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May 2, 2009 - January 1, 2010 - Mystic,
Connecticut
Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to
Lewis and Clark, The Quivira Collection, an exhibition of rare
and historic maps dating from 1544 to 1802, will be at Mystic
Seaport. On loan from the private collection of Henry and Holly Wendt
of Washington, the traveling exhibit features more than 30 historic
maps, illustrations and books. The exhibit takes viewers along a
chronological journey, beginning with the collection's oldest map - a
rare 1544 woodcut by Sebastian Munster - and ending with Thomas
Jefferson's decision to commission the Corps of Discovery.
November 3, 2007 - January 3, 2010 - Texas
The
exhibit, titled Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps,
consists of 64 historic maps from the Yana and Marty Davis map
collection dating from 1548 to 2006. The exhibit will have maps that
deal with railroads, shipping and trading posts. The maps range from
16th-century exploration to the development of airlines. The book
"Going to Texas" is based on the exhibit (Texas Christian
University Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0875653440). This exhibit will
travel around Texas during its two-year tour. It can be seen at:
Old
Red Museum of Dallas County History and Culture in Dallas - November
3, 2007 - February 28, 2008
Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in
Canyon - March 13, 2008 - April 24, 2008
Museum of the Southwest
in Midland - May 8, 2008 - June 19, 2008
Mayborn Museum Complex at
Baylor University in Waco - July 3, 2008 - August 14, 2008
Museum
of South Texas History in Edinburg - September 10, 2008 - October 12,
2008
Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock- November 6, 2008
- December 14, 2008
Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine - January 2,
2009 - February 21, 2009
Centennial Museum in El Paso - March 5,
2009 - April 16, 2009
Old Jail Art Center in Albany - June 6, 2009
- September 6, 2009
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in
Fort Worth - November 6, 2009 - January 3, 2010
May 23, 2009 - January 3, 2010 - Greenwich
Adventure,
failure and disaster in one of the most hostile environments on Earth
will be the subjects tackled in a new exhibition at the National
Maritime Museum. North-West Passage: An Arctic Obsession
features more than 120 objects including maps, letters and native
Inuit artefacts, aimed at bringing British exploration of the Arctic
to life.
September 8, 2009 - January 3, 2010 - Austin, Texas
The
Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The
University of Texas at Austin, will present the exhibition Other
Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works, showcasing items from the
center's science collection that survey some of the most important
astronomical discoveries of the last 500 years. Coinciding with the
International Year of Astronomy, Other Worlds displays how
the historical role of astronomy has come to influence the way the
modern world is perceived. The exhibition spans history as it
examines the evolution of astronomy. Drawing from a variety of
sources, the exhibition features books, photographs and original
illustrations. With more than 40 rare editions of works by
astronomers such as Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe, Other Worlds
includes works by the individuals whose ideas revolutionized
astronomical thought. Highlights include the Coronelli celestial
globe (1688); Copernicus's De Revolutionibus (1543); first editions
of works by Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton; and
the first map of the moon. Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works
can be seen at the Ransom Center on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended Thursday hours to 7 p.m. On Saturdays
and Sundays the galleries are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries
are closed on Mondays.
October 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010 - Frisco,
Texas
Artifacts and memorabilia that pay homage to The
Shawnee Trail and explores and depicts authentic Texas cattle
drives are on display for the first time ever at the Frisco Heritage
Museum, 6455 Page Street. The exhibit, installed on the second floor
of the Heritage Museum, is made possible by former Fort Worth
Convention & Visitors Bureau CEO, Doug Harman, and consists of
clothing, accessories, maps, spurs, guns, and saddles.
September 12, 2009 - January 7, 2010 - New York
Exploring
the beginnings of New York as a pluralistic seaport and crossroads of
goods and cultures that continues to shape American character and
identity, the South Street Seaport Museum, 207 Front Street, will
present New Amsterdam: The Island at the Center of the World.
The exhibition will be the centerpiece of a citywide celebration of
the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of New York's
harbor under the Dutch flag. The program will commemorate the
founding of New Amsterdam by Dutch traders who planted the seed for
enduring American characteristics, such as diversity, tolerance, and
free trade. New Amsterdam: Island at the Center of the World
will offer insight into Manhattan's fabled past as America's greatest
natural harbor. The Dutch established the harbor before the British
took control of it in 1664, a period in New York's history that has
long been overlooked. Forward-thinking Dutch recognized the
importance of New York as a gateway into the new world and played a
significant role in the development of the port from a remote trading
post into a global economic, cultural, and political center. The
exhibition will narrate the story of Manhattan's beginnings with more
than 50 rare maps, landscapes, broadsides, prints, portraits, and
letters, illuminating 17th-century New York life. These artifacts
will be accompanied by maps of important world cities of the era,
allowing visitors to learn about the founding of New York in the
context of international urban history and growing trade networks.
New Amsterdam: Island at the Center of the World will be
organized into three thematic sections. One section is dedicated to
the work of 17th-century cartographer Johannes Vingboons, who drew
hundreds of maps of cities and trading posts worldwide. The maps
serve as a window into the competitive arena of global commerce in
the 1600s, showing the settlements of Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch
trading companies in places as far flung as Nova Scotia and Japan.
Visitors will be able to trace the origins of the first generation of
New Yorkers who traveled thousands of miles across the sea to work
in, and ultimately settle, New Amsterdam, which quickly emerged as a
17th-century global trade hub. Another section includes rare maps,
views, and plans of Manhattan Island from the 1660s.
September 18, 2009 - January 9, 2010 - Washington
Early
modern Europeans imagined China as a land of wonder, of riches, and
of enormous opportunity. The exhibition Imagining China: The View
from Europe, 1550-1700 displays rare books and maps from the
Folger Shakespeare Library collection, along with items from the
Library of Congress and the Walters Arts Museum. Exhibition is at
Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol Street, SE.
November 24, 2009 - January 9, 2010 - Christchurch, New
Zealand
Intriguing and rarely seen early maps, including
the meticulous cartography of Abel Tasman's early discoveries and
Captain Cook's explorations from the First and Second Voyages, are on
exhibition at Our City O-Tautahi, corner of Worcester Boulevard and
Oxford Terrace. The exhibition Finding New Zealand - how maps
show the exploration and development of New Zealand delivers a
taste of the excitement and wonder of 'newly' discovered lands. The
exhibition is jointly curated by Paul Arnold, proprietor of the
Antique Print Gallery in New Regent Street, and Neil McKinnon of
Timaru, the New Zealand representative of the International Map
Collectors' Society. Also featured are maps from the 18th Century
Italian cartographer Antonio Zatta, who published an atlas in
four-volumes. This atlas was the first to show the whole of New
Zealand and a map of Australasia recording Captain Cook's Voyages.
The maps are a rare opportunity to voyage with Captain Cook and
'view' features as he may have experienced them. Open Monday-Saturday
10am-4pm. Admission is free.
February 6, 2009 - January 10, 2010 - Springfield
To
celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, the Illinois
State Museum presents an interdisciplinary exhibition entitled From
Humble Beginnings: Lincoln's Illinois 1830-1861 which will
explore the Illinois that Lincoln knew through objects and stories of
the people who lived here. Objects and artifacts from the exhibition
include maps of Illinois from the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s.
June 13, 2009 - January 10, 2010 - Yonkers, New York
When
Henry Hudson's vessel, the Half Moon, sailed into New York Harbor in
1609, his voyage marked the unfolding of a New World. The Hudson
River Museum, 511 Warburton Avenue, will mark the anniversary of
Hudson's voyage to the New World with the exhibition Dutch New
York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture. The exhibition will
explore the Dutch legacy of a liberal, capitalist and multicultural
environment that permeated the colony of New Netherland and still
characterizes New York City today. The museum will bring the story of
Dutch influence to life through paintings, decorative arts, maps and
ephemera drawn from the museum's collections and from other museums,
including the Museum of the City of New York, the National Gallery of
Art, the New York Historical Society, the Smithsonian Museum of
American Art and Yale University Art Gallery.
September 18, 2009 - January 10, 2010 - Prato, Italy
The
Style of the Tsar exhibition at Prato Textile Museum, Via
Santa Chiara 24, will include exhibits from the collections of the
most important Russian museums as The State Hermitage Museum, the
Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, the Kremlin Museums and the
Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow as well as items from many Italian
institutes including Polo Museale Fiorentino museums. The exhibition
will bring together approximately 150 works of art illustrating the
way in which cultural, trade and diplomatic relations developed
between Italy and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, especially as a result
of the trading of Italian textiles. There are three parts to the
exhibition, and the second part uses a series of maps and travel
diaries written by merchants and ambassadors of the time to outline
the territory of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and provide an image of
the tsar.
September 27, 2009 - January 10, 2010 - Houston
To
mark the 40th anniversary of man´s landing on the moon, the
Museum of Fine Arts presents The Moon: "Houston, Tranquility
Base Here. The Eagle has Landed," an exhibition that
chronicles man´s enduring fascination over five centuries with
our nearest planetary neighbor. Ranging from moonlit landscapes by
the Old Masters and the Impressionists, to Ansel Adams´ iconic
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) and shots famously taken on
the moon by the members of Apollo 11, the exhibition provides a
dazzling overview of five centuries of moon-gazing. In addition,
early scientific instruments, books, moon globes, maps, Galileo
Galilei´s 1610 treatise on the moon, and objects from NASA will
be on view. The Moon will be presented in the Audrey Jones Beck
Building, 5601 Main Street.
October 18, 2009 - January 10, 2010 - Minneapolis
the
Louvre and the Masterpiece is an exhibit of more than 60
artworks, including Vermeer's "The Astronomer," on loan
from the Louvre museum in Paris. A related exhibit Night Sky in
the Age of Vermeer: 'The Astronomer' in Context is a show of
17th century prints, maps and objects including an astrolabe, a
celestial globe and a book shown in the Vermeer painting. Both
exhibitions can be seen at Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2400 Third
Avenue South.
November 12, 2009 - January 10, 2010 - Madison, New
Jersey
Fairleigh Dickinson University Library's
collection of Geographical maps of Afghanistan will be
display at FDU Library from Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m. - 11 p.m.,
Friday, 8:30 a.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., and Sunday, 2 -
10 p.m. The Library is located at 285 Madison Avenue. The exhibit is
free and open to the public. For more information call 973-443-8515
or x8516.
December 3, 2009 - January 10, 2010 - New York
A
new exhibit at Ellis Island National Monument draws attention to a
seldom-noted fact. When Henry Hudson discovered New York Harbor 400
years ago last September 11, Native Americans were already there.
They were the Lenape, aka Lenni Lenape ("the true people").
The Lenape homeland included not only the area now occupied by New
York City, but also a large territory that extended between the
Delaware and lower Hudson Rivers and included all of New Jersey as
well as parts of New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Lenape:
Ellis Island's First Inhabitants integrates a variety of
materials, including prehistoric artifacts, antique books, maps,
archival photographs, traditional Lenape clothing and crafts,
ceremonial objects, illustrations, paintings and dioramas, bronze
sculptures, and documentary films, that create a historical
narrative. The exhibit can be viewed in the third floor galleries of
the Ellis Island Museum, which is located in the refurbished Main
Building.
October 16, 2009 - January 16, 2010 - Vatican City
The
Astrum 2009 exhibition in the Vatican Museums will showcase
astronomical instruments over four centuries old next to the most
modern counterparts. The exhibit includes some 130 objects, including
instruments, maps, manuscripts of Galileo Galilei, models of the
Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, paintings, photographs, codes and
books. The exhibition coincides with the International Year of
Astronomy, promoted by the International Astronomical Union and
UNESCO.
June 25, 2009 - January 17, 2010 - Manchester
A
unique collection of rare Manchester maps reveals how worries about
congestion and binge drinking were just as prevalent 100-years-ago as
they are today. The drawings, part of an exhibition of 80 maps unseen
in public for up to 200 years, can be seen at The Historic Reading
Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate. On display at Mapping
Manchester - Cartographic Stories of the City is material held
by The University of Manchester and other institutions in the city,
including generous loans of materials from the Manchester City
Library and Archives, Chetham's Library and the Manchester
Geographical Society. There is an e-catalogue edited by Martin Dodge
and Chris Perkins on-line at
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/mappingmanchester//e-catalogue.pdf.
October 2, 2009 - January 17, 2010 - Santa Rosa,
California
It has been 41 years since Apollo 8, the first
manned space mission to escape the gravitational field of earth. One
of the lasting images from that mission, and one of the most
influential of all time, is the photograph Earthrise. The image of
the earth, out in space, inspired a new consciousness of the planet
and its place in the universe. Reaching back much further in time,
yet exploring a similar leap forward, is the exhibition Envisioning
the World: The First Printed Maps 1472-1700 at the Sonoma County
Museum, 425 7th Street. The exhibition delves into the journey to
understanding the world, its true size and shape, as well as its
place in the system of heavenly bodies. At the core of this
exhibition are thirty maps that originated in the major centers of
post-Renaissance Europe and are now in the private collection of
Henry and Holly Wendt. The Museum exhibited another collection of
maps belonging to the Wendts in 2004 in the exhibition "Mapping
the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark." While that
exhibition focused on the exploits of explorers, Envisioning the
World focuses on an adventure of the mind. It takes the viewer
from simple "T and O" maps that fused medieval Christian
thought with sources dating back to the ancient Greeks, all the way
to highly complex charts that display an advanced understanding of
the world and the motions of the heavenly bodies. Following the
intellectual thread of western culture, it is a story that touches on
ancient Greek scholars, famous astronomers such as Copernicus, the
navigators of the great age of exploration and the interplay between
the growth of scientific thought and the power of the church. The
maps themselves are also great works of art, reflecting rapid
improvement in printing and engraving techniques.
October 10, 2009 - January 17, 2010 - Kleinburg,
Ontario
Land is identity in Inuit art. According to the
western viewpoint, maps are visual representations that clearly
define and mark geographical locations and boundaries, but for the
Inuit of Cape Dorset (Kinngait), Nunavut, maps are a mode of
storytelling. And every piece of land has a story to tell at the
McMichael Canadian Art Collection's (10365 Islington Avenue) new
exhibit, Nunannguaq: In the Likeness of the Earth, which
features a large selection of prints, drawings, and sculptures
spanning three generations of Cape Dorset artists. "The Inuit's
approach to mapping was based mostly on oral tradition,"
explains Anna Stanisz, exhibition curator. "The Inuit based maps
on orientation points such as the best meeting places and hunting
grounds or the perfect place to go fishing, and these all served as
sources of communication and information." Stanisz explains that
before the explorers set foot in the Arctic, the Inuit traveled
throughout the vast land without the use of maps or any other written
documentation. They instead counted on their geographic knowledge,
which had been passed through many generations by oral means. And
this is why Stanisz decided to use the word "Nunannguaq" as
the first word in the exhibition. The word translates into "in
the likeness of the earth," in Inuktitut, and Stanisz thought
this was fitting since the art featured in the exhibition relays the
Inuit concept that the land could never be fully captured - there was
always a sense of mystery and elusiveness. The drawings of maps at
the McMichael interweave collective memories of previous trips with
environmental information to be passed on to fellow travelers, such
as alerts about the changing landscape, the directions of winds or
the conditions of snow and ice. The bulk of the collection of
historical maps in the McMichael exhibition date back the early
1900s, when European explorers journeyed to Canada's Arctic, eager to
carve out a piece of themselves. They asked the region's residents
for help to map out the wide and wondrous new land they had arrived
in. The result of that venture now hangs on the walls of the
McMichael. The historical Inuit maps displayed in Nunannguaq: In
the Likeness of the Earth provides an important visual context
to the early works of Cape Dorset artists.
October 30, 2009 - January 24, 2010 - Vatican City
A
new Vatican exhibit highlights the life of a Jesuit missionary whose
extraordinary intelligence, culture and open-mindedness helped him
bring Christianity to imperial China four centuries ago. The exhibit
is part of a series of events marking the 400th anniversary of the
death of Father Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit who spent 28 years
evangelizing, absorbing Chinese culture and bringing Western science
to the faraway Asian continent. The show in the Braccio di Carlo
Magno hall in St. Peter's Square, is titled On the Crest of
History, Father Matteo Ricci (1552-1610): Between Rome and Peking.
It was Father Ricci's scientific acumen and enthusiasm for cultural
exchange that won the trust and admiration of the Ming Dynasty
Emperor Wanli. A proficient cartographer, Father Ricci was perhaps
most appreciated for the maps of the world he made for the Chinese,
who at the time had little knowledge of the other continents, said
Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums and head curator of
the exhibit. The exhibit is divided into two parts. The first section
highlights the Jesuit order and scientific knowledge of the time; it
includes an immense painting from 1619 of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the
founder of the Jesuits, by Peter Paul Rubens and scientific
instruments from the 16th and 17th centuries, including astrolabes,
telescopes, early mechanical clocks, and Ptolemaic and Copernican
models of the earth. The second part of the exhibit is dedicated to
Father Ricci's stay in China; it includes displays of his
translations and examples of documents he wrote in Chinese,
Portuguese and Italian; Chinese tapestries; 17th- and 18th-century
Chinese statuary; and a colorful early-20th-century altar honoring
Confucius that belongs to the Vatican Museums.
November 7, 2009 - February 7, 2010 - Edinburgh
Picturing
Britain: Paul Sandby is a major exhibition of the work of the
artist and topographical draughtsman Paul Sandby (1731-1809) at the
National Gallery of Scotland. Commemorating the bicentenary of his
death, this is the first exhibition devoted to this pioneering figure
in the development of British landscape painting and topographical
drawing, and it includes works lent by the Royal Collection, National
Library of Scotland, Yale Centre for British Art, and the British
Museum. Sandby was appointed chief draughtsman to the Roy Military
Survey in 1747. Although he was an artist well-versed in continental
traditions, his early employment as a map-maker and topographical
draughtsman led him to produce carefully observed and composed views
of the native British landscape, including scenes taken in and around
London, or on extensive tours through England, Wales and Scotland.
The exhibit moves to the Royal Academy of Arts, London: 13 March 2010
- 13 June 2010. A richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the
exhibition.
January 19, 2010 - February 14, 2010 - Istanbul
An
exhibition will showcase rare Istanbul maps created between 1422 and
1922 at the city's Rahmi Koç Museum, Hasköy Cad. No: 5,
Hasköy 34445. Titled Istanbul Haritalari 1422-1922 [Istanbul
Maps 1422-1922], the exhibition displays a selection of maps
featured in Ayse Yetiskin Kubilay's book of the same name, which will
also be introduced at the ceremony.
September 16, 2009 - February 26, 2010 - Toronto
The
Archives of Ontario Gallery, 134 Ian Macdonald Boulevard, exhibit
Ontario-On The Map features original maps from the past
three centuries. The exhibit illustrates how the purpose of early
provincial maps changed from tools for settlement and exploitation of
resources to tools for understanding the evolving cultural and
physical landscape of Ontario. Free to public, 9-5, M-F.
October 31, 2009 - February 27, 2010 - Hamilton,
Ontario
Rare and fascinating maps that chronicle the
evolution of human knowledge about the countries in the Gulf region
will go on display for the first time in North America at the
McMaster Museum of Art, Alvin A. Lee Building University Avenue at
Sterling St. The Gulf in Historic Maps is an exhibit of 96
maps is from the collection of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin
Mohammed Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah, an avid collector and scholar
of ancient Gulf maps. It comprises both nautical and geographic maps
dating from the Renaissance - considered the golden age of
exploration - to the mid-19th century.
February 1-28, 2010 – Athens, Georgia
Georgia
on the Map is a Libraries-wide display of maps from the
University of Georgia Map Library showing the many facets of the
State of Georgia. Display themes include: Maps of Georgia, Maps of
the City of Atlanta, and Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of UGA (Main
Library); Road Maps and The Art of Road Maps (Miller Learning
Center); and Geologic and Topographic Maps (Science Library).
Historic maps of Georgia from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript
Library are featured in their current exhibit Where in the World
is Georgia? Historic Maps from 1550-1776 through February 25th,
2010. Permanent displays of maps and historic air photos of UGA and
Georgia are on display in the Map Library and first floor of the Main
Library.
February 1-28, 2010 - Muncie, Indiana
The
exhibit, The Geography of Black History, will be on display
in the front windows of the GIS Research & Map Collection on the
second floor of Bracken Library, Ball State University, in honor of
Black History Month. The exhibit features images and maps from the
"Atlas of Firsts," "Allyn Bacon Social Atlas of the
United States," "Atlas of African-American History and
Politics," and "The Atlas of African-American History"
from the Atlas Collection in Bracken Library.
October 2, 2009 - March 5, 2010 - Bristol, Indiana
Local
history enthusiasts will not want to miss the upcoming Mapping
Elkhart County exhibit at the Elkhart County Historical Museum,
304 W. Vistula (HWY 120). Thirty seldom before-seen maps from the
Historical Society collection will be displayed in the museum's
temporary exhibit gallery. Elkhart's earliest known plat map
completed in 1832 will be among the highlights. The map was signed by
Havilah Beardsley and included land along the Elkhart River from
Washington to Jackson Streets. Among the earliest plat maps to be
shown will be Crane's Addition to Goshen along Rock Run Creek (1832),
Plat of the Town of Benton (1834), and a traveler's pocket map for
the Midwest (1834). Also included will be a unique national map
published by J.H. Colton & Company, New York in 1856 that
included Goshen. Maps shown after the American Civil War will focus
on improvements made to infrastructure. Before 1874 Nappanee was
primarily a small farming community, and not until the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad created a route through the area did Nappanee grow. The
surveyor's map for the railroad's development through the area will
be shown. Essentially this plan laid the foundation for the growth of
the city, and many residents from neighboring Locke moved south to
live and prosper along the new railroad. A 1924 roads map and an 1888
drainage ditch map for Washington Township will also be included.
Surveying equipment and map drawing tools will be displayed alongside
the maps. The museum is open Tuesday - Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00
p.m.
July 3, 2009 - March 7, 2010 - Albany
The New
York State Museum, Empire State Plaza, exhibit 1609 honors
the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson's discovery of the Hudson River,
with documents, maps and images. The New York State Museum
collaborated with the State Archives, State Library, and Office of
Educational Television and Public Broadcasting on 1609, and
these institutions provided additional expertise, documents, and
artifacts for the exhibition. Phone (518) 474-5877 for additional
information.
March 2-9, 2010 - Seoul
The Northeast Asian History
Foundation will exhibit historical maps that support Korea's claim
that the term "Sea of Japan" should be replaced with "East
Sea" or "Sea of Korea." "The exhibition will shed
new light on the contentious issue over the naming of the body of
water between the Koreas and Japan," said Shim Jeong-bo, a
researcher at the foundation. He said a total of 40 maps that date
back to the early 20th century or before will be exhibited at the
National Assembly Library.
February 3, 2010 - March 12, 2010 - Fort Collins, Colorado
The
Water Resources Archive presents Finding Buried Treasures: Maps of
the Colorado River, an exhibit featuring historical maps of the
Colorado River Basin. The exhibit displays not only maps, but also
legislation, publications, and photographs relating to the history of
the Colorado River. The exhibit is located on the second floor of
Morgan Library, Colorado State University, 501 University Avenue, in
Archives and Special Collections. The exhibit is open Monday through
Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
February 1. 2010 - March 20, 2010 – Beijing
An
exhibition of Sino-Western Science, Technology and Culture has opened
at Beijing's Capital Museum. The exhibition follows the footsteps of
Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit priest who created the first cultural
bridge between China and the West. This year marks the 400th
anniversary of Ricci's death. Born in 1552, Matteo Ricci first came
to China as a missionary at the end of the 16th century, during
China's Ming Dynasty and Italy's Renaissance. As the first European
who brought western science, technology and arts to China, Matteo
Ricci helped open a window for ancient China to the outside world.
Moreover, he was also enthusiastic about learning the Chinese
language and culture and promoting them in Italy and the West. A
selection of 200 works from leading Italian and Chinese museums are
presented in the Capital Museum. On display for the first time are
paintings by some of the most important Italian artists of the time,
including Raphael, Titan, and Lorento Lotto. People can also see
tapestries, pottery, documents, and scientific instruments, which
testify to the completeness and importance of the grafts of European
knowledge and experience in China. Also on display are the works
produced by Ricci and his Chinese friends, maps and scientific
instruments.
November 6, 2009 - March 26, 2010 - Berlin
In
addition to Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter is considered the
founder of scientific geography in the early 19th Century. The year
2009 marks the 150th anniversary of their deaths. While Humboldt was
honored on this occasion in many places, Carl Ritter is usually
forgotten. For the Geographical Society of Berlin, the anniversary is
therefore a welcome opportunity for a fresh look at the life and work
of its honorary chairman and longtime supporter Carl Ritter. Der
„andere Gründervater" der Geographie: Carl Ritter
(1779-1859) und seine Bedeutung für die Geographie - eine
Veranstaltung zum 150. Todestag is an exhibit at Gesellschaft
für Erdkunde zu Berlin, Alexander-von-Humboldt-Haus,
Arno-Holz-Str. 14.
February 26, 2010 - March 27, 2010 – Helsinki
The
Helsinki City Planning Department’s exhibition and information
space Laituri, at Narinkka Square, has on view Helsinki on the
Map, an exhibition of old
maps of Helsinki. The material is from the collection of maps
published last year by the City of Helsinki Urban Facts, originally
from the Helsinki City Museum and City Archives. The maps and
accompanying aerial photos of Helsinki today show Helsinki’s
evolution to the present day: the land area, city plans, expansion
and the location of operations. Laituri is open from 10:00 to 18:00
Tuesday-Friday, and from 12:00 to 16:00 on Saturdays. Admission is
free.
February 27, 2010 - March 27, 2010 - Milan
The exhibit I
De Agostini e la Cartografia - Centoventi anni di cartografia in
Italia [The De Agostini Family and Cartography - One Hundred and
Twenty Years of Cartography in Italy] is at the Politecnico of
Milan, Bovisa Campus on Via Durando n. 10. The exhibit is organized
by the De Agostini family with the sponsorship and contribution of
the Milan Tourism Councillorship Territorial Marketing Office, the
Local Identity Office and the collaboration of the University of
Milan. “This exhibit takes us back in time and journeys through
the history of a family that is particularly tied to the city of
Milan and which has contributed fundamentally to the scientific
culture of Italy. It also allows all of us to better comprehend the
evolution of our territory and its identity”, said the Milan
Tourism Councilor, Massimiliano Orsatti. One hundred and twenty years
have passed since Giovanni De Agostini introduced modern cartography
in Italy allowing readers to see the characteristics and morphology
of the land and imagine the surrounding world on paper. The objective
of the exhibit is to “return to the starting point”
thinking about how our predecessors considered cartography and the
contribution these predecessors gave to our culture. It is also an
occasion to “look ahead” uniting the knowledge of the
past with the marvels of modern technology. The exhibit is divided
into five thematic sections. The first section of the exhibit shows
examples Ptolemy’s cartography, Arabic cartography (Al Idrisi,
etc), late medieval cartography and cartography from the 15th 16th
and 17th centuries. The visitor is captured by the vision of ancient
maps and an atlas dated the 16th century (Ruscelli published in
Venice). The visitor can observe that even though valid measurement
instruments were lacking the cartographer still gave valid shapes to
the lands mapped. The second section of the exhibit shows the
production by Giovanni De Agostini with the Limnology Atlas of
Italian Lakes (with the Maggiore, Varese, Como, Iseo, Idro and Garda
lakes). There is also a map of Italy on a scale of 1: 250.000 with
tables on Milan and Lombardy and geo-pictorial maps of the Italian
Regions with Milan, the Lakes and Lombardy highlighted. The material
is on show in glass showcases together with lithographic limestone
and engraving and drawing instruments. The third section is relative
to the photographic production by Father Alberto Maria De Agostini
with photos of the Lombardy Alpine foothills dated 1910 and of the
Madonnina (statue of the Madonna) carried to the top of Monte
Sarmiento in the Tierra del Fuego. There are also posters of films
edited in Milan following his return from his exploration in
Patagonia. The fourth section shows the work done in Milan by
Federico De Agostini in the field of encyclopedias books and maps
(Imago Mundi Encyclopedia, Pinocchio and a map of Lombardy scale
200,000 etc) The work instruments used in the 1950s are on exhibit in
a showcase. The fifth section of the exhibit is all about “new
cartography” and it is coordinated by dCom Research and
Education Unit of the Indaco Department of the Milan Polytechnic. The
evolution in digital instruments has generated new forms of
visualizing the territory beginning from the geo-referencing of data
to the dynamic maps narrating the territory through the real-time
visualization of data, information, places and people.
March 6-27, 2010 - Sedan, France
An
exhibition about Cassini, La
longue genèse de la carte dite des Cassini et ses prémices
(1666-1790),
will be held at Médiathèque municipale de Sedan, Corne
de Soissons. Additional information from Michel Desbrière.
December 26, 2009 - March 28, 2010 - Enkhuizen
The
exhibition Spiegel van de Zuiderzee [Mirror of the Zuiderzee]
outlines the development of maps of the Zuiderzee in the period from
1580 to 1932. The Zuiderzee was one of the hardest navigable waters
in the world. The exhibition of sixty maps and atlases, at the
Zuiderzeemuseum, presents charts of the Zuiderzee area from the
collection of the museum, many of which are included in the
accompanying book "Spiegel van de Zuiderzee" (authors Erik
Walsmit, Hans Kloosterboer, Nils Persson, and Rinus Ostermann; ISBN:
978 90 6194 230 6). Loans from libraries, archives and museums in the
Netherlands complete the exhibition. The Zuiderzeemuseum is open
daily from 10.00 - 17.00 hours (except Christmas Day and New Year).
December 9, 2009 - March 30, 2010 - Cambridge,
Massachusetts
In less than four months, from November 30,
1609 to March 2, 1610, Galileo made observations about the cosmos -
that the Milky Way contained thousands of previously unknown stars,
that the moon has widely varied topography and that four large moons
orbited around Jupiter, which itself was in motion - that would
profoundly alter the way humanity viewed its place in the universe.
Four centuries later, a new exhibition at the Harvard Map Collection
celebrates his discoveries, and explores their continuing impact on
the worlds of science, philosophy and religion. The exhibition,
Mapping Discoveries in the Heavens and Controversies on Earth,
is timed to coincide with Galileo's first "observing campaign"
and the publication of "Sidereus Nuncius," the text which
laid out his findings. Organized by Michael Mendillo (Boston
University Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering) and Joseph Garver (Interim Co-Head of Harvard
Map Collection and Reference Librarian), the exhibition will include
more than three dozen items, including rare astronomical maps and
charts from Mendillo's own collection, the Mendillo Collection of
Antiquarian Astronomical Maps and Charts, which is coordinated by the
Boston University Art Gallery. The exhibition will also feature rare
texts from Houghton Library's collections, several items from the Map
Collection and two prints from the collections of the Fogg Art
Museum.
March 19, 2009 - March 31, 2010 - Mason, Texas
The
Mason Square Museum, 103 Fort MacKavitt, will present a new exhibit
of Rare Maps of America and the lands that are now Texas.
Beginning with maps as early as 1595 by Magini and Porro, the display
includes early cartography showing the shores of the new world only a
hundred years after its discovery. The collection includes maps by A.
Ortelius from a small atlas of 1601 and a decorative map of
"Americae" by Gerard Mercator from 1610. Several examples
show the progressive understanding of the shape and errors in
geographical information, including maps showing California as an
island, and spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Mapmakers such as Philipp Cluver, G. De'Lisle, and Merian are
represented and the political boundaries often change with the
nationality of the map publisher. The Mason Square Museum is open
Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more
information call 325 347 0507 or 325 347 6781.
January 28, 2010 – March 31, 2010 – Rügen,
Germany
Historische
Landkarten von Rügen [Historical Maps of Rügen] are on
display at Museum der Stadt Bergen auf Rügen, Billrothstr. 20a,
18528 Bergen auf Rügen, Tel.: 03838 / 252226. Open Tues - Sat
11:00 – 15:00.
March 1-31. 2010 - Lexington, Massachusetts
A Journey
through Time: Lexington maps, 1600s to 1900s Come with us on a
journey through time, where you will see, on maps, the growth and
development of Lexington as its character is transformed over the
centuries. Copies of these unique and fascinating maps, selected from
the Edwin B. Worthen Collection, will be on display in the Piper
Gallery, Cary Memorial Library, 1874 Massachusetts Avenue.
January 19, 2010 - April 17, 2010 - New Orleans
In
conjunction with "¡Sí Cuba!," a city-wide
presentation of art, cultural, and historical exhibitions and
programs that relate to Cuban art and culture, The Historic New
Orleans Collection presents Louisiana and Cuba: Multiple
Perspectives. The exhibition, on view at the Williams Research
Center, 410 Chartres Street, features documentary photographs of Cuba
in the 1980s by New Orleanian Michael P. Smith set against earlier
maps and documents (18th-19th century) featuring Cuba and Louisiana.
This exhibition illustrates the cultural, political, and economic
connections that have historically tied these two places together.
Open Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
January 12, 2010 - April 18, 2010 - Washington
One
of the world's rarest maps -- a massive print from 1602 showing the
world with China as its center -- will soon be on permanent display
at the University of Minnesota. The James Ford Bell Trust announced
that it has acquired the Impossible Black Tulip, the first
map in Chinese to show the Americas. Only six copies of the map
remain and several are in poor condition. The cartographer Matteo
Ricci created the map, which is 5 feet high and 12 feet wide, at the
request of the Chinese emperor, who wanted the document to serve as a
resource for explorers and scholars. Ricci, a Jesuit priest, was
among the first Westerners to travel to China. The Library of
Congress, Great Hall, Northwest Pavilion, second floor, Thomas
Jefferson Building, will display the map for the first time in North
America where it will be scanned to create a permanent digital image
available to scholars. The map will then travel to the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts for a brief exhibition, before moving to its
permanent home at the James Ford Bell Library at the University of
Minnesota in the spring.
March 24, 2010 – April 28, 2010 – Berlin
Was
historische und aktuelle Vermessung und Kartographie zum
Biosphärenreservat Flusslandschaft Elbe-Brandenburg erzählen
can be seen at Rathaus
Spandau, Carl-Schurz-Str. 2, 13597 Berlin; Tel. 030 / 902 792 165.
November 12, 2009 – April 30, 2010 – Helsinki
The
View From Paradise. The History of the Maps of the Heavens can
be seen at The National Library of Finland located at the University
of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 36. The View from Paradise presents the
history of the viewing, illustrating and mapping of the heavens from
Antiquity to the present day from the scientific, cultural and
historical perspectives. The National Library of Finland’s
exhibition is the International Year of Astronomy 2009’s most
important event at the University of Helsinki. The exhibition begins
with the earliest depictions and myths of the heavens, thousands of
years before the beginning of recorded time, progressing to the
universe of the Greeks’ spheres and then to the astronomical
charts and star atlases of Late Antiquity. The oldest works displayed
date from the 1400–1500s; these include, for example, Claudius
Ptolemy’s main work Almagest, the most important source of
astronomical information for one and a half millennia. The exhibition
also familiarizes visitors with the exhaustive process of star
cataloguing, as well as how the Finnish professors of astronomy
Friedrich Argelander, Adalbert Krueger and Anders Donner had already
been participating in international mapping efforts during the 1800s.
Besides the massive, scientifically precise star catalogues,
hobbyists’ star atlases and guidebooks from the 1800s to the
present day are also displayed.
February 24, 2010 - May 1, 2010 – New York
An
evocative exhibition on the waterways heritage of America is at the
Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street. Lives on the Mississippi:
Literature and Culture along the Great River, from the
collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association explores
the history, development and life of the Mississippi River as a
distinct yet vast cultural region. Its traditions, lore, and heritage
reverberate in literature and art over nearly 2500 miles and more
than 400 years-a fertile and fluid meandering of consciousness,
vision, and imagination. Through early maps of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries; through French, Dutch and other travel
accounts; through records of politicians, engineers, and designers of
boats and bridges; through early humorous sketches and comic
almanacs; and through drawings, paintings and historical artifacts,
Lives on the Mississippi presents a broad picture of the
varied aspects of this unique environment. Open Monday-Saturday 10 AM
to 5PM.
April 7, 2010 - May 7, 2010 - Devon, Pennsylvania
On
display in the Fireside Gallery, Main Line Unitarian Church, 816 S.
Valley Forge Rd., is an Antique Map Exhibit.
Main
Line Unitarian Church member John Smith is displaying a collection
of his antique maps. Phone 610-688-8332 for additional information.
February 9, 2010 - May 15, 2010 - Kansas City,
Missouri
Mapping Missouri: Maps from the Collections
of the Missouri State Archives features more than 100 examples
of cartography from the Missouri State Archives' collection and is
supplemented by maps from the National Archives at Kansas City. This
exhibit includes historical maps from the 19th century that show how
surveying and cartography were key to European American settlement of
present-day Missouri. Drawing from diverse examples as the land
survey maps made by Antoine Soulard from 1796-1806 and computer
generated census maps made in the year 2000, this exhibit explores
the history of cartographic images of Missouri and the role they play
in our everyday world. The exhibit at the National Archives, 400 West
Pershing Road, is open Tuesday-Saturday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
February 11, 2010 - May 20, 2010 – Dallas
For the
2010 bicentennial of Mexico’s independence from Spain, the
DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, 6404 Hilltop Lane,
presents Mexico: Colony to Empire, 1519-1867. The exhibit
includes portraits, manuscript collections of viceroyalty documents,
papers signed by Spanish kings, land grants, applications for
nobility demonstrating purity of blood, documents related to the
Catholic Church, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Emperors Iturbide and
Maximilian, Imperial Orders, Mexican presidents, Santa Anna,
materials from the Mexican War and Texas Revolution, early maps,
currency and rare books. Open Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 pm.
April 7, 2010 - May 29, 2010 – Newark
For
generations of Englishmen, a journey through the cultural epicenters
of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries was considered a fashionable
rite of passage reserved for the wealthy and elite. The trip, dubbed
by author Richard Lassels as the “Grand Tour” in 1679,
typically included extended stops in Paris, Florence, Milan, Venice
and Rome. The route expanded with time and often included Berlin,
Geneva, Amsterdam, the Hague and other cities. The Newark Public
Library, 5 Washington Street, will re-create this journey through
vintage travel posters, fine prints and illustrated books that
highlight the history, architecture and art of the cities along the
Grand Tour route. The exhibit, The European Grand Tour: Visiting
the Old World through the Collections of the Newark Public Library,
will be on display on the library’s second floor gallery. The
exhibit will include engravings and etchings of European cities by
various artists from the 16th to 20th centuries, maps from the 16th
century, modern day tourist maps, and massive illustrated tomes of
various cities often visited by these young gentlemen. For more
information about the exhibit, please call 973-733-7745 or email
specialcollections@npl.org.
January 30, 2010 - May 30, 2010 - Greenwich,
Connecticut
The Bruce Museum, One Museum Drive, presents
the new exhibition Writing the Earth: 2,000 Years of Geography
and Mapping. The exhibition features a selection of world maps
that were printed between 1511 and 1800 and are on loan from a
private collection. The show also includes a small group of maps from
1570 featuring the Americas.
April 18, 2010 - May 30, 2010 - Karlsruhe
Kriegsschauplätze des Donauraums im 17. Jahrhundert auf
Karten und Plänen [Battlefields of the Danube area in the 17th
Century maps and plans] can be seen at Stadtmuseum Karlsruhe,
Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlstraße 10. There is an accompanying
publication - Volker Rödel: “Zwischen den Welten.
Kriegsschauplätze des Donauraums im 17. Jahrhundert auf Karten
und Plänen”, ISBN 978-3-00-030766-9.
January 27, 2010 - May 31, 2010 - Providence, Rhode
Island
Exhibitions in the MacMillan Reading Room , John Carter
Brown Library, are open to the public 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday
through Friday, and Saturday 9:00 a.m. until noon. Presently the
exhibition in the Reading Room is Map Talk: A Conversation with
Maps at the JCB. Several recent
(and not-so-recent) books and exhibitions that explore the subjective
nature of cartographic material have introduced new ways of
encouraging interaction or “conversation” with old maps
that can provide insight into the intricacies of earlier human
understanding of the nature of the physical world. During the period
of European expansion, when the maps shown in this exhibition were
produced, the configuration and very nature of our world appeared to
change almost daily as voyages of discovery and exploration brought
back conflicting and puzzling information that challenged accepted
views of the cosmos and man’s place in it.
December 2, 2009 - June 2, 2010 - Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
CARTE Museum (Cartographic Acquisition,
Research, Teaching & Exhibition Museum) will open December 2,
2009. Located near the Louisiana State University campus, the museum
will feature maps, books, views and atlases depicting the cartography
of the Gulf South, and political and geographic development of the
United States. The museum is a non-profit entity and open to anyone
wishing to do map research or view current exhibits. The first show
will be Finding the Mississippi a display of significant
maps depicting the lower Mississippi and its juncture with the Gulf
of Mexico from 1513 to 1764. The museum is open on Wednesdays 9am to
5pm, and is located at 2347 Christian Street, phone 225 387-6119.
March 1, 2010 - June 4, 2010 - Ann Arbor, Michigan
American
Encounters: Sources for the Study of Native American History
is on display in the Great Room of
the William L. Clements Library, 909 S. University Ave. Open to the
public Monday through Thursday, 1:00-4:45 or by appointment. American
Encounters highlights the great range and depth of the Clements
Library’s collections related to Native American history. The
exhibit features items drawn from many areas of the collection,
including books, maps, manuscripts, prints, and photographs, which
document over four centuries of history. These artifacts illustrate
different types of cultural encounters over the course of American
history and feature some of the library’s greatest strengths.
Included are printed accounts of early encounters between indigenous
peoples and European explorers, manuscripts and maps that record a
long history of warfare and diplomacy, wampum and trade silver, peace
medals, portraits of native leaders, and photographs of Indian
schools.
April 23, 2010 – June 6, 2010 - Kanazawa City, Japan
The
Arabian Heritage from Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates is being
held for the first time in Japan at Ishikawa-Ken History Museum.
Paintings, calligraphic and other art works inspired by UAE Arabian
traditions and heritage are being exhibited at the event. A
collection of 52 historic maps from the 15th century to 19th century
owned by Sheikh Sultan is being exhibited at the venue of the event.
March 13, 2010 - June 13, 2010 - London
Picturing
Britain: Paul Sandby is a major exhibition of the work of the
artist and topographical draughtsman Paul Sandby (1731-1809) at the
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly. Commemorating
the bicentenary of his death, this is the first exhibition devoted to
this pioneering figure in the development of British landscape
painting and topographical drawing, and it includes works from the
Royal Collection, National Library of Scotland, Yale Centre for
British Art, and the British Museum. . Sandby was appointed chief
draughtsman to the Roy Military Survey in 1747. Although he was an
artist well-versed in continental traditions, his early employment as
a map-maker and topographical draughtsman led him to produce
carefully observed and composed views of the native British
landscape, including scenes taken in and around London, or on
extensive tours through England, Wales and Scotland. A richly
illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
April 17, 2010 - June 18, 2010 - San Diego
Maps tell
stories. See the story of how the US-Mexico border evolved over the
last four centuries in Changing Boundaries: Historic Maps of the
U.S.-Mexico Frontier. Original maps dated as early as 1600 show
the claims, counter claims, conquests, and discoveries that resulted
in the current line. See proof that California is an island and learn
why San Diego is in the United States. This exhibit of historic maps
is from the Mexican map collection of Simon Burrow. Exhibit can be
seen Monday through Saturday, 9 am - 8 pm in Exhibit Hall, Student
Life Pavilion, University of San Diego. Additional information from
Charles Pope at (619)260-4090.
September 25, 2009 - June 26, 2010 - New York
Mapping
New York's Shoreline: 1609-2009 is at the New York Public
Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This is a
"Hudson-Fulton-Champlain exhibition" that will take the
waterside view of New York harbor and its neighboring watersheds,
wetlands, coastlines, sounds, and shores. The exhibition will put the
port in its historic context at the midpoint along the northwest
coast of the Atlantic, a point aimed at by Henry Hudson as he sought
the mythical Northwest Passage to Asia. The Dutch settled in the area
when it was found to be a convenient port for trans-shipment of furs
and pelts back across the North Atlantic to Amsterdam. The British
found it handy to bivouac here throughout the American Revolution,
and mapped and charted the area thoroughly during their stay. Once
the United States was established, the need for accurate, locally
produced charts was met by private concerns and the newly established
United States Survey of the Coast. With the opening of the Erie Canal
in 1825, the port of New York came into its own as a major export
station for wheat, corn and other produce from the heart of America.
The complexity of the piers and ferries and shoreline businesses
gives a vibrancy and unique flavor to the maps and charts of the port
of New York and neighboring waters: Connecticut River, Long Island
Sound, the Raritan, Sandy Hook, the Jersey shore and the Delaware
River. This entire area was once called Nieuw Nederland, an aspect of
local history that is much forgotten.
February 26, 2010 - June 27, 2010 - St. Louis
The Saint
Louis University Museum of Art, 3663 Lindell Boulevard, presents
Crossing the Divide: Jesuits on the American Frontier. Founded
by Ignatius Loyola in the year 1534, the men of the Society of Jesus
(the Jesuits) concentrated their efforts on foreign missions,
education and scholarship. In the year 1823, a new generation of
Jesuit missionaries arrived in St. Louis. Crossing the Divide:
Jesuits on the American Frontier contains extremely accurate
documentation of the new world this group of Jesuits entered as they
crossed cultural, linguistic and religious divides. The exhibition
displays dictionaries of Native-American languages, as well as
extremely accurate maps and detailed journals.
April 13, 2010 - June 30, 2010 - Makati City,
Philippines
According
to Richie Quirino’s version of history, the National Artist
Awards were born out of the Marcos administration’s desire to
punish his father, historian Carlos Quirino, after he refused to
write a biography of former President Ferdinand Marcos despite being
offered a million pesos. “He didn’t want to be associated
with a dictator,” Mr. Quirino said. In retaliation, the
Marcoses withdrew their support, ceased to invite his father to
Malacañang functions, and made sure that Carlos Quirino would
never become a National Artist. Prior to the declaration of Martial
Law, the highest distinction an individual could receive in arts and
culture was the Republic Cultural Heritage Award, which the elder
Quirino won twice for his achievements in historical literature. When
the National Artist Awards took its place in 1972, it included no
such category. The situation was amended in 1997 when then President
Fidel Ramos added Historical Literature and named Quirino the first
and, thus far, only recipient of the National Award for Historical
Literature. Pen, Paper, and Bookmaking: The Life of Carlos
Quirino, an exhibition at the Yuchengco Museum (4/F Upper Wing
Gallery, RCBC Plaza, Corner Ayala and Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenues)
celebrating Quirino’s birth centennial, tells the story of the
first controversial National Artist through more than 70 items from
the Quirino family archives and private collections. These include
manuscripts, diaries, personal letters, memorabilia and rare books
and maps from his personal library. Among the many books he wrote
were biographies of National Hero Jose Rizal, President Manuel Quezon
and painter Damian Domingo; as well as scholarly takes on subjects as
varied as the local sugar industry and war. Of all the things he
wrote in his lifetime, "Philippine Cartography" is widely
considered to be his magnum opus. First published in 1959, the book
was hailed as “a landmark history of Philippine maps and their
cartographers.” In conjunction with the Pen, Paper, and
Bookmaking, Vibal Foundation has launched a coffee-table reprint
of "Philippine Cartography" -- the first in a series of
republications of Quirino’s work, which includes an
introduction by Mr. Garcia and more than 120 maps from the finest
collections in the Philippines. Quirino’s love for maps began
when he was a Boy Scout learning the basics of orienteering. As he
grew older, his fascination grew and he began collecting in earnest.
In 1598, Petrus Kaerius (also known as Pieter Van Den Keere)
published the first separately printed map of the entire Philippine
archipelago. Aside from being oriented horizontally, Insulae
Philippinae included an interesting bit of text written in Old Dutch,
which, when translated, described Filipinos as “people without
laws” and “cannibals.”More than 100 years later,
the “Mother of all Philippine Maps” -- made by Father
Pedro Murillo Velarde, a Jesuit, and engraved by two Filipinos --
cast a more positive light on the “indios” who were
described in French as of good height, beautiful and
dark-complexioned. The priest also praised Filipinos as good writers,
painters, sculptors, blacksmiths and sailors. This map was copied and
recopied, spreading Murillo Velarde’s benevolent opinion of
Filipinos along with a few cartographical mistakes and a famous
legend that Saint Francis Xavier reached Mindanao even though he did
not. Other maps of interest that are on view include Terza ostro
tavola by Giovanni Battista Ramusio and Giacomo Gastaldi, a 1563
upside-down map from Italy that marks the first time “Filipinas”
appear in a European document, which is why it is called the birth
certificate Philippines; a 17th-century Mercator map that alludes to
the Manila Bay battle between Antonio de Morga’s Spanish forces
and the Dutch, coveted among collectors because it places the
Philippines dead center; and Abraham Ortelius’s Maris Pacifici,
the first mapping of the Pacific Ocean that includes a drawing of
Ferdinand Magellan’s ship Victoria, the first to circumnavigate
the world, sailing to the Philippines.
January 19, 2010 - July 3, 2010 - Cambridge, England
Spies
unmasked as library blows cover. Cambridge University Library, West
Road, is shining a light on the shadowy world of espionage. Chris
Elliott reports. 'OK comrades, the balloon, she has gone up. We are
at war with British, and tonight we parachute team of special agents
on Cambridge. We meet next to the big chapel of King's College, near
Cam river, 22.00 hours. Udachi." Had the balloon really gone up
back in the politically fraught 1980s, and Soviet agents really
mounted an airborne spying mission on Cambridge, they would indeed
have needed "udachi" - good luck. But they would have had a
detailed map of the city in their kitbags, printed in Russian
Cyrillic script, to help them find their way about. Proof positive
that such maps actually existed is on display at Cambridge University
Library, in a new exhibition focusing on espionage - not just during
the Cold War, but dating back to Biblical times. The library has one
of the world's biggest collections of printed material, and the
exhibition, called Under Covers: Documenting Spies, draws on
personal archives, printed books, official publicity material and
specialist photographs and maps to illustrate a few of the ways in
which spies have been documented. Exhibits encompass a
twelfth-century manuscript recounting the story of King Alfred the
Great entering the Danish camp disguised as a harpist; papers used by
a parliamentary committee investigating the Atterbury Plot in the
1720s; a draft telegram from the MI6 chief in St Petersburg in 1916
sending news of Rasputin's murder; and an autograph letter from
Anthony Blunt telling how he was almost beaten up in Nazi Germany on
account of his political views. The display concludes with a section
on the use of aerial photography and mapping in espionage, including
a Soviet military map of East Anglia from the Cold War era. Open
Monday-Friday 09.00-18.00, Saturday 09.00-16.30, Sunday closed
(closed 2-5 April inclusive). Admission Free.
May 29, 2010 - July 3, 2010 – Dieppe
Dieppe
is famous, in the cartographic world, for its school of chartmakers.
Most of the charts produced there as of about 1540 by Nicholas
Desliens, Jean Rotz, Pierre Descelliers, Guillaume le Testu, Jean
Guérard,
and others are now dispersed around the world. The Dieppe Municipal
Library (Médiathèque Jean Renoir, 1 quai Bérigny)
still posses some interesting vestiges of its glorious past which
will now be on display in the exhibit Armateurs
et navigateurs dieppois (XVIe - XIXe siècles) [Ship-owners and
Navigators of Dieppe from the 16th to the 19th centuries]. Tel.
+33 2 35 06 62 62.
March 18, 2010 - July 5, 2010 - New York
Construction
in New York City is always complex, but it raises particular concerns
when it cuts through the most archaeologically rich section of town.
In February 2009 a new South Ferry subway station opened on the
southernmost tip of Manhattan, a place where environmental,
historical, and commercial interests collide. In order to build the
station, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was required to
conduct an archeological review and excavation. This provided an
extraordinary glimpse into the very place that the modern city has
its roots, and the basis of an exciting new exhibit at the New York
Transit Museum. Where New
York Began: Archeology at the South Ferry Terminal will
be on view at the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store,
Grand Central Terminal, Shuttle Passage, 42nd Street and Park Avenue.
In addition to unearthing portions of the city’s early
infrastructure, excavations yielded over 65,000 artifacts, including
ceramic sherds, shells, coins, tobacco pipes, and architectural
materials. These pieces document 400 years of city life and embody
the cycle of building, razing, and rebuilding that is a hallmark of
New York City. Over 100 of these objects will be on view along with
historic maps and photographs, and field images and video of the
archeologists at work. Open Monday - Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.;
Saturday and Sunday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
March 7, 2010 – July 18, 2010 – Dallas
The
Spanish King Charles IV witnessed a series of momentous events during
his life (1748-1819) and reign (1788-1808). In Europe, it was a time
of revolution and reaction, with the coming of the French Revolution
and the Napoleonic Wars. In the New World, 13 of the British colonies
in North America revolted in 1776, and by the first quarter of the
19th century, Mexico as well as other countries in South America had
embarked on the road to political independence. It was also a time of
significant economic and social change, with the beginning of the
industrial revolution and the renewed growth of capitalism and
commerce. In Contours of
Empire: The World of Charles IV,
in the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University (downstairs
galleries), 5900 Bishop Blvd., the public will see displayed a number
of rare books, broadsides, pamphlets, maps, prints, newspapers and
periodicals from Southern Methodist University’s DeGolyer
Library that help to illustrate this dynamic period in history. Among
the maps on display are “Map of New Spain” by
Alexander von Humboldt and “Suite du Theatre de la Guerre dans
l’Amérique Septentrionale y Compris le Golfe du Mexique”
by Louis Brion de la Tour.
August, 2009 – July 23, 2010 - Washington
In
a world where we can keep tabs on our own backyards from our desks at
work, via satellite, it's difficult to imagine the impact one man
armed with notebooks and pencils could have in 1861 as the Civil War
began to rend our young nation. Generals on both sides of that
conflict desperately needed good topographical information to plan
attack and defense. One good mapmaker could be worth battalions of
firepower. Into this fray stepped a New York-born schoolteacher named
Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828-1899). Jed had moved to Virginia, and
initially aided the Confederate war effort by hauling supplies.
Before long, he was making maps for Brig. Gen. Richard B. Garnett,
and eventually he became the mapmaker for Gen. Robert E. Lee and Maj.
Gen. Stonewall Jackson. These history-changing maps are the subject
of an exhibition, Jed Hotchkiss, Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker,
in the foyer of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of
Congress in the basement of the Madison Building, 101 Independence
Avenue. Hotchkiss' maps, many drawn from horseback, were
extraordinary for their accuracy. Jackson's successes in the 1862
campaign were largely credited to those remarkable maps. Hotchkiss,
who rose to the rank of major, also was entrusted with choosing lines
of defense and arranging troops during several crucial battles.
Contact Ed Redmond at (202) 707-8548 for additional information.
March 26, 2010 - July 25, 2010 - Mexico City
The
Mexican Foreign Ministry, together with the former San Ildefonso
College, has organized an exhibit entitled A
Journey through Maps: Exploring the Codes of Latin America.
The exhibit, which illustrates 200 years of the history of the Latin
American nations through more than 90 maps, includes the original map
that redrew the border between Mexico and the United States after the
1848 American invasion. The exhibit will be in the former San
Ildefonso College located between San Ildefonso Street and Justo
Sierra Street in the historic center of Mexico City.
July 1-31, 2010 – Elgin, Moray, Scotland
Moray's
development over the centuries is being featured in a free exhibition
at Elgin’s Heritage Centre. Ordnance Survey maps of the area,
estate plans, Pont’s map dating from 1590 and Kay’s
military map of 1750 are included in the exhibition. Heritage officer
Graeme Wilson said Pont’s map was the first survey drawn of
Moray. The Heritage Centre is within East End Primary School,
Institution Road, Elgin. Phone 01343 569011 or e-mail with enquiries.
February 7, 2010 - August 1, 2010 - Princeton
An
exhibition titled Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps,
1472-1700 can be seen at the Milberg Gallery of Firestone
Library, Princeton University. The exhibition will feature
approximately 30 rare world maps drawn from the collection of Henry
Wendt of Princeton's class of 1955 and will explore the major trends
in intellectual history from the early Renaissance through the
scientific era of the Enlightenment. Through the language of
cartography, the maps in the exhibition illustrate the way in which
scientists, mathematicians, explorers and cartographers came to grips
with the shape, size and nature of the Earth as a whole and its place
in the universe. Highlighted in the exhibition are the important
contributions to this evolving cosmography of: Ptolemy (c. 90-168 );
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543); Galileo Galilei (1564-1642);
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630); and Edmond Halley (1656-1742). Works
featured in the exhibition include: the first printed map (1472), a
schematic concept of the continents in the form of a "T"
encircled by an "O" of ocean; the first printed road map
(1598), showing the cursus publicus, the postal system of the Roman
Empire, in eight sections totaling 14 linear feet; highly decorative
exemplars from the golden age of Dutch mapmaking (17th century); and
elaborate hand-colored celestial views (1700), representing the
constellations with figures from Greek mythology. Also on view from
the holdings of the University's Department of Rare Books and Special
Collections will be "forbidden books" from two of the most
influential figures in the history of science: Copernicus' 1543 "De
Reuolutionibus Orbium Cœlestium" and Galileo's 1632
"Dialogo di Galileo Galilei," accompanied by two planetary
views from Andreas Cellarius' "stellar" masterpiece,
"Harmonia Macrocosmica" (1661). The gallery is open from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and from noon to 5 p.m. on weekends. An
illustrated exhibition catalog will be on sale in the Department of
Rare Books and Special Collections.
July 20, 2010 – August 7, 2010
- Kenora, Ontario
Lake of
the Woods is filled with over 14,000 islands and has over 65,000
miles of shoreline to explore. One way of exploring the lake is
through the Lake of the Woods Museum's upcoming exhibit on maps. The
Finding Our Way
exhibit features many maps old and
new of Lake of the Woods. Maps will cover the whole lake area, which
touches not just Ontario but Manitoba and Minnesota as well. Early
explorer maps, summer camper location maps and geological maps are
all part of the exhibit including many more types.
July 23, 2010 - mid-August, 2010 –
Springfield, Illinois
The
Illinois State Library's Map Department, 300 South 2nd Street, has
created an exhibit entitled Maps
that Changed Illinois.
From early maps drawn by Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet to maps
of the first fort at Chicago, the exhibit highlights twelve major
turning points in Illinois history that changed the face of the
state. The exhibit also features the state's initial official road
map. The display, which is located on the second floor bridge between
the Circulation Desk and Reference, will run until at least
mid-August.
April 14, 2010 – August 14, 2010 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Maps can serve
as vehicles for direction or misdirection, clarification or
obfuscation. They can raise alarms, reinforce hopes and fears, or
simply interpret events so that they fit more snugly with
preconceived ideas. In the past century, cartographers have worked on
a range of ideological fronts to promote causes or rally compatriots
to pledge their allegiances to a military campaign, political
movement, or social struggle. Maps
with an Attitude: Cartographies of Propaganda and Persuasion
examines how maps have framed the
major conflicts of the 20th century--from World War I to the Bosnian
War. It focuses on how cartographers have used all of the design
elements in their tool box--color, perspective, imagery, symbolism,
and text--to prod their audiences to take sides. Exhibit can be seen
at The Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library, Map Gallery Hall.
May 28, 2010 - August 20, 2010 – Washington
The
Albert H. Small Documents Gallery, National Museum of American
History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue has an exhibit The
Cosmos in Miniature / The Remarkable Star Map of Simon De Witt.
Commercial star maps similar to the one De Witt made for himself sold
widely in the 19th century; they are still made today. Astronomy was
the primary science taught in the public schools before the Civil
War. Handheld star maps like De Witt’s became a popular way for
Americans to explore the mysteries of the skies above them. Several
star maps and astrolabes are on display.
October 18, 2009 - August 21, 2010 - Portland,
Maine
American Treasures celebrates the
reopening of the newly renovated and expanded Osher Map Library and
Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern
Maine, by simultaneously exploring the library's rich and varied
collections and its mission to make those collections accessible. The
exhibition presents a sampling of some of the library's remarkable
items from its focus on Maine and New England, the USA, and the
Americas (North and South). These items demonstrate how OML's
collections are incorporated into K-12 and undergraduate education,
public education through exhibitions, and scholarly research with
wide import. The result is a visually stunning show that reinforces
how maps offer such compelling insights into the past that anyone,
regardless of age or educational level, can enjoy and learn from them
- they are indeed a treasure.
July 10, 2010 - August 21, 2010 - Montivilliers, France
Voyage
urbain à travers les siècles [Urban Journeys through
the centuries] features a selection of manuscripts, maps and
plans representative of the history and of the urban evolution of the
city of Montivilliers. Exhibit is at Bibliothèque Condorcet,
50 rue Léon Gambetta.
May 15, 2010 - August 29, 2010 - Minneapolis, Minnesota
With
today's Global Positioning Systems, Google Earth and Yahoo! Maps,
it's hard to imagine living in a world in which your exact location
was a mystery. But a very rare map, Matteo Ricci and His Rare
World Map, now on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
provides a picture of a time of great exploration and discovery. The
map, made in 1602, was created by Italian-born Jesuit priest, Matteo
Ricci, who was stationed in China for thirty years. It is now known
to be the oldest surviving Chinese map to show the Americas. The map
was just recently acquired by the James Ford Bell Library at the
University of Minnesota. Ricci's world map is on display in the
Cargill Gallery of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2400 Third
Avenue South, accompanied by rare Chinese woodblock prints from an
illustrated Bible published by a colleague of Ricci, western maps,
and a select group of Ming dynasty objects.
July 5, 2010 – August 29, 2010 – Edinburgh,
Scotland
The Pont manuscript maps are one of Scotland’s
greatest historical and geographical treasures. Their author, Timothy
Pont, was the second son of a prominent churchman, and he became
minister for the parish of Dunnet in Caithness from 1601. For motives
that are still debated, Pont undertook the first comprehensive survey
of Scotland, sometime after his graduation from St Andrews in 1583,
and before his death, sometime before 1614. His maps and texts
provide a magnificent cartographic delineation of late 16th century
Scotland, her regions and their distinctive features. Pont’s
work formed the substantial basis for the first Atlas of Scotland,
Joan Blaeu’s Theatrum orbis terrarum sive atlas novus (Vol. V)
of 1654. This exhibition will display a changing selection of Pont
manuscript maps. National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge,
Edinburgh, Scotland - Monday to Friday: 10.00-20.00; Saturday:
10.00-17.00; Sunday: 14.00-17.00
June 1, 2010 – August 31, 2010 – East Lansing,
Michigan
Early
Mapping of Michigan and the Great Lakes, 1744-1862 displays
sixteen original antique maps from the Michigan State University Map
Library collection. They show the evolution of British, French,
Italian, and US understanding of midwest geography and shows the
development of forts, villages, counties, and roads. Exhibit
is on 4 West, Main Library.
July 19, 2010 – August 31, 2010 – London
Jonathan
Potter is exhibiting a selection of antique maps highlighting the
history of map making at National Geographic's London store, 83-97
Regent Street.
August 1-31, 2010 - Coronado, California
The Changing
Landscape of San Diego is an exhibit of maps, photographs, books,
and documents that show the many changes in the San Diego region
since 1849. It can be seen at Coronado Public Library - Exhibit
Gallery, 640 Orange Avenue.
August 2010 - September 2, 2010 - Fort Collins,
Colorado
Colorado: Early Days, an exhibit that looks at
the history of our state through documents, photos, maps and more, is
on display at Colorado State University's Morgan Library, second
floor, room 202. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays.
June 10. 2010 – September 4, 2010 – Washington
Map
aficionados, particularly for English mapping and geographical
perspectives, must not miss Lost
at Sea, the Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550-1750 in
the Great Hall at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 E. Capitol
Street SE. Featured cartographic treasures include: W. J. Blaeu's
octavo “Light of navigation,” 1622, with its illustration
of the master of navigation and his students surrounded by tools of
the trade, illustrating the crowded social setting this training
involved. A quarter quadrant with nocturnal, ca. 1650, made of
boxwood and brass, used to determine time before and after midnight.
W.J. Blaeu's colorful map, “America Nova Tabula,” rev.
1642, and his ca. 8" globes, terrestrial and celestial, 1602. A
"please touch" segment involves the leather, gold stamped
binding for a Knapton “Atlas Commercialis” of 1728. A
John Senex 1712 map of the world. A facsimile title page from The
Mariner's Mirror, Anthony Ashley's translation, featuring astrolabes,
lead lines, quadrants, etc. A 17th century Valencia Astrolabe
facsimile. “Purchas his Pilgrimes,” 1625, open to the
Elstracke/Briggs map of North America. Martin Cortes' “The Arte
of Navigation,” London, 1596, translated by Richard Eden.
July 9, 2010 – September 4, 2010 – St. Cloud,
Minnesota
Back in 1850 when
a map was created of the “Organized Counties of Minnesota,”
it showed that almost all the state’s white settlers lived in
Washington, Ramsey and Benton Counties. Not a highway to be found.
You can see a reproduction of that map and of 22 other maps in
Minnesota On The Map,
a display at St. Cloud Public Library, 1300 W. St. Germain St. The
focus of the early maps is on the waterways by which people traveled
the state. The earliest, a 1683 map by Father Louis Hennepin, is of
the Americas, including the Mississippi and St. Anthony Falls, which
he was the first white person to see. A map produced just a few years
later by the Venetian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli zooms in on
North America, Canada and the Great Lakes. The early maps
particularly show the influence of American Indians in determining
place names.
June 1, 2010 - September 6, 2010 – Amsterdam
The
Rijksmuseum will be hosting Amsterdam’s canal belt. The
expansion of Amsterdam in the Golden Age - an exhibition of
paintings, prints and drawings showing the spectacular expansion of
17th-century Amsterdam. A number of maps from the Rijksmuseum’s
own collection charting the expansion agreed on in 1662 will also be
on display. Included is a number of exquisite maps of the canal belt.
Daniel Stalpaert's map from 1662 is printed on six loose sheets, and
these maps offer a broad overview of the city’s expansion.
Central to the exhibition are six views by Gerrit Berckheyde
depicting the Gouden Bocht (Golden Bend) on the Herengracht Canal
which was the richest part of the new city.
September 1-6, 2010 – Lancaster, New Hampshire
Original
Leavitt’s Maps with Views of the White Mountains New
Hampshire, published by Franklin Leavitt of Lancaster, NH between
1852 and 1888, along with broadsides and Leavitt documents including
personal notebooks and receipts will be on display at the 2010
Lancaster Fair. This is a one-time opportunity sponsored jointly by
Leavitt map enthusiasts across New England and the Lancaster NH
Historical Society, bringing together in one place for viewing by the
general public, all seven of Leavitt’s published White
Mountains maps and as much other material as possible. Franklin
Leavitt was born in or near Lancaster NH in 1824 and grew up on a
farm to the east, near Kilkenny. At the age of 12 he took employment
with Thomas J. Crawford at the “Notch House” at the
northern entrance of the notch. He worked there until 1848 helping
Thomas build the first bridle path to the summit of Mt. Washington.
In 1851 he helped build the path on the eastern side, which later
became the Carriage Road and is now known as the Auto Road. In the
winter of 1851, with the railroad from Portland to Gorham almost
complete, he surmised that there would soon be enough tourists to
create a market for a unique map. A map depicting the region, and
showing notable landmarks, routes, hotels, etc., and would be kept as
a memento of his guide service. Leavitt drew his map, such as it was,
and took it to Boston's leading Lithographer, John Bufford, to have
it engraved. Leavitt’s first map was printed on March 16, 1852
and became what is now considered to be the first map showing the
Presidential Range. His maps lacked any attempt at scale or accuracy,
but they depict figures in local lore and legend, such as the Willeys
running from the slide, Col. Whipple riding a moose, and Crawford
killing a bear. Frank went on to publish four more White Mountain
maps under his name over the next 27 years. He retired from mapmaking
after he designed the 1881 map and selling the rights and plate to
his son, Victor. Due to engraving delays, the publication date was
changed to 1882 and on November 26, 1881, the engraver shipped the
plate and 400 impressions of the map to Victor in Lancaster. Seven
years later, Victor published a second state of the map with the
title date changed to 1888, but the copyright remained 1881.
April 30, 2010 - September 19, 2010 - London
An
exhibition at the British Library, Magnificent Maps: Power,
Propaganda and Art, which will be accompanied by a book, will
display some of the masterpieces of cartography from the middle ages
to the present day, several of which have never been shown before. It
will try to recreate the settings for which the maps were originally
intended and thereby demonstrate the important role that maps played
as works of art and as instruments of propaganda in the broader
culture of their times. Visitors will be shown rooms from a palace,
the home of a merchant/landowner, a class-room and a secretary of
state's office. Nor will the open-air display of maps and globes be
ignored. While the emphasis will be on the early modern period in
Europe, there will be exhibits from throughout the world, which will
extend from medieval times to the modern day including contemporary
works by Grayson Perry and Stephen Walters'. Some of the world's
greatest cartographic treasures will be included, such as Jacopo de
Barbari's map of Venice, Georg Marcgraf's map of Brazil, the
thirteenth century Psalter map, Ortelius's eight-sheet world map and
Thomas Holme's wall map of Pennsylvania.
July 7, 2010 – September 25, 2010 - Newark, New
Jersey
While the U.S. Census Bureau tallies the results of the
23rd census, the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street, is
holding an exhibit to provide insight into the history and importance
of the nation’s decennial count. America by the Numbers: A
Look at the Census Bureau includes historical documents, maps,
charts, photographs and facts relating to the census.
March 29, 2010 – September 26, 2010 - Whittington,
Illinois
To
commemorate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the
Illinois State Museum at Rend Lake presents an original exhibition,
From Humble Beginnings, Lincoln’s Illinois 1830-1861.
Through the objects and stories of the people who lived here, the
exhibition presents a perspective of the Illinois Lincoln found when
he entered the state in 1830. Featured in the exhibition are
historical maps, household furnishings, agricultural tools, rifles
and pistols, archaeological artifacts from New Philadelphia and
Southern Illinois tavern sites and audio presentations of pioneers’
letters. A dynamic map of Illinois from the 1813 to 1861 illustrates
how improved transportation impacted the settlement of Illinois. The
Illinois State Museum Southern Illinois Art Gallery is at the
Southern Illinois Art and Artisans Center, 14967 Gun Creek Trail, six
miles north of Benton. Take Exit 77 from Interstate 57 and follow the
signs. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and admission is free. For
information, call 618-629-2220.
August 7, 2010 - September 26, 2010 - Staunton, Virginia
The
R.R. Smith Center for History & Art, 20 S. New Street, will have
an exhibit featuring hand-drawn historic maps. Titled Jefferson’s
Wine Travels, the exhibit will feature items from the 1500s
through 1700s. More than 40 maps will be on display. One gallery will
focus on wine-related maps. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays.
August 10, 2010 - September 2010 - Centerville, Ohio
Maps
of Centerville’s past and present are currently on display
at the Centerville Arts Commission Gallery at the Police Department
until the beginning of September. The Police Department is located at
155 W. Spring Valley Road. The Art Gallery is staffed 24-hours per
day and exhibits may be viewed anytime, day or night. All exhibits
are free and open to the public. Many of the maps are from the City’s
collection; although the Centerville-Washington Historical Society
and the Washington-Centerville Public Library also contributed maps
to the exhibit. The exhibit is based on three themes; aerial,
historic, and modern. The collection features historical maps from
the 1800s and even an aerial photo of 1920 downtown Centerville.
July 2, 2010 – October 17, 2010 –
Portsmouth
Mapping
Portsmouth's Tudor Past is a temporary exhibition of Tudor
mapping being held at The Mary Rose Museum, College Road. The
exhibition includes a number of maps on loan from The British
Library, the UK Hydrographic Office and the Admiralty Library, such
as a map from 1545, "the earliest scale map of an English town
and one of the earliest in Europe".
October 13-27, 2010 – Winnipeg
The
Archives of Manitoba is offering three free noon-hour tours of an
exhibit of historic and rare Manitoba maps. The tours will take place
on Wednesdays October 13, 20, and 27 at 12:30 in the archives
building foyer at 200 Vaughan St. Visitors are also able to go on a
self-guided tour any time between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday. Included in the exhibit are reproductions of 10 historic maps
created in the last two centuries including:
• a map by Peter
Fidler, Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor and cartographer from
1795 to 1812, who based many of his maps on sketches and descriptions
from Aboriginal guides;
• a map that shows the shift in
provincial boundaries from the 1870s to 1912;
• a map by
surveyor William Kempt, who was hired by the Hudson’s Bay
Company in 1824 to map an improved water route from York Factory to
the Red River Settlement; and
• a map created by George
Taylor, Jr., a Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor, whose maps
defined land boundaries that still form the basis for Winnipeg’s
legal land descriptions.
The Archives of Manitoba are located at
200 Vaughan St. People interested in attending the free guided tours
can call 204-945-7586 to register.
April 23, 2010 - October 30, 2010 – Philadelphia
The
American Philosophical Society, 104 South Fifth Street, presents its
annual exhibit A Selection of Items from the American
Philosophical Society Library’s Treasures and Map Collection.
Included among this year’s selections is a draft of the
Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin’s annotated copy
of the Articles of Confederation, copies of Thomas Paine’s
Common Sense and Rights of Man, as well as British political cartoons
lampooning Paine and his politics. Also included are two of the
original journals of Lewis and Clark. Displayed along with the
Treasures are selections from the Society’s map collection.
Consisting of over 2,700 printed and manuscript maps and nearly 150
atlases and globes, the collection’s origins can be traced all
the way back to the Society’s founder, Benjamin Franklin, who
possessed a keen interest in maps and mapmaking. The oldest map in
the collection dates to the late 16th Century, while the newest maps
date to the last decades of the 20th Century. The maps displayed in
the exhibit are examples of the two largest portions of the map
collection, maps of North America, and of Pennsylvania. Printed over
a time span of one hundred and thirty-six years, the maps chronicle
the growth of our city, state and nation, as they transformed into
the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and United States that we know today.
October 21-30, 2010 – Tbilisi
A display Old
Tbilisi Maps at The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia
will allow visitors to have the opportunity to take a look at
Tbilisi’s dynamic development between the 19th and 20th
centuries. Dating from 1845, the original maps preserved at the
Library funds will see the daylight and the replicas of three
exceptional maps will be exhibited for evaluation. “It is a
gift from the Tbilisi government to the admirers of history”
according to the programme of the exhibition.
August 7, 2010 - October 31, 2010 – Macao
The
Master From the West: An Exhibition Commemorating the 400th
Anniversary of the Passing of Matteo Ricci marks the Jesuit’s
death by celebrating his remarkable life. Initiated by the Marche
region of Italy, where Ricci was born in the hillside town of
Macerata in 1552, the exhibition has been held in Beijing, Shanghai
and Nanjing. It opened at the Macao Museum of Art on Aug. 7 - the day
Ricci first landed there, then a Portuguese colony, 428 years ago.
The exhibition is intended to reconstruct the first encounter between
the Chinese and European civilizations, at the end of the Ming
dynasty, according to its curator, Filippo Mignini. The core of the
show, however, are two sections that, in Mr. Mignini’s words,
“show the meaning and the importance of the first encounter
between Chinese and European culture.” “The Resplendent
Era” explores the vibrant, and closely intertwined, religious
and intellectual world of late Renaissance Europe. It includes
paintings by Titian and Raphael, religious tapestries, architectural
models and etchings, scientific instruments - Ricci often made
sundials, astrolabes and celestial globes to present as gifts to his
Chinese friends - and a beautiful selection of rare, ancient atlases
and books critical to Ricci’s education. Among them are works
by Christopher Clavius, the famed German mathematician and friend of
Galileo who was Ricci’s teacher at the Roman College. The
second section, “Matteo Ricci’s Missionary Trip to
China,” starts with Ricci’s arrival in Macao in 1582, a
time when Chinese converts to Catholicism were obliged to wear
Western clothes, speak Portuguese and abandon their culture. Perhaps
unsurprisingly, European priests were not welcomed in China. Among
the highlights of this section, and the show, are a 1603 edition of
the annotated world maps Ricci produced for Chinese friends, scholars
and the Wan Li emperor. The 203-by-58-centimeter map, about 80 by 23
inches, which is in the collection of the Liaoning Provincial Museum,
is on loan for the first time and was not included in the earlier
shows. Divided into eight panels, it includes a drawing of the nine
concentric spheres of the universe as conceived by Ptolemy.
September 11, 2010 - October 31, 2010 –
Philippines
Limbag: Early Impressions of the Philippines,
an exhibit featuring images of colonial Philippines produced from the
1700s to the 1900s is the fourth in a series of exhibitions created
by the Metropolitan Museum of Manila aimed at promoting art and
culture to a wider audience. All the 19 engraved antiquarian maps and
29 prints are from the private collection of Federico Pascual. Apart
from early maps of Asia by French, English, and American
cartographers, varying maps of the Philippines are also included. The
collection will also give mall goers a rare glimpse of Philippine
history through maps: regional maps made by Augustinian Recollect
friars that chart their parishes and missions in different parts of
the country, a political map of Luzon during the Spanish period, and
four maps from the famous Atlas de Filipinas 1889, which was made by
an all-Filipino team of draftsmen under the leadership of Jesuit
priest Fr. Jose Algue at the Observatorio de Manila. Exhibit can be
seen:
September 11-23 at the Atrium of SM Mall of Asia
in Pasay City.
September 24-October 11 at the SM
Megamall Atrium in Mandaluyong City.
October 12-31 at
The Block-SM City North EDSA in Quezon City.
May 1, 2010 - November 1, 2010- Deerfield,
Massachusetts
Changes
on the Horizon is an exhibition at Memorial Hall Museum, 8
Memorial St. On display are paintings, prints, maps, stereographs,
and postcards depicting Franklin County’s ever-changing
landscape. Looking at the period from about 1850 to 1950, we see how
industrialization (Russell Cutlery, Shelburne Falls Works, New Home
Sewing Machine), transportation (horse and buggies, railroads,
trolleys, automobiles), roadways and bridges transformed the rural
landscape. The exhibition also includes 19th-century bird's-eye views
of Orange, Shelburne Falls, Greenfield and several factories. The
lithographs, along with maps of the same era, celebrated commerce and
industry by highlighting factories, hotels, banks and other signs of
prosperity. Memorial Hall Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from
11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed Mondays.
October 1, 2010 – November 5, 2010 - Tecate, Baja
California, Mexico
Changing
Boundaries, an exhibit
of antique maps of the U.S.-Mexico frontier, features 40 maps
on exhibit for the first time in Mexico. Maps tell stories. Learn how
the US-Mexico border evolved over the last four centuries in this
exhibit of beautiful antique maps. Original maps dated as early at
1600 show the claims, counter claims, conquests and discoveries that
resulted in the current border line. See proof that California is an
island and learn how the current US/Mexico border line came to be
where it is today. The exhibit will be available for viewing at CAREM
Library and Museum Complex located at CECUTEC, Calle Tláloc
no. 400. It will be open Monday through Friday 10-4 or by
appointment.
September 15, 2010 - November 10, 2010 –
Minneapolis
Selections
from the Bell Library's extensive collection on Ming China will form
the basis for the exhibition Matteo Ricci and the Jesuits in
China. Special feature: the 1602 world map of Matteo Ricci and
Zhong Wentao, a Mandarin scholar who collaborated with the Jesuit
missionary to bring this incredibly rare map into being. The T.R.
Anderson Gallery is located at the entrance to the James Ford Bell
Library, Suite 472 on the 4th floor of Wilson Library, 309 19th Ave.
SE. Exhibits are on view Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.;
evenings and weekends by appointment. The gallery is closed for all
University of Minnesota holidays. For more information, contact us at
612-624-1528.
June 18, 2010 – November 14, 2010 – Edinburgh,
Scotland
The main National Library of Scotland summer
exhibition, A swing through time, focuses on the history of
golf in Scotland. However, it does also feature several maps!
Original items on display include John Geddie's bird's-eye view of St
Andrews in the 1580s, maps of Gleneagles and environs in the 1820s,
as well as an early 20th century photograph and fixture cards from
John Bartholomew & Co's staff Golf Club.
National Library of
Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland - Monday to Friday:
10.00-20.00; Saturday: 10.00-17.00; Sunday: 14.00-17.00
August 27, 2010 - December 18, 2010 – Bogotá,
Colombia
There is a close relationship between the history of
maps and history of the nations they represent. Both are the result
of a long processes of development, beyond the geographical, of
cultural and political processes that shaped the identity of these
nations. In celebration of the bicentennial of Columbia's
independence, the Bank of the Republic will present the exhibition
Ensamblando la Nación. Cartografía y política
en la historia de Colombia [Joining the Nation. Cartography and
Politics in the history of Colombia]; open on floors 1 and 2 of
the Casa de Moneda, Banco de la República, Calle 11 # 4 - 14,
La Candelaria. The exhibit features original photographs and the
first maps of the New World in the sixteenth century to nineteenth
century national maps. Additional information from the exhibit
co-curator Sebastián Díaz.
September 12, 2010 – December 26, 2010 – Lyndhurst,
New Jersey
The
Lyndhurst Historical Society’s Little Red Schoolhouse, corner
of Fern and Riverside Avenues, now has on display its latest exhibit,
Finding Our Way and Finding Our Place, which uses old maps,
globes and even blueprints to tell the story of local history and the
importance maps play in history itself. The exhibit doesn't just
cover Lyndhurst, it covers the world and state of New Jersey as well,
exhibiting an array of atlases, maps and four different world globes
of the ever-evolving planet Earth. The Schoolhouse is open on the 2nd
and 4th Sunday of every month from 2:00 - 4:00 pm. Call 201-804-2513
for more information.
October 16, 2010 – December 30, 2010 – Lynchburg,
Virginia
A new
exhibit is entitled, The World in Your Hands: Models of Earth and
Space from the 15th Century to Today. It is presented by the
American Globe Preservation Society at 825 Main Street, in downtown
Lynchburg. For more information call 434-610-5447 or 434-847-4788.
June 30, 2010 – December 2010
– Baton Rouge, Louisiana
West
Florida: From Colonial Pawn to Independent Republic and Ultimate
Incorporation into the United States can be seen at CARTE Museum.
The show will feature over thirty (mostly framed) original maps
dating from 1755 to 1821 portraying the history of West Florida. This
show has been developed in anticipation of the bicentennial of the
Independent State of West Florida which was established September 23,
1810, when local residents overthrew Spanish rule. After only 35 days
of independence, the territory was annexed to the United States and
forceably occupied by U.S. troops in December, 1810. The museum is
located at 2347 Christian Street. Hours of operation are Wednesdays
from 9 AM to 5 PM and by appointment. Phone: 225 773-1386 or
387-6119. Additional information from Dave Morgan.
January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 – Savannah
Maps
depicting North America, Great Britain and the world are on view in
the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Kiah
Hall, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Mapping the Past: Antique
Cartography from the Newton Collection is
displayed in three map galleries. Highlights include 1597 maps
from the earliest atlas of the Americas, 1776 military maps, and
other 17th- and 19th-century maps, some of them hand-colored.
Cartographers include Wytfliet, Hondius, Monath, Lotter, d'Anville,
Faden, Lodge, Cary and Wyld.
August 16, 2010- December 31, 2010 - Hanoi
To
commemorate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi, the
National Archives Centre I, No. 18, Trung Yen 1 Street, Cau Giay
District, will organize an exhibition to display documents themed
Urban planning and administrative boundaries of Hanoi in the
period 1873-1954. The exhibition introduces 68 ancient maps of
ancient Hanoi and important documents to help visitors learn about
Hanoi through the historical periods. There are some original maps on
cloth which are considered sources of precious documents and have
great historical value.
September 15, 2010 - December 31, 2010 - Portland,
Maine
An exhibition titled Envisioning the World: The
First Printed Maps, 1472-1700 can be seen at Osher Map Library,
University of Southern Maine. The library is located at the corner of
Forest Avenue and Bedford Street. The exhibition will feature
approximately 30 rare world maps drawn from the collection of Henry
Wendt, and will explore the major trends in intellectual history from
the early Renaissance through the scientific era of the
Enlightenment. Through the language of cartography, the maps in the
exhibition illustrate the way in which scientists, mathematicians,
explorers and cartographers came to grips with the shape, size and
nature of the Earth as a whole and its place in the universe.
Highlighted in the exhibition are the important contributions to this
evolving cosmography of: Ptolemy (c. 90-168 ); Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473-1543); Galileo Galilei (1564-1642); Johannes Kepler
(1571-1630); and Edmond Halley (1656-1742). Works featured in the
exhibition include: the first printed map (1472), a schematic concept
of the continents in the form of a "T" encircled by an "O"
of ocean; the first printed road map (1598), showing the cursus
publicus, the postal system of the Roman Empire, in eight sections
totaling 14 linear feet; highly decorative exemplars from the golden
age of Dutch mapmaking (17th century); and elaborate hand-colored
celestial views (1700), representing the constellations with figures
from Greek mythology. The library is open from 1-4 pm on Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday.
October 2, 2010 - December 31, 2010 - Le Havre, France
Du
Havre...au-delà des mers. Explorateurs, voyageurs et
négociants (XVIe - XXe siècles) [From Le Havre beyond
the seas. Explorers, travellers and traders (16th-20th c.] - From
Verrazano to Jean Charcot, ten itineraries of travellers who started
from Le Havre to discover, explore and trade across the oceans;
travel through manuscripts, maps, plans and rare documents. Guided
tours and animations. Bibliotheque Armand Salacrou, 17 rue Jules
Lecesne.