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Few years until early 2012 - Bucharest
The
Muzeul National al Hartilor si Cartii Vechi [National Museum of Maps
and Old Books], Strada Londra nr. 39, is a unique presence in the
Romanian museum landscape. Its existence is due to the map-drawing
collection donated with generosity by the former Prime Minister and
his wife, Adrian and Daniela Nastase, who are the founders of this
culture house. Other maps came from gifts received by former
President Ion Iliescu and from the collections of some important
commercial banks. The entire collection totals more than 800 maps and
engravings, drawings, lithographs etc. as well as a few specific
objects to the museum theme; and is displayed in 16 rooms which
combine the scientific part with the artistic one.
September 30, 2011 - January 8, 2012 – Gent
In
the early twelfth century Lambert, Canon of Saint-Omer (now in French
Flanders), compiled an encyclopaedia of the knowledge of his
predecessors. In that book entitled Liber Floridus he
describes the world and the cosmos, and man’s life within that
greater whole. His own contribution was mainly in the fields of
cosmography, geography and cartography. Lambert illustrated his
findings with colourful miniatures which help make this medieval
encyclopaedia a truly superb piece of work. He was drawing maps of
the world four centuries before cartography became a discipline in
its own right. A world-famous manuscript, the Liber Floridus
is recognized by the Flemish Community as a masterpiece. It derives
from St Bavo’s Abbey in Ghent and is now part of Ghent
University Library’s collection. In the exhibition, Liber
Floridus. Cartography around 1100, at STAM - Ghent City Museum,
Godshuizenlaan 2, scientific insights into this mediaeval masterpiece
take the form of a fascinating story. Thanks to precious illuminated
manuscripts from the late-eighth to the twelfth centuries loaned by
institutions in Belgium and abroad, the Liber Floridus can be
shown alongside its sources and works by Lambert’s
contemporaries.
December 9, 2011 - January 15, 2012 - Hong Kong
Precious
ancient rare books and special collections from the National
Library of China, which has the world's largest collection of Chinese
documents, will be on display at the Exhibition Gallery of the Hong
Kong Central Library, 66 Causeway Road, Causeway Bay. The 42 exhibits
on display are some of the precious treasures in the National Library
of China's vast holdings. They consist of "shanben" (rare
books), Dunhuang documents, ancient maps and atlases, epigraphical
and pictorial rubbings and texts and illustrations from China's
ethnic minorities, and feature a wide spectrum of disciplines ranging
from religion, literature, geography and medicine to art and
technology of ancient China. Ancient Chinese cartography has a long
history. The earliest mention of a Chinese city map dates back to the
11th century BC during the early years of the Western Zhou dynasty.
In ancient China, maps functioned as the territorial emblems of a
state and provided concrete proof of territorial rights.
January 6-31, 2012 - Casper, Wyoming
The National
Historic Trails Interpretive Center, 1501 North Poplar Street, is
presenting a temporary exhibit on historic maps of the United States,
United States territories in the west, and the state of Wyoming. The
Jack Rosenthal map collection will be displayed in the Edna
Kennell Heritage Gallery. The exhibit includes 37 original maps that
date from 1853 to 1912. The collection is on loan from the Nicolaysen
Art Museum in Casper. For more information, contact the Center at
(307) 261-7780.
January 20-31, 2012 – Hanoi
The city of Ha Noi
evolved quickly from the period of French colonisation, from an
oriental-style urban centre to a modern city. Two French historians
and doctors, Philippe Le Failler and Olivier Tessier from the Ha
Noi-based French school of the Far East (Le Ecole Francaise
d'Extreme-orient), selected old photos, maps, and drawings of Ha Noi
from 1873-1945 which are now on display at a new exhibition in the
capital. The exhibition entitled Mot So Hinh Anh Tieu Bieu Ve Ha
Noi Giai Doan 1873-1945 [Ha Noi Views and Prospects for the Period
1873-1945] is held at the Thang Long-Ha Noi Heritage preservation
Centre, No 9 Hoang Dieu Street. The exhibition features more than 80
panels of photos, documents, and drawings of Ha Noi from 1873, when
French forces started to occupy the city, to the August 1945
Revolution and the country's independence.
October 12, 2011 - February 10, 2012 - Tempe, Arizona
Changing
Boundaries: Historic Maps of the U.S.-Mexico Border is an exhibit
of maps that illustrate how the present U.S.-Mexico border region has
evolved over the past four centuries. It will be on display at
Arizona State University, School of Transborder Studies, 1120 S. Cady
Mall. The event is free and open to the public. The maps on display
are from the collection of Simon Burrow, who curates the exhibit.
Burrow has been acquiring items in his collection from map and used
book dealers around the world over a span of 25 years. The maps,
which date as early as 1597, show the explorations, claims, counter
claims and conquests that resulted in the current borderline. There
are examples of how California was depicted as an island populated by
Amazons and maps that show where ancient and mythical cities were
thought to be, as well as treasure maps that would allegedly lead to
Cibola – the Seven Cities of Gold. The exhibit moves to
"Fronteras Cambiantes" - CECUT, Tijuana Cultural Center
from February 24, 2012 - May 30, 2012.
October 3, 2011 - February 15, 2012 - Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Canals
represent major achievements of civil engineering, but they often
originated in schemes that were initially derided as the quixotic
visions of impractical dreamers. In many cases, the major proponents
of canals were motivated as much by utilitarian concerns as by an
idealistic quest to dissolve barriers between different regions,
cultures, and bodies of water. Visions and Revisions: The
Cartographic Construction of Canals explores the cartographic
trail left by some of the most ambitious of these projects, including
China’s Grand Canal, the Erie Canal, the Suez Canal, and the
Panama Canal. It will examine the physical, political, and
ideological obstacles that had to be overcome before these visions
could be realized. In many cases, the initial plans were drastically
revised, new solutions were improvised, or the entire enterprise was
postponed for another generation of dreamers. Exhibit is in Map
Gallery Hall, Pusey Library, Harvard University. For further
information, contact Joseph Garver at 617-496-3670.
September 10, 2011 - February 17, 2012 - Birmingham,
Alabama
Mapping Birmingham charts the growth –
and aspirations behind that growth – of Birmingham from its
founding to present day. The exhibition can be seen at Vulcan Park
and Museum, 1701 Valley View Drive. The exhibition’s artifacts,
maps of the city depicting key points in its history, offer glimpses
into Birmingham’s past and its vision for the future. Maps come
from Birmingham Public Library archives depict the development of the
communities of Mountain Brook and Corey. Frederick Law Olmsted’s
vision of a unified park system for Birmingham is depicted through a
reproduction of his groundbreaking 1925 study. Visitors also
encounter the latest plans for the Birmingham metro area. Vulcan Park
and Museum collaborated with a host of local architecture firms and
architecturally minded groups to procure designs for Park Place,
SoHo, and Mt. Laurel, and to offer glimpses of yet-to-be-realized
plans for Birmingham’s system of parks and neighborhoods, and
for revitalized historic districts.
January 18, 2012 - February 17, 2012 – Paris
La
France en relief - From Louis XIV to Napoléon III can be
seen at the Grand Palais, Nef du Grand Palais, Entrée
principale, Avenue Winston-Churchill. Relief maps - models of
fortified tows – were produced for military purposes from the
reign of Louis XIV to the end of 19th century. Theses objects, of an
incredible quality and size, shed light on a range of historical
phenomena, including the development and setting of borders, siege
warfare and fortifications, map-making, and the transformation of the
town planning and the landscape.
December 3, 2011 - February 19, 2012 - Sydney
A new
exhibition of historic charts at the State Library of NSW revisits
how explorers put Antarctica on the map. On the 6 February 1772,
Captain James Cook sat down to plan his second voyage south. He had
been commissioned by Britain's Royal Society to discover the vast,
largely mysterious landmass thought to exist at the bottom of the
world. He sketched a rough map of the Southern Hemisphere and marked
the routes sailed by others before him - French explorer Louis
Antoine de Bougainville, who circumnavigated the globe in 1766-69,
and Abel Tasman, who skirted Australia's southern shores more than
100 years earlier. Then he marked in yellow ink the route he would
take. This voyage would prove the mysterious 'Terra Incognita' was
neither as big nor as habitable as previously thought. Cook's chart
is one of 120 rare maps on display at the State Library of NSW in
Sydney to mark the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic
Expedition. The exhibition Finding Antarctica: Mapping the Last
Continent tells the story of the gradual discovery, exploration
and charting of this unknown region from the 15th century through to
the present day.
January 24, 2012 - February 24, 2012 - Mississauga,
Ontario
Presented in partnership with the Peel Heritage
Complex, Heritage Mississauga, 1921 Dundas St. W., is delighted to
host the A Call to Arms: The War of 1812 & Historic
Mississauga traveling exhibit from the Archives of Ontario. The
Archives of Ontario’s War of 1812 traveling exhibit sheds light
on formative events in the history of Ontario. The War of 1812 had
long-term effects on the economic, social and political life of the
province. This exhibit is a history resource that showcases some of
the personalities and locations that played a role in the war, and
explores the events of that conflict using the correspondence and
diaries of those who lived it. Their words are illustrated with
artwork, maps and photographs from the holdings of the Archives, many
being made widely available for the first time. This free exhibit is
open from Tuesday to Friday, 9am-5pm, and 8pm on most Tuesdays. For
more information, please contact Heritage Mississauga at 905-828-8411
ext.29.
December 2, 2010 - February 25, 2012 – Cracow
The
Cracow Saltworks Museum Wieliczka has an exhibition Mining
Cartography. The exhibition introduces the fascinating world of
historic cartography including the presentation of valuable and
unique maps of Martin Germanus, engraved by William Hondius in 1645;
and the oldest county plan Bochnia of 1746. In contrast, there is a
display of contemporary maps developed and plotted using computer
techniques. Additionally, there are plans of coal mines, displays of
surveying equipment, and instruments used to draw maps.
October 1, 2011 - March 9, 2012 – Auckland
You
Are Here: Mapping Auckland shows Auckland as a city that has been
planned, designed and drawn many times over. See maps from the rich,
vast collection in Auckland Museum’s library and plot your own
story of the city on the interactive map. What did Auckland look like
on paper 70 or even 170 years ago? How did early Aucklanders depict
the space around them? And what stories do these maps have to tell?
Created by Auckland Museum, The University of Auckland and Unitec,
this exhibition will give you a new perspective on your city. Now
open in the Auckland Museum, Parnell, Pictorial Gallery (2nd floor);
Open daily, 10am – 5pm.
February 27, 2012 - March 23, 2012 –
Manchester
Manchester
was a stone's throw away from a brave new world of helipads,
boulevards, tunnels and moving pavements, according to unrealised
plans unearthed by researchers at The University of Manchester and
Manchester School of Architecture. A remarkable collection of
architects' drawings, maps and other exhibits - many of which have
never before been seen by the public - will go on show at a special
exhibition. Curated by Dr Martin Dodge and Richard Brook, it is It
called Infra_MANC. The urban motorway, known as the Mancunian
Way and completed in 1967, was originally part of 1945 plans for four
ring roads and an array of radial 'boulevards'. The plans would have
wiped out large parts of the Victorian city and transformed it into
an unrecognisable landscape of highways in the sky. Infra_MANC
will take place at CUBE and the RIBA Hub, 113-115 Portland Street.
January 6, 2012 - March 28, 2012 - Tucson, Arizona
A new
exhibit, Mapping Arizona: From Mexican Territory to U.S. State,
offers a visual illustration of Arizona’s path to statehood as
documented through historical maps of the region. The exhibit, on
display in the University of Arizona Main Library, 1510 E. University
Blvd, is one of several exhibits, lectures and events hosted by the
University Libraries in celebration of the state’s Centennial.
In addition to an array of historical maps, “Mapping Arizona”
also includes books and unique documents selected from Special
Collections extensive holdings. These additional materials offer
insight into the stories that accompany the lines, boundaries, and
borders within the maps.
October 22, 2011 – March 30, 2012 - Topeka, Kansas
The
Great Overland station, 701 N. Kansas Avenue, was once an active rail
station, but since 2004 the 80 year old structure has served as a
museum dedicated to railroad heritage. The People's Kind of
Railroad: The Santa Fe, the City, the State, and the Nation will
feature over 80 photographs, as well as a wide variety of maps,
pictures and artifacts.
February 29, 2012 - March 31, 2012 - South Salem, New York
A
new exhibit at the Lewisboro Library, 15 Main Street, features five
historical maps of Lewisboro and its neighbors. The maps, on public
display for the first time, are all part of the town historian's
collection. A sixth map, given to the town by Robert Treadway of
North Salem, portrays the origins of the boundary lines of our two
towns and was researched and drawn by Mr. Treadway for the North
Salem Historical Society. He presented Lewisboro with a copy of his
project. This map is on loan from the town clerk's office. The maps
will be on display in the library's magazine room and have been hung
so that the viewer should be able to get a close look at our town's
changes over the last two centuries, from 1829 to 1906.
January 27, 2012 - March 2012 - Minsk, Belarus
The
Nesvizh open-air museum is hosting a map exhibition Belarus: base
maps of the 16th-17th centuries. The event is held as part of the
national campaign “Nesvizh is Belarus’ 2012 capital of
culture”. Originals and digital copies are presented at the
exposition. The whole collection includes 15 maps but the most
interesting of them is a map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of 1613.
This is the first large-scale map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania,
the so called Radziwill’s map. One of the richest barons of the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania Nicholas Christopher Radziwill (Sirotka) was
the initiator of its creation. The map was created in Nesvizh at the
end of the 16th century - beginning of the 17th century. The full
version of the map consists of two parts: a map of the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania itself and a map of the lower reach of the Dnepr with its
rifts. All in all, 1,039 settlements are illustrated on the map,
including 544 settlements in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, of which
342 on the territory of Belarus. All the names are in Latin, many of
them provide historical and other data about settlements, etc. The
Radziwill’s map became an important step in the development of
the European cartography and was the most popular source of
information about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the European
cartography during two centuries.
January 17, 2012 – April 8, 2012 – Evanston,
Illinois
The Mary and
Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, presents Prints
and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe an exhibition
that examines how celebrated Northern Renaissance artists contributed
to the scientific discoveries of the 16th century. This exhibition
and the accompanying catalogue offer a new perspective on the
collaboration between artists and scientists: the project challenges
the perception of artists as illustrators in the service of
scientists, and examines how their printmaking skills were useful to
scientists in their investigations. Artists’ early printed
images served as effective research tools, not only functioning as
descriptive illustrations, but also operating as active agents in the
creation and dissemination of knowledge. Taking into consideration
prints, books, maps, and such scientific instruments as sundials,
globes, astrolabes, and armillary spheres, this project looks at
relationships between their producers and their production, as well
as between the objects themselves. Previously this exhibit was at the
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum.
February 10, 2012 - April 10, 2012 - Johannesburg, South Africa
The Courage of//Kabbo: From landscape to Literature
and be seen at Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand,
corner of Yale Road and Enoch Sontonga Avenue, Braamfontein. This
exhibit consists of photographs, notebooks, maps, and other articles
and marks a century since first Bleek and Lloyd publication on
Bushman folklore, "Specimens of Bushman Folklore." Curated
by Pippa Skotnes. Additional information from Michelle at 011 717
4700.
April 2-12, 2012 - Diss, England
An
exhibition on Ancient Maps of Diss, including information on
the 1637 manorial map which townsfolk helped buy for the county in
2007, will run at the Corn Hall Gallery on St Nicholas Street. The
free exhibition includes the launch of a book inspired by the 1637
map which is now kept at the Norfolk Record Office in Norwich. The
book reproduces much of its detail and describes what life would have
been like then. The Corn Hall will be showing several other maps
drawn up in later centuries, as well as local history displays.
February 29, 2012 - April 25, 2012 - Luxembourg City
Le
Luxembourg dans la Grande Région - Chefs-d'œuvre
cartographiques de la collection Fritz Hellwig [Cartographic
masterpieces from the collection of Fritz Hellwig] can
be seen in the Archives Nationales, Plateau du Saint-Esprit. Discover
the evolution of the political and economic space of the Greater
Region Saar-Lor-Lux and the development of art and science of
cartography. The Archives nationales present 58 original maps,
masterpieces dating from 1513 to 1950 from the collection of Fritz
Hellwig and preserved in the Archives of the Saarland. Fritz Hellwig,
who is now 99 years old, was a member of the Bundestag, the High
Authority of CECA and former vice-president of the European
Commission. This is a touring exhibition, designed by our colleagues
of the Archives of the Saarland. The Archives nationales hope to
contribute through this collaboration to a greater cultural exchange
in the Greater Region. A catalogue of the exhibition, including 22
large-format maps of Luxembourg as well as extensive information on
the Greater Region and the cartography, is for sale at the Archives
nationales and in bookstores across the country.
January 12, 2012 - April 27, 2012 – Leiden
Leiden
University organizes the exhibition Topographic Memory. Treasures
from the collection of Dutch topography. Town profiles and
drawings of prominent buildings like, monasteries, castles, city
gates and bridges are not only beautiful to look at, but can also
help to reconstruct the past. The exhibit can be seen in the
University Library at Witte Singel 27.
October 4, 2011 – April 28, 2012 – Portland,
Maine
The Osher Map
Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, corner of Forest
Avenue and Bedford Street, newest exhibition is The Grand Tour and
the Development of Tourism: 1600 to 1900" on October 4,
2011. The exhibit traces the “grand tour” as a rite of
passage for the British gentry from its beginnings to the early
modern era, when railroad and steamships introduced mass tourism as
we experience it today. Exhibition will be open to the public
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm.
February 22, 2012 – April 28, 2012 – New York
The
American Civil War is one of the defining events in American history.
To commemorate its 150th anniversary, the Norman B. Leventhal Map
Center at the Boston Public Library created the exhibition Torn in
Two: the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War. This multimedia
display takes a geographic and cartographic approach to exploring and
illuminating the causes of the conflict, the conduct of the war and
how the war was remembered in later years. It will showcase 50
historic maps interwoven with 40 photographs, paintings, prints,
diaries, political cartoons, music and press of the period. The
exhibit can be seen at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street. The
exhibit will be open to the public free of charge, Monday - Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A fully illustrated, 152-page exhibition catalog is
available for US $35.00; for information about purchasing a copy,
send inquiries to maps@bpl.org. The exhibit will move to the Osher
Map Library, Portland, Maine, April 1-August 30, 2013.
January 20, 2012 - April 29, 2012 - Topeka, Kansas
The
Kansas Historical Society announced that the Kansas Museum of History
will display the world’s earliest printed map as part of its
new temporary exhibit, You Are Here: Putting Kansas on the Map.
The Kansas Museum of History is open 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday –
Saturday and 1 – 5 p.m. Sunday. The Museum is located at 6425
SW 6th Avenue, Topeka. Admission fee is $8 adults, $6 students. A
highlight of this exhibit is the world’s earliest map, a
“T-in-O” style map of the world, represented as an “O”
with a “T” inside. The “T” divides three land
masses: Europe, Asia, and Africa. This map is on loan from the
Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas. An 1823 map
by explorer Major Stephen Long shows the plains labeled as the “Great
Desert.” This map led to the perception that Kansas was not
habitable. It is on loan from Special Collections and University
Archives, Wichita State University Libraries. Also in the exhibit are
the best maps from our collections, including a 1560 map of the New
World by German cartographer Sebastian Münster. It is the first
map to show the North and South American continents as separate from
the rest of the world. Other exploration- and settlement-themed items
in this exhibit include a map showing Pottawatomie land allotments, a
map of Indian reserves in 1854, a topographical map of the Oregon
Trail, an 1880s map showing places to water cattle in Gove County,
and Union Pacific land grant maps. Other maps in the exhibit explore
town development and tourism, including an imaginative map of Ness
City showing water canals and early 1900s travel maps.
January 6, 2012 - May 4, 2012 - Santa Fe
Between
the Lines: Culture and Cartography on the Road to Statehood, an
exhibition of thirty maps commemorating the centennial of New Mexico
statehood, is located in the State Capitol building, right outside
the governor’s office in the Governor's Gallery. The maps date
from 1564 to 2011 with more than half of them detailing the history
and culture of the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The maps are drawn from the holdings of the Fray Angélico
Chávez History Library of the Palace of Governors of the The
New Mexico History Museum and private collections across New Mexico,
Arizona, and Mexico. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Tomas Jaehn,
Director of the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library,
and Dr. Dennis Reinhartz, Emeritus Professor of History at The
University of Texas at Arlington, among others.
April 29, 2012 - May 5, 2012 - Westborough, Massachusetts
A
week-long exhibition by the Westborough Historical Society, Mapping
Westborough can be seen at the Community Room downstairs at the
Westborough Public Library, 55 West Main St. The exhibition features
approximately 40 maps of Westborough drawn from the collection of the
Westborough Historical Society, the Westborough Public Library, the
Town of Westborough, and the Westborough Historic Commission. The
maps explore the history of the town from early colonial days to the
present time. Through the language of cartography, the maps in the
exhibition illustrate the way Westborough changed over time: from a
farming community to a small village to a thriving community served
by major roads and highways. Maps featured in the exhibition include
the Marlborough Plantation, dated 1667; the plan of Chauncey 1717,
submitted with the petition to form the town; a copy of the first map
of the United States published in America, dated 1784 and showing
Westborough; bird’s eye view map from 1888; fire insurance maps
from 1904; highway map from 1938; an aerial photo/map from 1967, and
many more.
April 29, 2012 - May 6, 2012 – Tehran
An
exhibition of historical maps of Iran dating back to the Qajar era
(1794-1925) can be seen at Golestan Palace, a Qajar era monument
located in downtown Tehran. Five complete maps of Iran containing
detailed information about Persian Gulf and its islands are on
display. The maps belong to the time of Naser ad-Din Shah and Mozafar
ad-Din Shah. Three of the maps were drawn by Iranians and two by
foreign geographers.
April 28, 2012 - May 14, 2012 - Astana, Kazakhstan
Maps
and journeys: Encounters of Kazakhstan and Europe from Alexander the
Great to Queen Victoria is an exhibition of original maps from
the private collection of Dr Nigel Gould-Davies, and it will take
place for the first time in Kazakhstan. It tells the story of how
Western travellers to Central Asia gradually introduced Europe to the
culture and traditions of the Nomads. Nigel Gould-Davies taught
international relations at Oxford University and worked for ten years
in the British diplomatic service before joining BG Group in Astana
in 2010. His experience of Kazakhstan inspired him to acquire a
personal collection of maps that portray the unfolding history of
Western encounters with this country over the past 2,000 years.
Together they tell the story of the unfolding relationship between
these two great regions of the world, and highlight the intrepid
journeys of the travellers who made this possible. The exhibition can
be seen at the Palace of Independence, 52 Tauyelsyzdyk Avenue.
April 3, 2012 - mid May 2012 – Dublin
For
the first time ever, this collection of historical maps of the
Phoenix Park, spanning over three hundred and fifty years, will be on
view to the public in the Phoenix Park Visitor's Centre. From Robert
Girdler's map of 1650 we can begin to trace the changing landscape of
the park over the centuries. Be it, James Asser's drawing of the Park
c1775 or Captain Brown's map of 1813 or the more recent Ordnance
Survey maps of the 19th century, the exciting story of the Park is
illustrated.
May 9-18, 2012 – Washington
The
U.S. and Mexican Commissioners of the International Boundary and
Water Commission (IBWC) inaugurated an exhibit, Maps, Minutes and
Monuments: History of the Boundary Line, 1848-2011, depicting the
IBWC’s history and accomplishments at the Organization of
American States. The exhibit will be on display at the headquarters
of the OAS, located on the corner of 17th Street and Constitution
Avenue, weekdays between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. This display is
drawn from an earlier exhibit prepared for the IBWC’s Border
Sanitation and Water Quality Summit held in San Antonio, Texas, in
March 2011. The portion of Maps, Minutes, and Monuments currently
on display at the OAS offers illustrative examples of the IBWC’s
history and the breadth of its activities through maps and technical
drawings created by cartographers and engineers; treaties and
“minutes” (the term for agreements intended to implement
the treaties) crafted by diplomats and administrators; and the
boundary monuments, dams, and levees built and maintained by the
IBWC. The items on display come mainly from IBWC holdings, but some
are from other public and private sources. The IBWC is an
international body comprising United States and Mexican Sections that
have responsibility for applying various boundary and water treaties
between the two countries that date from the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo of 1848 and for settling differences that may arise out of
these treaties. The U.S. Section receives foreign policy guidance
from the U.S. Department of State, and the Mexican Section similarly
operates under the foreign policy direction of Mexico’s
Secretariat of Foreign Relations. The IBWC is widely recognized as a
model of effective international cooperation. The two sections
maintain headquarters in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua, on opposite sides of the Rio Grande.
February 28, 2012 - May 26, 2012 - Clinton, Massachusetts
Denis
Khotimsky had no idea historical maps of Russia still existed until
he found one on eBay at the age of 28. A cartography enthusiast since
childhood, he was born in Moscow and moved to the U.S. in 1992 when
he bought that first antique map - printed in 1595 by the famous
Flemish engraver Gerhard Mercator. Since then, Mr. Khotimsky, 48, has
amassed a collection of 300 old maps and books, of which 32 will be
on exhibit at the Museum of Russian Icons, 203 Union Street. They
have never been shown to the public. The exhibit Pathways to
Russia includes a huge 1711 panorama of Moscow, a 1656 map
showing “the procession of Muscovites,” a 1662 map of the
north Dvina River, described as the only waterway into Muscovite; and
two rare 1570 and 1606 maps of Tataria, or Tatar, basically the
Mongol Empire.
February 2, 2012 - May 27, 2012 - New Haven
The
libraries, museums and galleries of England owe a debt of gratitude
to the Society of Antiquaries of London, the oldest repository for
ancient manuscripts, paintings, drawings and rare books that
chronicle the history of England. Making History: Antiquaries in
Britain is an expansive and fascinating collection of some of
those antiquities - 100 from the Society, augmented by about 50 items
from Yale Center for British Art and other Yale collections, on
exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art, 1180 Chapel St. It’s
a veritable walk through British history depicted through works of
art, furniture, geological and historical maps, coins, arms, even a
copy of the Magna Carta from 1225.
February 24, 2012 – May 27, 2012 - London
To
mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gerhard Mercator
(1512-94), Treasures Display:
Gerhard Mercator: Mapping Britain small display
will feature some of the celebrated cartographer's most
groundbreaking work including the first 'Atlas', one of his only
surviving manuscript maps, and maps and letters demonstrating his
influence upon the early mapping of Great Britain. Free in the Sir
John Ritblat Gallery, British Library, 96 Euston Road.
August 22, 2011 - May 30, 2012 – Tucson
Becoming
Arizona: The Valentine State is an exhibit in celebration of 100
years of Arizona statehood. On February 14, 1912, Arizona became the
48th state, and the last of the contiguous states, to join the Union.
Known as the “Valentine State,” Arizona’s path to
statehood was marked by a pioneering spirit, intermittent achievement
and political debate. Becoming Arizona: The Valentine State
recreates the colorful story of Arizona’s path to statehood.
This year-long exhibition is on display in the gallery at Special
Collections, 1510 E. University Blvd. Becoming Arizona
features a selection of maps, books, photographs, letters, scrapbooks
and unique items selected from Special Collections’ extensive
Southwest and Borderlands holdings. The exhibit documents the
experiences and stories that defined the region during the colonial
period, territorial times and the years leading up to 1912 statehood.
Additional information from Chrystal Carpenter.
February 24, 2012 – May 30, 2012 - Tijuana
Changing
Boundaries: Historic Maps of the U.S.-Mexico Border is an exhibit
of maps that illustrate how the present U.S.-Mexico border region has
evolved over the past four centuries. It will be on display at
"Fronteras Cambiantes" - CECUT, Tijuana Cultural Center,
Paseo de los Héroes No. 9350, Zona Urbana Río. The maps
on display are from the collection of Simon Burrow, who curates the
exhibit. Burrow has been acquiring items in his collection from map
and used book dealers around the world over a span of 25 years. The
maps, which date as early as 1597, show the explorations, claims,
counter claims and conquests that resulted in the current borderline.
There are examples of how California was depicted as an island
populated by Amazons and maps that show where ancient and mythical
cities were thought to be, as well as treasure maps that would
allegedly lead to Cibola – the Seven Cities of Gold.
May 31, 2011 – May 31, 2012 – Washington
When
Earth is viewed from space, cloud formations, coastlines, mountain
ranges, islands, deltas, glaciers and rivers take on patterns
resembling abstract art—with striking textures and brilliant
colors. These images can be seen in a new exhibit, Earth
as Art, in the
exhibition hall outside the Geography and Map Reading Room, Library
of Congress, on the basement level of the James Madison Building, 101
Independence Ave. S.E. The exhibit is free and open to the public
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The 40
award-winning Landsat satellite images will become a part of the
permanent collection of the Library’s Geography and Map
Division (G&M). In 2006, G&M hosted an earlier “Earth
as Art” exhibit and those images also became a part of the
Library’s permanent collection. Landsat satellites for nearly
40 years have captured images of the Earth’s surface, providing
data for applications in business, science, education, government and
national security. The satellites monitor important natural processes
and human land use such as vegetation growth, deforestation,
agriculture, coastal and river erosion, snow accumulation,
fresh-water reservoir replenishment and urbanization. The U.S.
Geological Survey selected images for the exhibit based on their
aesthetic appeal rather than their scientific value.
December 1, 2011 - June 2012 - Helena, Montana
Mapping
Montana: Two Centuries of Cartography can be seen at Montana
Historical Society, 225 North Roberts, Lobby Gallery. In December
1965 the Montana Historical Society marked the centennial of the
creation of Montana’s first map, drawn by preeminent
cartographer and surveyor, Walter W. de Lacy, with an exhibit of de
Lacy’s maps. For the first time since 1965 the Historical
Society is displaying a selection of the institution’s massive
collection of over 10,000 maps. This unique collaboration between the
Historical Society’s Research Center and the Museum will tell
the story of Montana’s past from early exploration to the
Indian wars to the arrival of the railroad and through the
development of Montana’s industries of mining, cattle ranching,
farming, and tourism. The exhibit will also document the creation of
towns and cities, national parks and forests, and highways.
April 12, 2012 - June 9, 2012 - Jacksonville Beach,
Florida
Four hundred
and fifty years ago the Frenchman Jean Ribault approached the coast
of Florida and saw a large river. As this happened on May first, he
named it “River of May,” now known as the St. John's
River. He explored both sides of the river and met the native Timucua
inhabitants. Jean Ribault and the French in 16th Century Florida:
Rare Engravings and Historic Maps can be seen at Beaches Museum &
History Park, 381 Beach Blvd. On display in the Hallway and Dickinson
Galleries, it tells the story of how representatives of French
royalty encountered native Floridian royalty from two Timucua tribal
groups. The exhibit features 16th century engravings, maps and
artifacts, with much of it on loan from Michael and Linda Fisher of
Jacksonville.
March 10, 2012 – June 10, 2012 – Dortmund
In
honor of the 500th anniversary of birth of Gerhard Mercator, the
Museum for Art and Cultural History, Hansastr. 3, will have an
exhibit Vom Weltbild der Renaissance zum Kartenbild der Moderne
[From the Renaissance to the Modern World Map]. Mercator
(1512-1594) was the first cartographer with high precision in their
mapping. His remarkable skills in copperplate created globes, world
maps and detailed in previously unheard of quality. His Atlas shaped
our current understanding of relevant maps. This special exhibition
demonstrates the individual aspects of Mercator's work and its
implications for mapping and navigation to this day. In addition to
original globes, there will be other exhibits on the development of
today's world image. The Mercator Atlas of 1595 is a key exhibit.
May 10, 2012 - June 10, 2012 - Opole, Poland
Exhibition
of Maps of Silesia consists of about 100 maps of Silesia and
Silesian town views. It can be seen in the Regional Public Library,
Gallery WuBePe, ul. Piastowska 20. XV to XIX century maps come from
Opole library collection and VKOL (Olomouc Scientific Library, Czech
Republic). Presented also are 1507 and 1535 editions of Ptolemy's
Geographia with maps of Central Europe specifying the name of the
region ("Slesia" and "Schlesia"), once belonging
to the Kingdom of Bohemia, then to Habsburgs, Prussia, and now to
Poland.
April 12, 2012 - June 12, 2012 - Bogota, Colombia
In
the late eighteenth century the Spanish Navy Brigadier Joaquin
Francisco Fidalgo undertook, by order of the Spanish Crown, an
expedition to the shores of the Caribbean. His mission was to
participate in the development of an atlas of North America, which
would allow Spain more power over the conquered territory and better
coping strategies in the war with England and France. The knowledge
of the stars cultivated since ancient times, and the ability to
measure and relate time and distance with nautical inventions of the
time, made this journey a pioneer of modern Spanish mapping in the
New World. Time and stars. The expedition of Fidalgo and mapping
of Caribbean Granada, organized by the Banco de la República
and the Universidad Externado de Colombia, is the first time that
these charts, preserved at the Naval Museum in Madrid, will be
displayed in Colombia. The exhibit is on display at Biblioteca Luis
Ángel Arango - Sala de Exposiciones Bibliográficas,
alle 11 # 4-14.
March 25, 2012 - June 17, 2012 – Antwerp
In
honor of the 500th anniversary of Gerard Mercator (1512-1594), the
Museum Plantin-Moretus/Prentenkabinet, Vrijdagmarkt 22-23, has an
exhibit Mercator: Reizen in het onbekende [Mercator: Exploring New
Horizons]. The exhibition illustrates the fascinating interaction
between travel behavior and the development of cartography by means
of travel reports, books, letters, maps and atlases, scientific
instruments and prints. The worldview of the Europeans in the 16th
and 17th century significantly expanded and opened a new world.
Explorers, traders and diplomats write down their travel experiences
in journals and reports. Travel literature is an important source of
information for the mapping industry, which is growing fast.
April 13, 2012 - June 17, 2012 - Concord, Massachusetts
What
is the meaning of historical objects? Why are they preserved, and why
have they survived? Are they valued for their associations, aesthetic
appeal, oddity or simply the stories that they tell? Such questions
will be the focus of a special exhibition at the Concord Museum, The
Object of History: Colonial Treasures from the Massachusetts
Historical Society. The exhibition will explore more than 70
objects, including portraits, needlework, maps, firearms, swords,
furniture, clothing, scientific instruments and silver from the
Massachusetts Historical Society. Included is John Foster's map of
the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first map published in America. The
Museum is located at 53 Cambridge Turnpike.
March 1, 2012 – June 23, 2012 – Vancouver
Surveying
instruments that helped lay out one of the Northwest’s most
historic properties - Vancouver Barracks - will be part of a new
display at the Clark County Historical Museum, 511 Main St. The
Mapping Clark County exhibit will feature maps and aerial
photographs of the county from 1854 to 2000. Instruments used by C.C.
Redman to survey the Vancouver Barracks site a job he completed in
1851 include a transit and a compass. The exhibit will include a
tribute to Phil Arnold, the longtime Vancouver mapmaker who died on
Jan. 14 at age 96. His family has lended several maps and items from
his upstairs office in the Arnolds’ home.
January 12, 2012 - June 29, 2012 – Singapore
The
Raffles Town Plan depicting the urban plan of Singapore according to
the instructions of Sir Stamford Raffles, a video on unusual street
names, legal documents and maps are among the items featured in an
exhibition at the National Library, 100 Victoria Street. The Stories
Behind Singapore Streets exhibition, which traces street naming
conventions from the pre-colonial era to modern Singapore, aims to
create a greater awareness of the Republic's early history,
nation-building process and multicultural heritage. In total, more
than 100 street names are featured, such as those during the 14th and
15th century, pre-Raffles Singapore and the post-colonial period
after Singapore's independence in 1965. Other highlights include the
National Library's legal documents and maps from the Koh Seow Chuan
collection, PictureSG1's photographs of street scenes of early
Singapore from the Lee Kip Lin collection, and a video on 10 unusual
street names such as Kay Poh Road, Rotan Lane and One Tree Hill.
March 23, 2012 - June 30, 2012 - Beaufort, South Carolina
The
remains of Fort Fremont on St. Helena Island are quite easy to find -
but it's not easy to make much sense of the barren concrete
structures and a fort that long ago lost most of its buildings. But a
new exhibit at the Verdier House, at 801 Bay Street, seeks to
reignite interest and offer education on the site and its historical
significance. The Fort Fremont: Homeland Security c. 1898
exhibit features many documents, maps, relics, and more on the fort
that was built in the run-up to the Spanish American War.
April 10, 2012 - June 30, 2012 - Briarcliff Manor, New
York
It's a blast
from the past as the Briarcliff Manor Scarborough Historical Society
gives residents a chance to see what Briarcliff Manor looked like
more than 200 years ago. The historical society is showcasing maps,
drawings and illustrative materials of early Briarcliff Manor,
Westchester and surrounding areas that date to 1806 in an exhibit
that includes archival items that relate to early life in the
community and surroundings. The exhibit is open from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays through June 30 at the
historical society, located below the Briarcliff Manor Public
Library. The exhibit is also open by appointment by calling
914-941-4393.
June 20-30, 2012 – Jakarta
The
exhibition History of Islam at the National Museum, Jl.
Merdeka Barat No. 12 Center Jakarta, features over 20 maps from the
collection of Giovanni de Agostini, Jr. The maps begin to tell the
story of the world’s situation at Muhammad’s birth.
Viewers can then look at later events, such as the Prophet’s
journey from Medina to Mecca where he and his followers spread Islam
from 632 to 661 A.D. during the period of the four caliphs: Abu Bakr,
Omar, Uthman and Ali. The cartographic journey continues with the
period of Arab conquest in lands such as Syria and Mesopotamia from
632 to 714, the period of the Mongol Empire founded by Gengis Khan,
the series of wars termed the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire’s
rise to power and its decline, as well as the spread of Islam in
Indonesia. The History of Islam exhibition is sponsored by the
Embassy of Italy and The Italian Institute of Culture Jakarta, in
collaboration with L’Antica Cartografia and the National
Museum.
March 8, 2012 - July 3, 2012 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
In
1828, the United States and Great Britain agreed to let the King of
the Netherlands settle the long-standing dispute over the Northeast
Boundary (Maine’s borders with New Brunswick and Quebec). To
support American territorial claims with topographical evidence,
Albert Gallatin (who represented the US government’s interests)
requested the loan of 22 maps from the Harvard College Library, and
these maps accompanied Gallatin’s retinue to the Hague. When
arbitration failed, the maps made their second transatlantic voyage,
but this was only the first stage in a journey that spanned more than
two decades. Long after the boundary was settled by the
Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, Harvard continued to press for the
return of its cartographic loan. A Border Line Case: Harvard's
Maps and the Northeast Boundary Dispute explores the complex
history of this unusual transaction—why these particular maps
were chosen, how they were used to support American claims, and why
it took 25 years for Harvard to get its maps back. Among the cast of
characters who played roles in this story were: three Harvard
presidents (Quincy, Everett, and Sparks), several Secretaries of
State (including Daniel Webster and James Buchanan), and President
Millard Fillmore. Exhibit can be seen in the Map Gallery Hall, Pusey
Library, Harvard University. For further information, contact Joseph
Garver at 617-496-3670.
June 12, 2012 - July 12, 2012 - Astana, Kazakhstan
Nigel
Gould-Davies, a British oilman, has lived in Kazakhstan for the past
2 years. He has exhibited his collection of ancient geographic maps
called Maps and Traveling: Introducing Kazakhstan to Europe, from
Alexander the Great to Queen Victoria. The exhibition contains 13
ancient maps that constitute a large part of the collection.
According to Gould-Davies, he collected the maps in many cities of
Western Europe, especially in Great Britain and Holland, as these
countries had big map-making centers in 16-17 centuries. The
exhibition is held in Nazarbayev Center.
June 13, 2012 - July 12, 2012 - New York
The
American Irish Historical Society in collaboration with Mayo County
Council’s Jackie Clarke Collection: Ireland’s Memory,
Linen Hall Library, and The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the
Boston Public Library presents an exhibition Island: Drawing
Conclusions Mapping the Irish. This exhibition is open to the
public Monday-Friday 10- 5 at the American Irish Historical Society,
991 Fifth Avenue.
December 6, 2011 - July 15, 2012 - New York
The
Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 celebrates
the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, the
foundational document that established Manhattan’s famous
street grid. Featuring an original hand-drawn map of New York's
planned streets and avenues prepared by the Commission in 1811, as
well as other rare historic maps, photographs and prints of the
evolution of the city's streets, and original manuscripts and
publications that document the city’s physical growth, the
exhibition examines the grid’s initial design, implementation,
and evolution. The Greatest Grid traces the enduring influence
of the 1811 plan as the grid has become a defining feature of the
city, shaping its institutions and public life. The exhibition can be
seen at Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue. The
exhibit is accompanied by a book of the same name, edited by Hilary
Ballon of NYU, who also curated the exhibition, and co-published by
the Museum and Columbia University Press.
June 14, 2012 - July 15, 2012 - Yarmouth Port,
Massachusetts
The
Historical Society of Old Yarmouth opened an exhibit of nearly 50 old
maps at the Bangs Hallet House Museum in Yarmouth Port that
illustrate how Cape Cod has been represented on maps for 400 years.
The maps, provided by Robert E. Zaremba and Danielle R. Jeanloz of
Maps of Antiquity in Chatham for an exhibit called Mapping Cape
Cod – Both Land and Sea are displayed throughout the first
floor of the museum on Strawberry Lane. They are displayed in four
categories: maps from the 17th and 18th centuries, nautical charts
and government maps, 19th century Cape Cod town maps and 20th century
maps. Additional maps belonging to the museum and friends of the
museum are in upstairs rooms. Open Thursdays through Sundays, 1 to 4
p.m.
April 21, 2012 - July 23, 2012 - San Marino, California
Drawing
on the unparalleled manuscripts collection on the topic held by The
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, a major
exhibition illuminates the remarkable changes wrought in the United
States by the planning, construction, and completion of the
transcontinental railroad. Visions of Empire: The Quest for a
Railroad Across America, 1840–1880, on view in the MaryLou
and George Boone Gallery, coincides with the 150th anniversary of the
1862 Pacific Railroad Act, which led to the rail connection between
the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean. The exhibition features
some 200 items, the vast majority from The Huntington - including
maps, photographs, illustrations, newspapers, magazines, letters, and
diaries, most of which have never before been on public display.
June 23, 2012 - July 31, 2012 – Manila
Several
old maps of the Philippines during the Spanish colonization period of
the country will be on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila,
next to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on Roxas Blvd. This
exhibition, Three Hundred Years of Philippine Maps 1598-1898,
includes 134 original Philippine Maps dating from the Spanish
colonial period to early American time. The show features maps of
Petrus Kaerius, J.N. Metellus, Wytfliet, Bertius and Fr. Pedro
Murillo Velarde's 18th century Mapa de las Islas Filipinas.
April 25, 2012 - July 29, 2012 – Brussels
The
Royal Library of Belgium, Keizerslaan, 4, will stage two exhibits
simultaneously. The Maps and Plans section will exhibit the 1595
Atlas of Mercator. This atlas constitutes one of the most
important contributions of Mercator to modern cartography. This atlas
was in fact part of a wider project of cosmographic dimension, which
was interrupted by Mercator's death. The successive steps of that
project will be presented as 'focus' in the Librarium, the permanent
exhibition area of the Library. Several cartographic sources have
been used by Mercator for his Atlas. One of them is the magnificent
manuscript atlas of Christian Sgrooten, the “Atlas
Bruxellensis” from ca. 1573. This unique source was hidden
during centuries among the treasures of the Spanish court. In 1859,
it was bought by the Royal Library and restored in 2007. The second
exhibition, Une source royale pour Mercator [A Royal Source for
Mercator], in the Nassau Chapel, will present the relationship
between this masterpiece and Mercator's Atlas; the public will
discover the maps from Sgrooten which directly inspired Mercator.
June 20, 2012 - August 5, 2012 - Freeport, Illinois
The
changes and growth in Freeport and Stephenson County will be
highlighted in a new exhibit at the Stephenson County Historical
Museum - A Century of Maps: Freeport and Stephenson County, 1870s
to 1970s. Plat books of Stephenson County from 1871, 1894 and
1913 will be on display, along with a set of 1899 Illinois Central
Railroad maps of Freeport. Highly detailed maps of Freeport, created
by the Sanborn Map Company of Chicago will be available for
examination. These maps were used by insurance underwriters. Other
early maps of Freeport are also included in the exhibition. Early
tools by surveyors, including a Gunther’s Chain are part of the
exhibit. The Stephenson County Museum, 1440 S. Carroll Ave., is open
from noon to 4 p.m., Wednesdays to Sundays.
May 15, 2012 - August 23, 2012 - Portland, Maine
The
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, at the
University of Southern Maine, is pleased to announce its new
exhibition: The Triumph of the Passenger Ship: Highlights from the
Norman H. Morse Ocean Liner Collection, 1870-2010, curated by
maritime historian Lincoln Paine. The exhibition presents the
experience of life aboard these grand vessels through a selection of
the Morse Collection of ocean liner ephemera. Norman H. Morse
assembled his collection of almost 3,000 pieces over eight decades,
and gave it to the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for
Cartographic Education in 2009.
March 4, 2012 - August 26, 2012 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
The
500th anniversary of the birth of Mercator in Sint-Niklaas is being
recognized by an exhibition, Mercator Digitaal, in the
Stedelijke Musea, Zwijgershoek 14. Seven kiosks highlight various
aspects of Mercator's work and life. Mercator Digitaall is an
interactive exhibition with use of modern computer and projection
techniques.
August 7-31, 2012 – Trier, Germany
The
University Library of Trier and the National Library Centre of
Rhineland-Palatinate (Koblenz) have organized an exhibition 100
Years’ Lifetime Collection - 500 Years of Map Treasures
at
the University
Library of Trier. The exhibition celebrates the 100th birthday of
Fritz Hellwig, a major benefactor of the Trier University Library.
Additional information from Tel: 00 49(0)651-201-2420.
June 16, 2012 - September 1, 2012 – Toronto
The
TD Gallery, in the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street, main
floor, has an exhibit featuring maps and other artifacts collected by
Toronto's first chief librarian, James Bain. A Passion for
History: The Legacy of James Bain features rare historical maps,
books, manuscripts and prints from Bain's own extensive private
collection. Bain was an avid collector of maps and he was also a
publisher and books collector.
May 11, 2012 – September 9, 2012 – Oxford
A
stellar selection of books, globes and instruments have been brought
together from across the UK for the summer special exhibition, The
Renaissance in Astronomy, at the
Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street. The exhibition
marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of cartographer Gerard
Mercator, whose world map projection we use to this day. Mercator was
famed for his globes and a pair of his splendid terrestrial and
celestial globes, lent by Royal Museums Greenwich, are featured in
the exhibition. Also on show is Mercator’s own annotated copy
of Copernicus’s ground-breaking book “De revolutionibus
orbium coelestium,” and Johannes Schöner's magnificent
celestial globe.
June 22, 2012 - September 14, 2012 - Dunedin, New Zealand
The
exhibition Charting the Land on the Ocean: Pacific Exploration,
1520-1876 can be seen in the de Beer Gallery, Special
Collections, University of Otago, 65 Albany Street. It will feature
rare books and maps from the Hocken Collections, the Science Library,
Special Collections, University of Otago, and the Heritage
Collection, Dunedin Public Library. Aside from works on Cook,
Bougainville, Kotzebue, Freycinet, Duperrey, and Dumont d’Urville,
etc., three wonderful associational items will be on display: tapa
cloth specimens collected by Cook, an original Rose Freycinet letter
(courtesy of the Heritage Collection, Dunedin Public Library), and a
‘Resolution’ Medal, found on a beach in Dunedin back in
1863 (courtesy of the Otago Museum). An online version of this
exhibition can be seen at
http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/charting-the-land-on-the-ocean/index.php.
February 15, 2012 – September 15, 2012 - Astoria,
Oregon
An exhibition titled Envisioning the World: The
First Printed Maps, 1472-1700 can be seen at Columbia River
Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Drive. 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. A concurrent exhibition, Mapping the Pacific
Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark. The Quivira Collection, is a
world class exhibition showcasing 45 magnificent maps, books and
illustrations, dated 1544 through 1802, of the west coast of North
America. It invites viewers on a voyage of exploration from the first
tentative probing by European explorers through Thomas Jefferson’s
commission of the Corps of Discovery.
May 18, 2012 - September 23, 2012 - New York
Featuring
some seventy masterpieces of drawings, books, maps, and letters from
the Morgan Library's rich holdings, the exhibition Renaissance
Venice: Drawings from the Morgan chronicles the artistic
production of the city of Venice and its territories during the
republic's Golden Age, the sixteenth century. The exhibition features
striking examples by great masters of the period, including Paris
Bordone, Vittore Carpaccio, Lorenzo Lotto, Jacopo Tintoretto, Titian,
and Paolo Veronese. Offering compelling insights into contemporary
art, religion, and culture, Renaissance Venice addresses
topics such as the portrait in Venetian art, Venice and the landscape
tradition, religious and civic life, artistic innovations in
printmaking and drawing, book publishing and cartography, and the
role of foreign artists in the city. Exhibition can be viewed at
Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue.
June 22, 2012 - September 23, 2012 – Brussels
The
Centre for fine Arts, Rue Ravenstein 23, has organised an exhibition
to mark the Cypriot presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Mapping Cyprus 1191-2012: Crusaders, Traders, and Explorers
recounts the island’s eventful history. A crossroads for the
major commercial and political exchanges between West and East,
Cyprus was long coveted by competing civilisations and was occupied
by a succession of them. The exhibition opens with the period of
Frankish (i.e. Western) domination inaugurated by Richard the
Lionheart in 1191. Richard sold Cyprus to Guy de Lusignan, who
founded an independent kingdom that lasted for nearly three centuries
(1192-1489). Venice was the next owner, before the island was seized
by the Ottomans in 1571. They, in turn, ceded it in 1878 to the
British, who recognised its independence in 1960.The exhibition
reflects this exceptional cultural interchange, which radiated
throughout Europe and saw the interpenetration of Byzantine, Western,
and Venetian art. It includes some fifty icons, geographical maps,
and paintings belonging to the last queen of Cyprus, Caterina
Cornaro, and to the Venetian period, as well as two special thematic
rooms devoted to Shakespeare’s Othello and to the music of the
Lusignan court.
April 19, 2012 - September 26, 2012 – Washington
The
500th anniversary of Armenian printing this year provides an
opportunity to highlight the prominent early role Armenians, who at
that time already had lost statehood and had their homeland come
under foreign rule, played in the Near East in this field. It also is
an opportunity to present some of the fruits of centuries of Armenian
literary and cultural work. The Library of Congress, thanks to the
efforts of curator Dr. Levon Avdoyan and a team of staff members,
inaugurated a beautifully designed exhibit in the South Gallery of
the Thomas Jefferson Building titled To Know Wisdom and
Instruction: The Armenian Literary Tradition at the Library of
Congress.” It will remain on display Monday-Saturday from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. There is no charge for access to this exhibit.
The exhibit includes 76 items from as early as the 14th century, and
as late as 2010. The early manuscripts on display show that Armenia
had a long and illustrious literary tradition which quickly was
transformed by the adoption of printing. The exhibit includes the
first complete Armenian-language printed bible from Amsterdam (1666),
the first modern Armenian novel, the first transcription of the
Armenian liturgy with European musical notation in the 19th century,
an 18th-century phylactery or prayer scroll and various rare
19th-century publications. Maps, such as one of Yerevan in the early
20th century, sheet music and modern diasporan, Ottoman, Soviet and
post-Soviet Armenian books and periodicals show the vitality and
range of Armenian printing. Non-printed items such as manuscript
illuminations, elaborately embroidered fabrics, musical recordings
and photographs highlight the richness and range of the Library of
Congress collection. The exhibit may also be viewed online.
March 12, 2012 - September 29, 2012 - New York
Google
Maps may be the cutting edge way to navigate one's surroundings, but
to create it tech whizzes relied on a centuries old formula developed
by a Flemish geographer and cartographer named Gerard Mercator. With
2012 marking the 500th anniversary of Mercator’s birth, the New
York Public Library will display several of Mercator’s expertly
drawn maps, drafted with ancient technology that is still being used
today. Mercator at 500 can be seen at at the New York Public
Library, Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, on Fifth
Avenue and 42nd Street.
July 10, 2012 - September 29, 2012 - Sanford, Florida
The
Museum of Seminole County History, 300 Bush Boulevard, will display
this summer Historic Maps of Seminole County. Trace the
history and development of Central Florida through historical maps
from our collection. Over 50 maps include maps of the State of
Florida in the Spanish occupation, survey, topographical maps, and
land use maps for towns in the county and maps of the St. Johns
River. Open Tuesday-Friday 1:00PM to 5:00PM and Saturday 9:00AM to
1:00PM.
June 5, 2012 - September 30, 2012 – Washington
Over
the course of two centuries, London changed from the capital of
England, secure within its medieval walls, to a metropolitan seat of
empire. Its population grew tenfold. Some urban developments were
spurred by the dissolution of the monasteries, a royal decree that
was both politically and religiously motivated. Also reshaping the
city were natural tragedies, like repeated bouts of the plague or the
Great Fire of 1666 that destroyed more than 13,000 homes, 86
churches, and over 400 acres in the heart of the city. Such events
had a significant impact on the built environment, opening up spaces
for repurposing. Open City: London, 1500-1700 explores
activities and pressures that altered Londoners’ sense of
community, focusing especially on three types of institutions that
touched everyday lives: church, theater, and market. Drawing on
materials as disparate as deeds, diaries, engravings, and maps, Open
City illustrates the impact of new ideas, new products, and new
people in this rapidly growing capital city. Exhibit can be seen at
Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol Street, SE.
July 3, 2012 - September 30, 2012 - The Hague
Leiden
University Library, Museum Meermanno and the Embassy of the Republic
of Cyprus present the exhibition Cyprus Insula: Maps of Cyprus
from the Low Countries in Museum Meermanno, Prinsessegracht 30.
The exhibition is organised by the Special Collections of Leiden
University, Museum Meermanno and the Embassy of the Republic of
Cyprus on the occasion of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the
European Union in the second half of 2012. In this small exhibition
in the 19th century book room of Museum Meermanno you can see the
most important maps of Cyprus from Dutch and Flemish atlases and
travel accounts and some of the rare Venetian examples on which these
maps were based. This exhibition shows the history of the mapping of
Cyprus, as well as the history of Dutch map production, especially
the history of atlas publishing in the Southern and Northern
Netherlands. Beside the famous atlases of Ortelius, Hondius and
Blaeu, some rare works are exposed like a small woodcut atlas of
Zacharias Heyns, the first atlas published in Holland in 1598. The
Low Countries played an important role in the mapping of the island
of Cyprus, because Antwerp and later Amsterdam were the main centres
of map and atlas production in the 16th and 17th century.
October 6, 2012 – Sacramento
In celebration of
National Archives Month this October, archives and special
collections libraries from throughout the region will showcase their
rarely-seen holdings during the 2nd Annual Sacramento Archives
Crawl. Free and open to the public, the theme for the event this
year is “Building Sacramento, Building Communities” and
crawl participants can expect to see a wide range of historic
materials documenting the growth of the region. Showcasing historic
treasures from twenty Northern California institutions, special
artifacts will be on display at four host locations including the
California State Archives, the California State Library, the Center
for Sacramento History, and the Sacramento Public Library. Due to the
popularity of the first-year effort in 2011, Sacramento Archives
Crawl event hours are expanded this year to run from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. In the Sacramento Room at the Sacramento Public Library, 828 I
Street, will be historic maps showing the growth of Sacramento from
pre-Gold Rush to the late 20th century.
September 29, 2012 – October 12, 2012 – London
The
Royal Geographical Society has an exhibition of globes crafted by
London globemakers Bellerby & Co. The exhibits offer a rare
glimpse into the art of globemaking.
September 11, 2012 - October 15, 2012 – Lisbon
Maps
Readers: Two Centuries of Cartographic History in Portugal is the
title of an exhibition on show at the National Library of Portugal,
exhibition room - 3rd floor, Campo Grande, 83, in connection with the
4th Iberian-American Conference on the History of Cartography. This
exhibition presents an ample retrospective of the work of
cartographic historians in Portugal during the last 200 years. It
highlights the work of about a dozen Portuguese researchers including
the founder of the discipline, the Viscount of Santarém, and
other internationally recognized personalities such as Duarte Leite,
Abel Fontoura da Costa, Jaime e Armando Cortesão, Luís
de Albuquerque and Avelino Teixeira da Mota. The exhibition shows a
selection of about 80 objects pertaining to various funds at the
National Library of Portugal including books, articles, manuscripts,
photographs, engravings, atlases and maps. It highlights the
contribution made by Portuguese researchers to a discipline that has
made much progress since its founding days in the early 19th century.
The materials are grouped in four sections concentrating on specific
cultural, scientific and political-diplomatic contexts in which the
history of cartography developed.
May 18, 2012 - October 28, 2012 – London
A
new exhibition about the inspiration, history and creativity behind
London transport maps opens at the London Transport Museum, Covent
Garden Piazza. Mind the Map: inspiring art, design and cartography
will draw on the Museum’s outstanding map collection to explore
the themes of journeys, identity and publicity. The exhibition will
be the largest of its kind and will include previously unseen
historic material and exciting new artworks by leading artists
including Simon Patterson, Stephen Walter, Susan Stockwell, Jeremy
Wood, Claire Brewster, and Agnes Poitevin-Navarre. The displays will
explore geographical, diagrammatic and decorative transport maps, as
well as the influence of the iconic London Tube map on cartography,
art and the public imagination. The Underground, London Transport,
and its successor Transport for London, have produced outstanding
maps for over 100 years. These have not only shaped the city, they
have inspired the world. Looking in particular at the relationship
between identity and place, Mind the Map will explore the
impact maps have had on our understanding of London and how they
influence the way we navigate and engage with our surroundings.
October 6-28, 2012 - Emsworth, Hampshire
Glimpses
of Hampshire and Sussex in days gone by will be given in an
exhibition of old maps and prints. The special exhibition is on at
Emsworth Museum, 10b North Street.
March 21, 2012 – October, 2012 - Ithaca, New York
The
Maps and Media Unit in the Research & Learning Services
Department of Olin & Uris Libraries has prepared a new exhibit,
Columbia or America: 500 Years of Controversy, displayed in
the lower level lobby of Olin Library , Cornell University. The
exhibit was inspired by the 500th anniversary of the death of Amerigo
Vespucci, the Florentine explorer who gave his name to two
continents. This exhibit consists of eight original maps depicting
Columbus’s and Vespucci’s voyages, as well as four
facsimiles of historically important maps from the early and
mid-1500s, including the famous 1507 World map by Martin
Waldseemuller, where the name, “America,” was mentioned
for the first time.
September 20, 2012 - October 31, 2012 - Ann Arbor
Travel,
an essential activity of human societies, has evolved into an
industry with social, economic and environmental impacts. From
pilgrimage and exploration to trade and tourism, advances in
transportation have enabled new types of travel and created new
places, some existing solely for the vacationer. Travel Through
Maps and Narrative: An Exhibition on Travel and Tourism
highlights changes in travel including information on early
pilgrimages, exploration narratives, the grand tour of Europe, women
travellers, World’s Fairs, the birth of the family vacation and
specialized tourism using maps and narratives from the Library
collections. Exhibit can be seen at Hatcher Graduate Library, Clark
Library, Second Floor, University of Michigan.
October 2010 – November 2012 - Newton,
Massachusetts
Historic Newton's Jackson Homestead and Museum,
527 Washington Street, has opened its newest exhibit, Mapping A
New Town: 1714-1874. The exhibit traces the evolution of map
development in the city. Newton's earliest map, begun in 1714, shows
details that are not clearly understood, but over time, the maps
become more descriptive and show elements of the physical landscape
that give shape and character to the emerging town. With each map and
in each era, there is a unique sense of place as Newton evolves from
a rural farming community bounded by the Charles River to a lively
suburb, stimulated by the opening of the first steam railroad in
Massachusetts, and, by 1874, a new political entity celebrated as the
"Garden City" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Newton
takes shape on rare maps and is seen in prints, photographs, and a
fine landscape painting, "The Great Curve on the Boston and
Worcester Railroad at Newton Lower Falls," is on loan from a
private collection. The Jackson Homestead and Museum, part of
Historic Newton, is open from Tuesday to Friday from 11 am to 5 pm,
and on Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon to 5 pm. For more information
call 617-796-1450.
November 8, 2011 – November 4, 2012 - Los Angeles
Tracing
the growth of Los Angeles, the nation’s second largest city, is
the topic of the new exhibit, As the City Grew: Historical Maps of
Los Angeles, on display at the Central Library, First Floor
Galleries, 630 W. Fifth St., downtown. The 34 historical maps in the
exhibition are from the Los Angeles Public Library’s
100-year-old map collection, which contains more than 100,000 items
and represents local, national and international cartography. It is
one of the largest collections owned by a public library in the U.S.
and is noted for materials relating to Los Angeles and the West
including historical topographical maps, road maps, street guides,
and fire insurance atlases.
September 13, 2012 – November 5, 2012 – Paris
The
Bibliothèque nationale de France / Institut National
d’Histoire de l’Art, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne,
will have an exhibition of Maps and Plans of Algeria from its
collection. For additional information contact cartes.plans@bnf.fr.
April 12, 2012 - November 10, 2012 – Boston
America
Votes: Mapping the Political Landscape is on display in the
Norman B. Leavenworth Map Center Gallery on the ground floor of the
Boston Public Library at Copley Square. It includes approximately 30
maps, political cartoons, photographs and other graphic images dating
from the 1780s to the present. With each election Americans have
become accustomed to seeing national maps colored red and blue
signifying Republican and Democratic voting patterns. Presenting
election results has long intrigued mapmakers as the maps and
graphics in this exhibition reveal. Examples range from several early
efforts to the most recent campaigns. The display also features the
original Gerrymander cartoon published in the Boston Gazette, March
26, 1812, and includes maps illustrating the extension of the vote to
non-property owners, blacks, and women. These issues are represented
in several examples that also show the importance of the states as
the proxy for the voice of the people they represented. Efforts to
legislate behavior, such as prohibition, were another aspect of
mapping the political landscape.
September 28, 2012 - November 11, 2012 - St. Wendel,
Germany
Kartenausstellung Hellwig can be seen at
Stadtmuseum St. Wendel / Stiftung Dr. Walter Bruch, Mia-Münster-Haus,
In der Mott (Lieferanschrift: Wilhelmstraße 11). A set of maps
and plans from the Fritz Hellwig collection. Fritz Hellwig was a
member of the Bundestag and a top international official. The
collection covers the Lotharingian space (Lorraine, Alsace,
Rhineland, Palatinate). You can see the Lorraine and the Saar, which
were part of the Kingdom of France (enclave of Saarlouis, Provost
Wallerfangen) and of the French Empire (departments of Moselle and
Sarre), from 1513 to 1919.
May 19, 2012 – November 30, 2012 – Hanoi
An
exhibition entitled Vietnam's Maritime Cultural Heritage, aims
at introducing facets of the country's seas and islands and aspects
of trade between East and West can be seen at the National Museum of
History, 25 Tong Dan Street. The display is arranged into categories
ranging from prehistoric times to the 10th century, from the 11th
century BC to the 18th century and from the 19th century to the
modern age. Documents, maps, photographs and artifacts displayed in
the exhibit support and reaffirm Vietnam's sovereignty in the East
Sea. The worldwide voyages of European overseas exploration and
discovery vessels gave rise to a great "commercial revolution"
in Western Europe. This led to the creation of new maritime trading
networks linking the regions of the East Sea to other lands and
continents. In this period, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch,
English, French and other traders became directly involved in trade
with Dai Viet. In response, the domains of the Trinh Lords (in the
north of Vietnam) and the Nguyen Lords (in the south of Vietnam) were
opened and integrated strongly into this system.
October 18, 2012 - December 1, 2012 - Makati City,
Philippines
The Yuchengco Museum, RCBC Plaza, Corner Ayala and
Senator Gil J. Puyat Avenues, will open an exhibit on The British
Occupation of Manila and Cavite 1762-1764, which marks the 250th
anniversary of the British Occupation of Manila. This is the
Philippine Map Collectors Society’s second exhibit at the
Yuchengco Museum. Curated by Maria Isabel Ongpin and Jonathan Best,
the exhibit features 18th-century maps, prints, and rare books
relating to the British Occupation. The exhibit also explores the
circumstances, the key players, and the legacy of this little-known
event in Philippine history.
March 5, 2012 – December 2, 2012 – Duisburg
The
Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum, Johannes-Corputius-Platz 1,
will have a special exhibition on honor of the 500th birthday of
Gerhard Mercator. Featured will be globes and a selection of
maps and atlases by Gerhard Mercator, who was born in 1512 in
Rupelmonde and lived in Duisburg from 1552.
June 6, 2012 - December 13, 2012 – Einsiedeln,
Switzerland
Maps and Plans in the Einsiedeln Monastery
Archive can be seen in the Einsiedeln Abbey Library. Public tours
are 6 June, 7 July, 8 August 3, October, 3 November, 5 December -
Meeting point: 14.00 and 15.00 clock in front of the monastery
church. Guided group tours can be arranged on other days on the web
page.
November 13, 2012 - December 14, 2012 - Gainesville,
Florida
The George A. Smathers Libraries will present
Imagining Jerusalem to coincide with the Jewish festival of
Hanukkah. Imagining Jerusalem showcases antique maps, historic
photographs and rare books depicting, idealizing and imagining the
Holy City of Jerusalem. The exhibition, in Smathers Library (East)
Gallery (second floor), is a collaborative effort between the Map and
Imagery Library and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the
University of Florida. It marks the 20th anniversary of an important
donation of antique Holy Land maps by James C. and Adina P. Simmons
of Tel-Aviv, Israel, and Tallahassee, Florida.
September 14, 2012 - December 30, 2012 - Ilwaco, Washington
The
Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum, like most historic collections, has
many maps in its collection. The types of maps at the museum reflect
the ways of life of the particular place. Few regions in the country
have maps of shipwrecks and even fewer have maps of oyster beds and
fish traps. Fire insurance maps are valuable historical documents
that tell researchers where buildings and homes were located at the
time the maps were drafted. The exhibition You Are Here! Maps from
the Collection will highlight maps of all sorts, from the early
plat maps of Whealdonburg (now Ilwaco) and Ocean Park to navigational
charts of Baker Bay and the Columbia River and land maps of railways,
roads and even hiking trails. In addition to local maps, the
exhibition will include map-making and surveying tools that played an
important role in mapping the region. The Columbia Pacific Heritage
Museum is located at 115 S.E. Lake St. and is open from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays.
September 17, 2011 – December 31, 2012 -
Rochetaillée-sur-Saône (near Lyon), France
Voyages
à la Carte [Road map panorama] can be seen at Musée
Henri Malartre, 645, rue du Musée. From the many facets of the
road map world, the museum has chosen to present a general history of
French road maps from when they were first published up to the
present day. Also an illustration, by means of a chronological set of
maps, of the development of infrastructure and of communication
networks (road, rail, river, air) of the same geographical area.
December 1, 2011 − December 31, 2012 –
Edinburgh
John Slezer was an ordnance engineer of German
origin who came to Scotland in 1669 to survey fortifications and
defences and draw up military plans for the Army. The government of
that era took map-making very seriously: the documentation of the
British Isles meant having the power to challenge rebellion or
invasion. In fact, the Ordnance Survey maps so beloved of hill
walkers today have their origins in those maps used by the military
as tools of war, and formerly stored in the Tower of London. During a
20-year period Slezer created maps and drawings which were both
visually and historically compelling. His book "Theatrum
Scotiae" contains the earliest comprehensive mappings and views
of Scotland. It is a fascinating and detailed record of the built
landscape at that time. A Survey of Scotland is an exhibition
of maps by John Slezer at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The
Scottish National Portrait Gallery is five minutes’ walk from
Princes Street on Queen Street (round the corner from Harvey
Nichols).
February 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012 – Plymouth,
Massachusetts
Written, Printed and Drawn: Rarities from
Plymouth's Past is a special exhibition of the archival
documents, rare books and maps from the collections of Pilgrim Hall
Museum, 75 Court St. Given the fragile nature of many pieces, they
will only be displayed for a term of three and a half months before
being replaced by other documents, rare books and maps. This is done
for preservation purposes (reducing exposure to light) and to show
some of the highlights from the library and archives collections.
Over the course of the exhibit, 18 documents, five maps and 15 rare
books will be displayed. For information call 508-746-1620. Hours are
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. seven days a week.
September 13, 2012 -December 31, 2012 - Mafra, Portugal
Maps
in the Palace: Printed Cartography in the Mafra Library is the
title of the exhibition that will in the rooms adjacent to the
Library of the Mafra Palace. This exhibit is organized in connection
with the 4th Iberian-American Conference on the History of
Cartography, an event held at the National Library of Portugal. About
40 maps taken from an exceptionally rich collection of 30.000 volumes
have been selected to be put on display in the Baroque library rooms
of the Mafra Palace, a unique setting representing the only library
of this kind created in the 18th century that still remains in its
original place today. The presented works have been taken from
shelves dedicated to subjects such as Geography & Travels and
Astronomy & Mathematical Treatises. They document the
theoretical, technical and artistic progress underlying the
cartographic representation of the world following the Iberian
exploratory activities of the Early Modern period. Ranging from
Lisbon to Japan, Africa and the Americas, we show maps of different
scales representing city plans, views, topographic profiles and plans
of fortifications included in books from the 16th to the 19th
centuries. Special emphasis is placed on items documenting the
improvements of printing techniques in the 18th century during the
period of Enlightenment that saw the original establishment of the
Mafra Library.
October 9, 2012 - December 31, 2012 - Auburn, New York
If
you ever need to stop and ask for directions, head to the Cayuga
Museum, 203 Cayuga St. Its new exhibit, You Are Here! Putting
Auburn on the Map: Maps and Map Making in Cayuga County, is a
centuries-spanning celebration of cartography, a sprawl of legends,
quadrants and landmarks. The first gallery features North American
maps from as early as the 1600s. The second gallery moves toward the
post-Revolutionary War period, when veterans were compensated with
land bounties across central and western New York. The museum is
showcasing a 12-foot-tall map from one of the area's surveyors, Col.
John L. Hardenbergh, whose survey book is also featured in "You
Are Here!" A collection of specialized maps occupy the final
gallery. A romance map depicts historical happenings in the Finger
Lakes, an industrial map chronicles where airplanes, school buses and
other items were manufactured locally, and climate and soil maps
present a more scientific vision of the area.
November 6, 2012 - December 31,
2012 - Waco, Texas
If Jacob Raphael De Cordova had his way,
the dateline for this story would be “Lamartine” and not
“Waco.” But rather than being named for a French poet and
statesman, the city on the Brazos is named for the Native American
tribe that once dwelt here. De Cordova (1808-68), a Texas land agent
and colonizer, was one of the men who laid out what later became
known as Waco Village from 1848-49. Town lots of an acre sold for $5
to $10, and nearby agricultural holdings brought up to $3 per acre.
At the urging of his wife, Rebecca, De Cordova reserved free sites
for schools, churches and community commons. Mapping Waco: A Brief
History, 1845-1913, presented by The Texas Collection and the
Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections, marks this heritage
with a joint exhibit at the Carroll Library and online. Through the
cartographers’ art, visitors can chart the changing landscape
of the city from its earliest existence in the mid-1800s as a trading
post to the boom years of the early 20th century, when the city
“reached for the sky” in towers of concrete and steel.
The maps are on display at The Texas Collection within Carroll
Library, Baylor University, which is open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
February 28, 2012 – December 2012 – Dublin
Powdered
earthworms and lots of white wine: that’s the 17th century cure
for piles on display, along with other science-related documents at
Particles of the Past, an exhibition launched at the National
Library of Ireland, Kildare Street. As part of the Dublin City of
Science 2012, the exhibit brings together a set of unusual historical
documents – carefully restored maps, a recipe for making ice
cream in a bucket, a journal from the voyages of Captain Cook, among
others – all tied together by the theme of science.
March, 2012 – December 2012 – Chicago
Chinatown
Centennial 2012 is an exhibition of maps, photographs and
artifacts that tell the story of the past century of the Chinese in
Chicago. It is on display at the Chinese-American Museum of Chicago,
238 West 23rd Street.
April 30, 2012 - December 2012 - Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
Louisiana State Bicentennial: Celebrating 200
Years in Maps can be seen at CARTE Museum, 2347 Christian St. The
museum is a non-profit endeavor, which means there is no admission
charged. The exhibits are from rare maps in Dave Morgan's (CARTE
Museum founder and director) own personal collection. For the
upcoming bicentennial exhibit, Morgan is mounting about 55 maps that
tell the story of how Louisiana was formed from the original
territory to the present. The Museum is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays
and by appointment on other days. For additional information contact
(225) 387-6119.