2003 - July 27, 2003 - Newport, Rhode Island
The Newport Art Museum is venturing into new territory with the exhibition of books, maps, and manuscripts relating to
maritime history. The sea, and the art it has often inspired, are not strangers to the Museum, located as it is in the
yachting capital of the world. What is novel is an historical exhibition at the Museum that features classic texts and
cartographic works, from the era of Columbus to the time of Captain Cook and beyond. Entitled "The Boundless Deep .
. .": The European Conquest of the Oceans, 1450 to 1840, the objects to be displayed are entirely from the holdings of
the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island. The John Carter Brown Library is an independently funded
and administered institution, located on the campus of Brown University since 1901. Its collection of maritime books
from this early modern era--in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, English, German, and Italian--has few rivals in the
world.
May 17, 2003 - August 24, 2003 - Portland, Maine Mapping Maine: Four Contemporary Views at Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square; (207) 775-6145; Open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Fridays 10 a.m.-9 p.m. The connection between landscape painting and mapmaking will be explored by four contemporary Maine artists: Sam Cady, Eric Hopkins, Yvonne jacquette, and Natasha Mayers. From bird's-eye views of Maine towns and waterways, to shaped canvases of Maine islands, to abstract works using cartographic symbols, these artists' works speak evocatively of the idea of place
August 5-25, 2003 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
For the first time ever, India and the UK will celebrate the greatest feat known to man, which changed the world's view
on the Great Indian Sub-Continent, and yet is known only to the scientific community. The Great Arc Festival is a
6-month event across 5 cities in the UK. The festival celebrates the survey of the Indian Sub Continent, 200 years ago,
led by Col. Lambton and George Everest - a historical achievement known as the Great Arc. The Great Arc Festival is an
opportunity for the scientific community, and importantly, the common man to celebrate the Spirit of Man and his eternal
quest for adventure. A collaborative effort between Science and the Performing Arts, the festival will establish India as
the forerunner in providing advanced satellite technology, mapping and other derivatives, as well as re-visit India's
primary role in the scientific world. The festival will host the Great Arc Exhibition. It provides a unique opportunity to
see historic instruments and archives from the Survey of India Museum collections in Dehra Dun (including Ramsden's
Great Theodolite, last seen in Britain at the Science Museum Festival of India exhibition in 1981). There will be
international seminars and the release of a pictorial book on the Great Arc by John Keyes, feature promotional films,
documentaries and more…, along with some of leading Indian artists in the field of the Performing Arts.
April 25, 2003 - August 27, 2003 - Copenhagen
The Royal Library in Copenhagen will have an exhibition Denmark on the World Map. The exhibit will show the history
of Danish cartography mostly through maps of Denmark but also works of Danish cartographers abroad. The range in
time is from our first Ptolemy manuscript around 1250 to 2003 computer mapping. The exhibition takes place in the new
building called The Black Diamond. Exhibition hours are Monday-Saturday 1000-2100.
mid June 2003 - mid August 2003 - Berwickshire, Scotland
Coldstream on the Map - Original maps and copies of maps illustrating the development of Coldstream are on display at
the Coldstream Museum, 12 Market Square. Monday-Saturday 10am - 4pm, Sunday 2pm - 4pm. Additional information
from Judy Thompson, Assistant Curator, Scottish Borders Council Museum Service, 49 Newtown Street, Duns,
Berwickshire TD11 3AU; tel. 01361 884114.
June 17, 2003 - August 31, 2003 - Boston The Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, has an extraordinary collection of some 350,000 maps. Boston, the City Transformed is a display of some of the materials in the collection. Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
June 16, 2003 - September 2003 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
In conjunction with the 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography the Harvard College Library will
host the first exhibit to highlight Harvard's Cartographic Treasures. This exhibit will be located in the Harvard Map
Collection in Pusey Library and the Houghton Library. Significant items will be selected from the Houghton Library's
Leichtenstein Collection, the Harvard Map Collection, the Gutman Library of the Graduate School of Education, and the
Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. A sample of the items to be shown include: Casper Vopel's ca.
1558 world map in 12 sheets; Jodocus Hondius' 1595 8 sheet map of Europe; John Seller's 1675 map of New England;
Lewis Evan's 1749 map of the Middle British Colonies; Sanuto's 1588 atlas of Africa; Jeremy Belknap's 1796 manuscript
maps of the boundaries between the U.S. and the Indians; a Korean manuscript atlas from the 17th century; Haestens
16th century 6 sheet map of Jerusalem; and Osgood Carleton's map of the United States and his 1797 map of Boston.
Additional information may be requested by contacting maps@harvard.edu.
September 3-20, 2003 - Manchester, United Kingdom
For the first time ever, India and the UK will celebrate the greatest feat known to man, which changed the world's view
on the Great Indian Sub-Continent, and yet is known only to the scientific community. The Great Arc Festival is a
6-month event across 5 cities in the UK. The festival celebrates the survey of the Indian Sub Continent, 200 years ago,
led by Col. Lambton and George Everest - a historical achievement known as the Great Arc. The Great Arc Festival is an
opportunity for the scientific community, and importantly, the common man to celebrate the Spirit of Man and his eternal
quest for adventure. A collaborative effort between Science and the Performing Arts, the festival will establish India as
the forerunner in providing advanced satellite technology, mapping and other derivatives, as well as re-visit India's
primary role in the scientific world. The festival will host the Great Arc Exhibition. It provides a unique opportunity to
see historic instruments and archives from the Survey of India Museum collections in Dehra Dun (including Ramsden's
Great Theodolite, last seen in Britain at the Science Museum Festival of India exhibition in 1981). There will be
international seminars and the release of a pictorial book on the Great Arc by John Keyes, feature promotional films,
documentaries and more…, along with some of leading Indian artists in the field of the Performing Arts.
June 21, 2003 - September 30, 2003 - Arezzo, Italy
Leonardo da Vinci - La rappresentazione del territorio tra scienza ed arte [Leonardo da Vinci - the mapping of a
territory between science and art] at Palazzo Communale. The Exhibition is organized by the City of Arezzo and the
Instituto Geografico Militare of Florence, to mark the 500th anniversary of the drawing of maps of the Valdarno and the
Valdichiana by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). It will have a number of his manuscript maps on display, loaned by
Queen Elizabeth II from her collections at Windsor Castle, and shown in Italy for the first time. Also exhibited will be
maps and drawings of the region from the period just prior and after Leonardo's time, complemented by a series of
surveying instruments.
June 6, 2003 - October 5, 2003 - Rotterdam
De Zeven Provinciën [Maps of the Dutch Republic of the Seven United Provinces] 1615-1800 at Het Schieland Huis, 31
Korte Hoogstraat. The exhibition takes place in the Atlas Van Stolk. In 1835, the Rotterdam timber merchant Abraham
van Stolk founded this collection, which is referred to as "Atlas". It contains one of the most important collections of
Dutch historical prints.
October 9-12, 2003 - Jersey, Channel Islands
A tripartite exhibition is in the Members' Room of the Société Jersiaise, 7 Pier Road, St Helier. The 'centre piece' consists
of over 30 celestial, terrestrial, and 'fantasy' (e.g. 'Alice in Wonderland'/'Alice through the Looking-Glass' celestial)
globes, from diameters of 2 inches to 43 inches, produced by Jersey-born James Bissell-Thomas of the Isle of Wight firm
of Greaves and Thomas. The 'framework' is formed chiefly by about 90 original maps and charts of Jersey and of the
Channel Islands from 1482 (the 'Ulm Ptolemy') to ca 1860 from the private collection of Jerseyman Peter W. Luce FRGS
(and a founder member of IMCoS); apart from one 19th-century manuscript item, that of ca 1860 is a surprisingly
detailed map of Jersey to advertise "W.C. Shave, Importer of genuine Havannah cigars & tobacco. 3, Queen St. Jersey".
This collection has never previously been publicly displayed. The third part of the exhibition consists of working orreries
made - and demonstrated - by Peter Grimwood (member of the Scientific Instrument Society) of Suffolk.
April 30, 2003 - October 18, 2003 - Cambridge, England
The Cambridge University Library's Exhibition Centre has an exhibition Unfolding Landscapes: Maps of Cambridgeshire
from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II. The exhibit traces the key events in the mapping of the County from 1573-2003.
Included are the County maps of Christopher Saxton, William Kip, John Speed, Philip Lea, Emanuel Bowen, Richard
Baker and others; Richard Lyne's map of Cambridge (1574); John Ogilby's map of the road from Oxford to Cambridge
(1675); Ordnance Survey maps from 1836 to the present day - and much more! The exhibition is open: Mon-Fri
09.00-18.00, Sat 0900-16.30. (closed 25 August and 16-23 September inclusive.) Admission is free. The University
Library is on West Road. Additional information from Anne Taylor, Head of the Map Department, Cambridge University
Library, Cambridge CB3 9DR; Tel: +44 (0)1223-333041; Fax: +44 (0)1223-333160.
July 10, 2003 - October 19, 2003 - Concord, Massachusetts
The Concord Museum is pleased to announce that Degrees of Latitude: Maps of America from the Colonial
Williamsburg Collection will be on exhibit at the Museum in historic Concord, in the only New England venue. The
exhibition, organized by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, uses maps as a point of departure for understanding the
history of American settlement and colonization. This extraordinary collection of 72 historic maps and an atlas of early
America were selected for their rarity, historical importance and aesthetic beauty. "Maps tell us what was known or
believed about the land, suggest how people traveled and traded, and record routes taken across oceans and continents,"
said Margaret Pritchard, Colonial Williamsburg curator of prints, maps and wallpaper since 1982. "By the 17th century,
the profits generated from the American colonies created a need for maps to facilitate trade and promote new
settlements. Maps substantiated land claims, settled boundary disputes and recorded the battles and adventures of the
early colonists." Pritchard is co-author of Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America, 1590-1787, with Henry G.
Taliaferro, a dealer of rare maps and prints in New York. The catalogue is jointly published by the Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. The Museum is open Monday-Saturday 9-5, Sunday 12-5 (Sundays in July and
August, 9-5). The Concord Museum is located at the intersection of Lexington Road and Cambridge Turnpike. The
Museum is wheelchair accessible and has ample free parking on Cambridge Turnpike. For further information contact the
Concord Museum at (978) 369-9609 (Taped information).
June 1, 2003 - October 31, 2003 -Edinburgh
The National Library of Scotland's summer exhibition is Wish You Were Here!: travellers' tales of Scotland 1540-1960.
The exhibition focuses on fourteen manuscript journals of travellers to Scotland, ranging from a 16th century bishop, to
an 18th century merchant, to a 19th century servant in Sutherland, and a motorcyclist youth-hostelling in the 1930s. The
journals are accompanied by a wide range of supporting material - illustrations, guidebooks, artefacts (including a
motorcycle). But for lovers of maps, the exhibition offers even more - an opportunity to see about 30 original maps and
detailed scanned images of maps, covering some 400 years of Scottish mapping. The earliest and latest are seacharts,
from the 16th-20th centuries, and on the way are maps of Scotland, town plans, road maps - a whole range of mapping,
brought to life by the human descriptions and illustrations of the travellers. Maps also provide some of the incidental
details in the display: an almost life-size illustration of a motorcylist looked familiar - it is from an Ordnance Survey
cover! The exhibition is at the George IV Bridge Building.
Until November, 2003 - Reykjavik
An exhibition of Early Maps of Iceland is currently on display at the Culture House in Reykjavik (Hverfisgata 15). This
is the first time that (Bishop) Thordur Thorlaksson's map of Iceland (AM 379b, fol) has ever been on display. For those
of you not acquainted with this particular map of Iceland it is a manuscript map that was produced by Thordur for King
Christian V of Denmark and given to him in 1670. For those of you who also happen to be "saga" enthusiasts you will be
happy to know that there is a rather extensive exhibition of the Icelandic manuscripts (those that were returned to
Iceland) on display at the Culture House, too. Catalogs are available for both exhibitions.
October 1, 2003 - November 12, 2003 - London
For the first time ever, India and the UK will celebrate the greatest feat known to man, which changed the world's view
on the Great Indian Sub-Continent, and yet is known only to the scientific community. The Great Arc Festival is a
6-month event across 5 cities in the UK. The festival celebrates the survey of the Indian Sub Continent, 200 years ago,
led by Col. Lambton and George Everest - a historical achievement known as the Great Arc. The Great Arc Festival is an
opportunity for the scientific community, and importantly, the common man to celebrate the Spirit of Man and his eternal
quest for adventure. A collaborative effort between Science and the Performing Arts, the festival will establish India as
the forerunner in providing advanced satellite technology, mapping and other derivatives, as well as re-visit India's
primary role in the scientific world. The festival will host the Great Arc Exhibition. It provides a unique opportunity to
see historic instruments and archives from the Survey of India Museum collections in Dehra Dun (including Ramsden's
Great Theodolite, last seen in Britain at the Science Museum Festival of India exhibition in 1981). There will be
international seminars and the release of a pictorial book on the Great Arc by John Keyes, feature promotional films,
documentaries and more…, along with some of leading Indian artists in the field of the Performing Arts.
July 24, 2003 - November 29, 2003 - Washington
Like so many other exploration stories, the Lewis and Clark journey was shaped by the search for navigable rivers,
inspired by the quest for Edens, and driven by competition for empire. Thomas Jefferson was motivated by these
aspirations when he drafted instructions for the Corps of Discovery, sending them up the Missouri River in search of a
passage to the Pacific. The Library of Congress exhibition Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of
America will present a century of exploration that features the expedition of the Corps of Discovery as the culminating
moment in the quest to connect North America by means of a waterway passage.
The Library of Congress is the appropriate place to launch an exhibition focusing on western exploration. The Library is the home of William Clark's maps including the 1803 annotated map that the Corps of Discovery took on their journey. The Library is also the repository for Thomas Jefferson's papers and holds important documentation about his enduring interest in exploring the western portion of North America including his instructions to Meriwether Lewis for the journey, Jefferson's secret message to congress requesting funding for the exhibition, and his speech to the Indian chiefs (representing the Osages, Missouri, Otos, Panis, Cansas Ayowais, and Sioux) on their historic visit to Washington, D.C. in January 1806.
November 16-30, 2003 - Hoorn, Netherlands
Hoorn Stories is a project by British artist Anna Oliver. She will be making a map of Hoorn, based not on roads and
buildings but based on peoples' experiences. To make the work, she collects stories of events which have affected people
personally and which have happened in Hoorn: short stories (10-150 words) of what happened, how it made them feel,
plus the location of where it happened.. Exhibit in Hotel Mariakapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a; Friday-Sunday 2-5 pm or by
appointment. Information/reservations: (+)31 (0)229 273573.
May 9, 2003 - December 12, 2003 - Berlin
An exhibition marking the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Berlin Geographical Society, Von Berlin in die Welt -
Aus den Sammlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin [From Berlin across the World - from the collections of
the Berlin Geographical Society]. Exhibit at the Society, Arno-Holz-Strase 14, D-12165 Berlin, Monday-Friday 9 to
15h. Telephone 49-30-790.06.60.
November 22, 2003 - December 18, 2003 - Birmingham, United Kingdom
For the first time ever, India and the UK will celebrate the greatest feat known to man, which changed the world's view
on the Great Indian Sub-Continent, and yet is known only to the scientific community. The Great Arc Festival is a
6-month event across 5 cities in the UK. The festival celebrates the survey of the Indian Sub Continent, 200 years ago,
led by Col. Lambton and George Everest - a historical achievement known as the Great Arc. The Great Arc Festival is an
opportunity for the scientific community, and importantly, the common man to celebrate the Spirit of Man and his eternal
quest for adventure. A collaborative effort between Science and the Performing Arts, the festival will establish India as
the forerunner in providing advanced satellite technology, mapping and other derivatives, as well as re-visit India's
primary role in the scientific world. The festival will host the Great Arc Exhibition. It provides a unique opportunity to
see historic instruments and archives from the Survey of India Museum collections in Dehra Dun (including Ramsden's
Great Theodolite, last seen in Britain at the Science Museum Festival of India exhibition in 1981). There will be
international seminars and the release of a pictorial book on the Great Arc by John Keyes, feature promotional films,
documentaries and more…, along with some of leading Indian artists in the field of the Performing Arts.
July 1, 2003 - December 30, 2003 - Richmond
Beyond Lewis & Clark: The Army Explores the West at the Virginia Historical Society, 428 North Boulevard. To
commemorate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase by President Thomas Jefferson and the subsequent Lewis and
Clark expedition, the Virginia Historical Society will be the opening venue for this important exhibition, a collaborative
effort with the Kansas and Washington State historical societies, the U.S. Army's Frontier Army Museum, and the U.S.
Army Center of Military History. The Lewis and Clark expedition inaugurated a half century of western exploration led
by the US Army, in which Meriwether Lewis and William Clark served as captains. Other expeditions were led by such
renowned figures as Zebulon Pike and John C. Fremont. Moreover, in the decades before the Civil War, the army was
the federal government's "public works department." It identified the basic network of trails, surveyed the western
topography, and laid the groundwork for roads and railroads. As this exhibit will make clear, it is impossible to overstate
the role of the army in this critical period of national development. The Museum is open Monday-Saturday 10-5 / Sunday
1-5.
June 1, 2003 - December 31, 2003 - New Orleans
The Historic New Orleans Collection celebrates the Bicentennial Year of the Louisiana Purchase with the publication of a
400 page atlas Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps. The atlas illustrates and explores the physical nature of
the Louisiana territory from the earliest geographers to present-day satellite views. An exhibition accompanies
publication of the atlas at The Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street; phone 504-598-7171, fax 504-598-7168.
Featured maps include those from the Archives of the Indies in Seville, Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, the
Library of Congress, and the Newberry Library, as well as examples from the holdings of The Historic New Orleans
Collection.
June 19, 2003 - December 31, 2003 - Portland, Maine The Shape of Maine: Drawing Boundaries, Mapping History at the Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, (207) 774-1822, Mon.-Sat. 10 am - 5 pm, Sundays noon-5 p.m. The fascinating development of Maine's boundaries is explored in this interpretive exhibition. Through historic maps, artifacts, and documents from the collections of the Maine Historical Society, visitors can trace how people at different times worked to define the state's vast, unsettled wilderness and to create the physical and political boundaries of present-day Maine. Of particular interest are rare, hand-drawn and colored maps made in 1817 of Maine's northern Woods.
June 20, 2003 - December 31, 2003 - Mobile, Alabama
The achievements of the French king's colonial engineers are chronicled in an exhibition at the Museum of Mobile,
Southern Market/Old City Hall, 111 South Royal Street, titled: France in the Americas: Cities of the King's Engineers
in the New World in the 17th and 18th Centuries. More than 200 maps, plans and archaeological artifacts are displayed.
The exhibition was originally put together by La Corderie Royale, Rochefort, France. Its five components show
structures at many sites including Louisbourg, Quebec, Montreal, Detroit, Louisiana, Martinique and Cayenne before the
arrival of the king's engineers, then the training of the engineers, followed by street maps of the cities as planned by the
engineers and designs of public buildings. The last section shows how these early plans still shape the way many of these
cities look today. The exhibition previously was on display at the Stewart Museum in Montreal. Additional information
from Eileen Meillon, Stewart Museum, Montreal, Tel. 514-861-6701, Fax. 514-284-0123.
Until December 31, 2004 - Brussels
Bruxelles à ciel ouvert - Brussel tussen hemel en aarde - Brussels between Heaven and Earth at the City Museum,
Grand Place; Tel 32(0)2-279 43 50.