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June 19, 2015 - January 3, 2016 - Columbia, South Carolina
If
World War I is synonymous with one thing it is trenches. Trench
Maps: Military Cartography on the Western Front, 1914-1918
features 19 original maps from World War I. The exhibit focuses on
the development of trench maps throughout the war and why they were
so vital to troops fighting on both sides of the conflict. In
addition to the unique maps, artifacts also include artillery
ammunition, field equipment, a French artillery uniform and
photographs. Exhibit can be seen in the S.C. Confederate relic Room
and Military Museum, 301 Gervais St. (in the same building as the SC
State Museum).
July 5, 2015 - January 3, 2016 - Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island
This year marks the 250th anniversary of Samuel
Holland’s famous map of Prince Edward Island. The map had to be
as accurate as it was because it was going to be used as the basis
for legal documents; there were going to be deeds spun off of it. The
map was purely an instrument so that lots could be granted in the
land lottery of 1767. The map was sent to London in 1765 and it now
belongs to to the British National Archives in Kew. In recognition of
the 250th anniversary the map is now on loan to the exhibition
Imperial Designs: Samuel Holland's 1765 Map and the Making of
Prince Edward Island at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, 130
Queen Street.
October 2, 2015 - January 9, 2016 – Boston
As the
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, approaches
its 225th year, Terra Firma: The Beginnings of the Massachusetts
Historical Society Map Collection celebrates the beginnings of
one of its most diverse and interesting collections. Among the maps
on display are landmarks of map publishing that include the first
published map of New England, the first map of Massachusetts
published in America, and a unique copy of the earliest separate map
of Vermont, as well as maps of important battles and maps and atlases
from the United States and beyond.
October 16, 2015 – January 10, 2016 – Tacoma,
Washington
When James Cook set out from Plymouth, England, on
July 11, 1776, he was probably the most famous sailor in the world.
He had already commanded two epochal expeditions that mapped the
South Pacific, surveying Australia, New Zealand and the coast of
Antarctica. In search of a northern shipping route between the
Atlantic Ocean and Great South Sea, now known as the Pacific, Cook
sailed past the Kenai Peninsula and came to a dead end at the place
where Anchorage would someday rise above the mudflats. Then he went
to his cabin and, quill in hand, made notes of what he had seen in
his journal. Cook carefully charted more than 2,000 miles of Alaska
coastline, from southeast to the Aleutians and northward past the
Arctic Circle. Major features that he literally put on the map
include Norton Sound, Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet. Arctic
Ambitions: Captain Cook And The Northwest Passage is
an exhibit which includes Cook's sextant, telescope, journal, maps,
historic items and interactive displays at the
Washington State Historical Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave.
August 17, 2015 - January 14, 2016 - Tucson, Arizona
Tucson's
240th birthday is approaching, and you should head to this new
exhibit with historic photos, maps and memorabilia of the Old Pueblo
to celebrate it. The University of Arizona Libraries' Special
Collections Gallery, 1510 E. University Blvd., is hosting Tucson:
Growth, Change and Memories with the purpose of showcasing the
city's history and growth as an urban community.
October 19, 2015 – January 19, 2016 – Cape
Town
Cape Town, as South
Africa's oldest city, has long been associated with maps of Africa.
The Cape first appeared on early Portuguese maps of Africa as “Cabo
de Boa Esperança”
and in the 17th and 18th centuries it was the main center of of the
Dutch settlement which was frequently mapped by Dutch and French
cartographers. A
Selection of Maps @ the National Library of South Africa,
5
Queen Victoria Street, will feature these early maps as well as some
19th century maps. The maps can be seen in special collections and
the red space.
January 14-24, 2016 – Oxford
Maps of Oxford
is a small display that includes the earliest surviving map of Oxford
to celebrate the publication of the 'An Historical Map of Oxford from
Medieval to Victorian Times'. Exhibit is in Proscholium, Bodleian
Library.
October 9, 2015 - January 31, 2016 – Oxford
Handwritten
in stone : how William Smith and his maps changed geology can be
seen at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road. See
the dazzling colours of the first geological map of England and Wales
in this exhibition celebrating William Smith's 200-year-old
breakthrough work. William Smith spent his childhood collecting
fossils, and his career travelling the country as a surveyor. But how
did he make the leap to representing the Earth's three-dimensional
rocky layers, or strata, so vividly on a two-dimensional map? With
rare maps, personal papers, fossils and tools, this exhibition
explores the work and life of Smith, the 'father of stratigraphy' -
and examines how Smith still influences geologists today as they
unlock the Earth's secrets. Open daily, 10am-5pm: Admission Free.
December 2015 - January 31, 2016 – Minneapolis
The
Rudimentum Novitiorum has been added to the James Ford Bell
Library collection, a generous gift from the James Ford Bell Trust.
First printed in Lübeck in 1475, this basic chronicle of the
world, steeped in Christian history, includes two woodcut maps,
believed to be the first printed maps of their kind in Western
Europe: a map of the Holy Land and a map of the world. It is a
forerunner of the more widely known Nuremberg Chronicle. This special
acquisition will be on exhibit in the Bell Room at the Library, 309
19th Ave. S.
February 4-7, 2016 - Ninove, Belgium
We are glad to
announce a short but interesting exhibition in Ninove where two
recently restored 17th century manuscript maps from the city archives
are presented. Besides, maps of Van Deventer, Horenbault, Chamlay,
Villaret, Frickx, Leclerc, Sanderus, Ferraris, Vandermaelen and Popp
will be exhibited. The exhibit Kijk op de kaart [Look on the map]
can be seen at Oud Stadhuis, Oudstrijdersplein 6 from 10 AM-5 PM.
November 13, 2015 - February 12, 2016 - Des Moines, Iowa
The
Anderson Gallery, 2505 Carpenter Ave., will open a major new
exhibition titled Are We Global Yet? The Art and Politics of
Public Space (including the virtual), curated by professor Lenore
Metrick-Chen and students from her curatorial capstone seminar. The
exhibition brings together historical maps, student collaborations
with homeless individuals in the community, and contemporary artwork
from more than 15 artists to ask the question, “Are we global
yet?” One group of students met with a collector from Iowa City
who owns more than 50 maps dating from the mid-1500s to the early
1900s. The students were able to explore the political and social
concerns expressed in these centuries-old maps, several of which will
be displayed in the gallery.
May 30, 2015 - February 14, 2016 - St. Louis, Missouri
What
was life in St. Louis like in the late 1800s? Find out the fun way by
exploring the new exhibit, A Walk in 1875 St. Louis, on
display at the Missouri History Museum, Lindell and DeBaliviere in
Forest Park. This free, 6,000-square-foot exhibition is based on a
detailed bird's-eye map of St. Louis. When viewed in its entirety,
the map spans eight feet in height by 24 feet in length. It was begun
in 1874 by draftsman Camille N. Dry, and published in book form in
1876 by sheet music publisher Richard Compton. A Walk in 1875 St.
Louis also has interactive opportunities that encourage visitors
to dive into the history of the city. There are separate maps for
individual neighborhoods with panels that point out what's changed.
The map of Tower Grove Park, for instance, has intricate drawings of
each of the pavilions that still stand today.
January 11, 2016 – February 19, 2016 - Lille, France
As
part of the cycle 'The map invents the world', the exhibition La
carte, miroir des hommes, miroir du monde [Map, mirror of men, mirror
of the world] presents maps, atlases and scientific instruments,
from Dutch cartographers of the 16th and 17th centuries, until the
new techniques of digital mapping. Exhibition can be seen at
Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies, Cité
Scientifique, Villeneuve d'Ascq (Metro : Cité Scientifique).
For booking and information contact alicia.zasso(at)univ- lille1.fr
or tel. +33 3 20 33 77 17. Time schedule: Monday to Thursday from
9.00 to 18.00 and Friday from 9.00 to 13.00, guided tours of one
hour.
November 28, 2015 - February 20, 2016 - Peterhead, Scotland
The
Arbuthnot Museum, St. Peter Street, currently showing an exciting
exhibition of maps by James Robertson (1753-1829), the Shetlander
who mapped Jamaica and Aberdeenshire. Robertson went to the
Caribbean to make his fortune and became an expert in land surveying,
producing remarkably accurate maps of Jamaica in 1804. In 1810 he was
commissioned to survey and draw a new map of Aberdeenshire and
Banffshire. This map and Robertson’s four maps of Jamaica are
on loan to the exhibition from the National Library of Scotland.
September 26, 2015 - February 28, 2016 – Cardiff
When
the industrial revolution was in full swing, the demand for coal,
iron and limestone was huge. William Smith, a blacksmith’s son
from Oxfordshire, realised that a map showing where different rock
layers (strata) came to the surface would be of great value. 200
years later, Smith’s beautifully hand-coloured maps are icons
in the world of geology. Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales,
holds more original versions of these huge, spectacular maps than any
other public institution in the world. Three different editions are
fully displayed in the exhibition Reading the Rocks: the
Remarkable Maps of William Smith along with unique documents and
smaller maps, all depicting the story of Smith’s life and work.
November 3, 2015 - February 28, 2016 – Boston
Collecting
For The Boston Athenæum In The 21st Century: Maps, Charts, &
Plans can be seen at the Boston Athenæum, 10½ Beacon
Street. The exhibition will show maps and charts from its rich
cartographic collection. Those on exhibition will date from the
seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Most of these materials have
been acquired since 2004; and therefore, are relatively recent
additions to our collection. Some of the highlights will include a
very scarce chart of Casco Bay by J.F.W. DesBarres, a rare French
edition of a classic map of the Americas by Petrus Bertius, published
in the mid-seventeenth century, and a beautiful example of one of the
earliest charts to focus on the New England coastline by J. van
Keulen.
November 25, 2015 – February 28, 2016 -
Wusterhausen/Dosse, Germany
The increased incidence of
infectious diseases makes it necessary to determine the cause as
quickly as possible. Maps were and are a key tool for the
investigation of disease and for informing the public, because they
show at a glance how many people are ill and where the disease has
spread. Moreover, maps are also the starting point for further
questions: Why is only a certain area affected and where did the
outbreak begin. Dedicated to this topic for the first time, an
exhibition has been jointly organized by the Lower Saxony State
Health Department, the German Society for Cartography and the Berlin
State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage. Den Seuchen auf der
Spur – 200 Jahre Infektionskrankheiten im Kartenbild [The
plagues on the trail - 200 years of infectious diseases on the map]
includes 25 pieces from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Eleven
selected map examples are presented in detail in an accompanying
brochure and explained. Exhibition can be been at Wegemuseum, Am
Markt 3.
November 19, 2015 - March 12, 2016 - Portland, Maine
This
fall, the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic
Education, 314 Forest Avenue, will close its 20th-anniversary with a
showcase of its finest maps and globes; Masterpieces at USM:
Celebrating Five Centuries of Rare Maps and Globes. Curated by
the Osher Map Library staff and some of Maine's very own luminaries,
including renowned authors Susan Minot and Monica Wood as well as
Senator Angus King, Senator Susan Collins and Congresswoman Chellie
Pingree, among others, this engaging exhibit highlights masterpieces
from Osher Map Library collections. Featuring monumental pieces of
cartographic history from around the world, ranging from the first
modern printed map in 1475 to superb examples of woodcut,
copperplate, and lithographic map printing from the 15th through the
19th centuries.
October 31, 2015 – March 27, 2016 – Boston
The
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston Street, presents Women
in Cartography. This
exhibition recognizes and celebrates the long overlooked role of
women in the world of mapping; bringing their stories,
accomplishments, and most importantly their maps to light. Curated by
Alice Hudson, former Chief of the Map Division at the New York Public
Library, Women in
Cartography showcases
the works of better-known women cartographers such as Marie Tharp,
who, in partnership with Bruce Heezen, created the first scientific
map of the entire ocean floor, and, Agnes Sinclair Holbrook who
created the Hull-House maps, statistical cartographic presentations
of social data from the immigrant rich Near West Side neighborhoods
of Chicago.
October 6, 2015 – March 31, 2016 – Madrid
Hispaniae
Geologica Chartographia La representación geológica de
España a través de la Historia [The geological
representation of Spain through history] is on display at
Instituto Geológico
y Minero de España,
Ríos Rosas, 23. This exhibition brings together a selection of
maps that reflect the evolution of geological mapping in Spain, which
responds to the advancement of scientific and cultural knowledge of
the country and the concerns and needs of society. From the first
graphical representations of more than 3,000 years ago to the current
maps, geological mapping has been an essential tool for humans. Each
of the 40 selected geological maps marked a milestone at the time.
November 2, 2015 - March 31, 2016 - Clermont-Ferrand,
France
The celebration of the centenary of the Great War is an
opportunity to discover or rediscover the war that deeply shocked the
world at the beginning of the twentieth century. For this occasion,
the Clermont University Library and Map Library Department joined
forces to highlight different topographic maps of that period from
the collections of the University. Des Cartes Pour Faire La Guerre
can be seen at BCU Lettres et Sciences Humaines Lafayette, 1er étage
(Salle Massillon), 1, Bd Lafayette. Indeed, the need for good quality
and reliable maps is required by the military which is forced to
adapt to the topography of the land of the enemy. Thus the role of
topographic maps is far from minor in armed conflict.
April 1, 2014 - April 2, 2016 – Amsterdam
The
exhibition entitled The Atlases includes the top pieces from
The National Maritime Museum's extensive collection of maps and
atlases, and can be seen at Het Scheepvaartmuseum [The National
Maritime Museum], Kattenburgerplein 1. Get acquainted with the four
pioneers of cartography: Ptolemy, Mercator, Claesz, and Blaeu. These
mapmakers and publishers produced maps and atlases that forever
changed how we see the world. Your journey shows you the first maps
of America, via the ‘Unknown land of the South,’ to a
detailed city map of Amsterdam. The maps and atlases, produced
between 1482 and 1665, are unique historical documents, and a feast
for the eye with their rich decorations.
January 16, 2016 - April 2, 2016 - Indianapolis
Visit
the Rosemary McKee Lanham Gallery at the History Center, 450 West
Ohio Street, to enjoy the museum’s newest exhibition, Mapping
Indiana: Five Centuries of Treasures from the Indiana Historical
Society. Featuring several original – and some never before
seen – pieces from our collection, Mapping Indiana
explores the ways we think about maps, how we use them and how they
have helped to shape Indiana. Maps are themed to explore from the
earliest understandings of the area’s geography through the
mid-20th century. The exhibit, for map lovers of all ages, also
features information on Hoosier mapmakers and their lives.
February 16, 2016 - April 4, 2016 – Istanbul
In
honor of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli, an
exhibition titled Gallipoli in the Great War and its Heritage
has been organized by the Istanbul Şehir University Department
of History. Curated by a faculty member of the university's history
department, assistant professors Kahraman Şakul and Sinan Ceco,
the exhibition features unique pieces of history; namely, maps
engraved with historical depictions of the Battle of Gallipoli,
various objects and paintings, original documents, propagandized
postcards, photographs, books, newspapers and magazines related to
the battle as well as a screening of an anthology of films and
documentaries and old films featuring propaganda regarding the Battle
of Gallipoli.
October 28, 2015 - April 10, 2016 – Basel
Basel
im Stadtportrait – 400 Jahre Merianplan 1615–2015 [Basel
city Portrait - 400 years Merian plan from 1615 to 2015] is a
special exhibition at the Museum Kleines Klingental, Unterer Rheinweg
26. 400 years ago Matthäus Merian handed the Basel Council a
bird's eye view of the city. It showed for the first time a true
reflection of the characteristic medieval buildings which had been
defined by the city walls. Today it serves as an indispensable source
of local history. The exhibition sheds light on Merian's models and
operations as well as on how Merian has influenced the later views of
the city - to the modern, geo-referenced survey.
March 16, 2016 - April 25, 2016 – Riga
Uninterrupted
Line: The Latvian Border in Maps can be seen in the National
Library of Latvia, Mūkusalas iela 3. The exhibit uses maps from
the library's archives to relate the history of how Latvia's borders
were shaped. The exhibit traces - with copious descriptions in
English - how Latvia gained its current topographical shape starting
from the time when Latvia first appeared in maps up to the time that
shaped Latvia's current contour in the map. Latvia's maps from the
archives of the library are accompanied with drawings of Māris
Bišofs and a film by Laila Pakalniņa. It's open on the
ground floor of the Library, exhibit halls 2 and 3. Entrance is free.
April 10-27, 2016 - Sharjah, UAE
Rare manuscripts of
historical significance to many countries and kingdoms around the
world are now on display in the UAE for the first time at Seraj Al
Hadarat, an exhibition organised by Sharjah Book Authority. The
exhibition, which translates to ‘Light of Civilisations’,
showcases documents dating back to the 16th century from countries
that were in the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France, The Netherlands,
Italy and Iran. The collection includes books, manuscripts, maps,
pictures and paintings. Those with an interest in cartography will be
impressed with Siraj Al Hadarat’s valuable collection of
original maps, including a hand-coloured map of Africa with the
southern coastal line that dates to 1690. Other maps on display
include one of the Ottoman Empire that shows the Ottoman areas in the
Balkans, Anatolia, the Levant, Arabian Peninsula and North Africa,
which dates to 1630. Another map of the Middle East at the exhibition
was first issued in the book ‘Geography’, which was
released by Mercator in 1695 and based on the work of the astronomer
Ptolemy. The first of two maps detailing the Arabian Peninsula at the
exhibition dates to 1720 and includes details of the trade routes to
Makkah and Medina via the Ottoman Empire, with the second a manually
engraved and decorated version, which dates to 1851.
January 20, 2016 - May 2, 2016 – Marseille
Made
in Algeria, Genealogy of a Territory is organized by Museum of
European and Mediterranean Civilizations, 7 Promenade Robert Laffont.
This first exhibition dedicated to cartography is organized in
collaboration with the National Institute of Art History (INHA) and
the National Library of France (BNF) with support of the French
Ministry of Culture. The event will highlight "the map invention
that accompanied the 'conquest' of Algeria and its description."
A series of maps, drawings, paintings, photographs, films and
historical documents as well as works by contemporary artists will be
presented at this exhibition.
March 4, 2016 - May 8, 2016 - San Francisco
A major
exhibition, China at the Center: Rare Ricci and Verbiest World
Maps, showcasing two rare and famous world maps produced in 17th
century China by Jesuit missionaries can be seen at San Francisco
Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St. The first is Matteo Ricci’s
1602 Kunyu wanguo quantu (“Map of the Myriad Countries”
or “Mappamondo”), a map so rare that it is called “The
Impossible Black Tulip” (on loan from the James Ford Bell
Library at the University of Minnesota). The second is the Kunyu
quantu (“The Complete Map of the World”), Ferdinand
Verbiest’s world map of 1674 (on loan from the Library of
Congress). These are the first Chinese maps to show the Americas, the
Polar regions, and the western shores of Europe and Africa, and
include explanations of natural and astronomical phenomena. This is
the first time that both of these seminal maps have been displayed
together. Also on display are rare books and atlases associated with
these maps and the 16-18th century Jesuit mission to China. The
exhibition is presented by the San Francisco Asian Art Museum in
partnership with the University of San Francisco Ricci Institute.
December 17, 2015 - May 22, 2016 – Madrid
The
Naval Museum, Paseo del Prado 5, has opened an exhibition on maritime
cartography entitled Señores del mar, dueños del
mundo that has been curated by Jose Maria Moreno Martin. On
display are maps relating to history of cartography, Portolan charts,
19th century cartography and the influence of Flamenco on 17th
century cartography.
January 2, 2016 - May 22, 2016 – Canberra
Experience
300 years of Chinese culture and tradition from two of the world’s
great libraries. The National Library of Australia, in partnership
with the National Library of China, will exhibit Celestial Empire:
Life in China, 1644-1911. From life at court to life in the
villages and fields, glimpse the world of China’s last imperial
dynasty and its wealth of cultural tradition. See exquisite and
precious objects from the National Library of China. Marvel at
drawings and plans for Beijing’s iconic palaces from the
Yangshi Lei Archives, listed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World
Register in 2007 and never before seen in Australia. Beautiful maps,
books and prints come alive in ornate detail. Discover our acclaimed
Chinese Collection, including rare items from the London Missionary
Society that offer a unique view of early western impressions of
China.
January 29, 2016 - May 22, 2016 - Valletta, Malta
The
exhibition Siege Maps: Keeping Memory Safe can be seen in the
National Museum of Fine Arts located at the Admiralty House on South
Street. The exhibition presents four maps of the Great Siege of 1565
by Giovanni Francesco Camocio, a thriving publisher and dealer of
maps, prints and books. Distributed far and wide, these news maps
were once the most effective means of reporting the latest
developments of the Siege. Today, now part of our cultural heritage,
they hold the collective memory of a lost cultural landscape, a
historic past and a turning point of an event that shaped the history
of the Maltese Islands.
March 26, 2016 - May 22, 2016 - Warkworth, Ontario
The
Miikaans/The Percy Portage exhibit can be seen at the Ah! Arts
and Heritage Centre, 35 Church St. The exhibit includes historic maps
and more about a route that many local folks still don’t know
is a part of the history of this region. Miikaans is the Ojibway word
for trail or path. The Percy Portage was an important route used for
centuries by the Mississaugas, Huron and Iroquois First Nations. It
also formed the basis of the first major road in the region in the
early 19th century for local settlers, and those heading north. The
museum is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
May 5-26, 2016 - Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
An
11x5-meter drawing of northeastern Japan in the mid-17th century is
among 23 old maps on display at a rare exhibition in the Chido
Museum, 10-18, Ienakashinmachi. It is a copy of the Dewa Ikkoku no
Ezu picture map, which was jointly compiled by feudal domains
controlling the region stretching from today’s Yamagata
Prefecture to neighboring Akita Prefecture. The replica, which is
believed to be several centuries old and is the largest on display,
belonged to the Shonai domain established in the early Edo Period
(1603-1867). Based in Tsuruoka, the domain controlled a large part of
what is now Yamagata Prefecture.
March 30, 2016 – May 22, 2016 - San Francisco
Mapping
“The East”: Envisioning Asia in the Age of Exploration
is an exhibition of more than 20 early maps and books of Asia
produced by European cartographers during the 16th-18th centuries.
Drawn from the collections of Sophia University, Tokyo, and the
University of San Francisco Ricci Institute, these works reflect
expanding knowledge of East Asia during the Age of Exploration, and
their makers’ European religious and philosophical
perspectives. Exhibition can be see Tues – Fri & Sun, 1:00
– 5:00PM, in Manresa Gallery in St. Ignatius Church, University
of San Francisco Main campus.
March 2016 - June 3, 2016 - New York
Central Park is one
of New York’s most iconic public spaces and has delighted the
senses of millions of visitors for over 150 years. But how well do we
really know Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s 843 acre
bucolic masterpiece? Central Park: Mapping Landscapes is a
mini exhibit of antiquarian maps from the New York Public Library,
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. Viewers can discover
how the landscape of Manhattan was transformed from hardscrabble
farmland into the most beloved and acclaimed urban park in the United
States in this exhibit in the New York Public Library, Stephen A.
Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street.
February 6, 2016 - June 5, 2016 - Davenport, Iowa
Arguably
the nation's most popular river, the mighty Mississippi is the
subject for the Figge Art Museum's new exhibit - Mississippi River
Views from the Muscatine Art Center Collection. Exhibit is in the
third-floor gallery. The exhibit features more than 60 paintings,
drawings, maps and other river-related works from the collection of
the Muscatine Art Center. Beginning with a rare map from 1680 by
Nicholaes Visscher, the exhibit includes drawings made on the river
by Seth Eastman in the 1830s, and paintings of the river from the
1850s to the present.
February 13, 2016 - June 12, 2016 – Princeton
In
1853, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, an Orthodox Jew from Charleston, South
Carolina, and the American-born son of Jews of Spanish-Portuguese
Jewish descent, threw caution to the wind and set off with famed U.S.
explorer John Fremont on his Fifth Westward Expedition. A few of
Carvalho's surviving prints of that trailblazing expedition and
several of his acclaimed paintings are among the little-known gems in
By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture
From the Nation's Founding to the Civil War, an eye-opening
exhibit at the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibit,
organized by the Princeton University Library, boasts more than 160
rarely seen books, maps, manuscripts, prints and paintings including
some of the earliest novels, plays, scientific treatises and
religious works produced by Jews in the United States.
March 12, 2016 – June 16, 2016 - Cassel, France
La
cartographie ou le miroir du monde [Mapping or the mirror of the
world] features maps of Mercator and Ortelius. Both from
Flanders, they met in 1554 and soon a friendship was born. Exhibition
can be seen at Musée départemental de Flandre, 26
Grand'Place.
April 18, 2016 - June 17, 2016 -Philadelphia
The
year 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of two of the
world's great writers: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and Miguel de
Cervantes (1547-1616). Both authors lived in the golden age of
European exploration when new discoveries were changing the way
Europe understood and represented the world. The exhibit The Stage
and All the World / Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps
juxtaposes the way exploration and geography are represented in
literature and in maps from the early modern period. Accompanying the
exhibit will be a display of the digital project Shakespeare on the
Map: www.shakespearemap.org. The exhibit can be seen in the
Snyder-Granader Alcove, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare
Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, sixth floor,
University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street. Gallery hours:
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm; Saturday and Sunday, by prior arrangement
(215.898.7088 or rbml(at)pobox.upenn.edu). Free and open to the
public (please show photo ID at entrance).
March 12, 2016 – June 18, 2016 – Dumfries,
Scotland
The Dumfries Archival Mapping Project is holding an
exhibition Amang the rigs o’ Barley”: a cartographic
tour of Nithsdale and Annandale in the 18th and early 19th century
Dumfries Museum.
June 2-25, 2016 - Newcastle upon Tyne
The Lit &
Phil, 23 Westgate Road, exhibits The Great Lines. The Great
Lines Exhibition follows the history of the creation of contour
lines on maps - often associated in the UK with Newcastle born
mathematician Charles Hutton, and his work with the Astronomer Royal,
Nevil Maskelyne on the slopes of Schiehallion in Perthshire in 1774.
The exhibition shows how the contour line and its related measures
have a much longer, richer and international history. The exhibition
includes material held in the Lit & Phil, as well as other
material from archives in the UK and abroad, telling the story of the
contour line through maps and models, artworks and books.
April 14, 2016 - June 29, 2016 –
Erfurt
Landkartenherstellung im Verlag Justus Perthes Gotha
[Map Production by Publisher Justus Perthes of Gotha] can be seen
at Druckereimuseum und Schaudepot der Museen der Stadt Erfurt,
Benary-Speicher, Brühler Str. 37.
January 28, 2016 - June 2016 - Durham, California
Old
maps are a window to the past, and a new exhibit at the Patrick Ranch
Museum, 10381 Midway, highlights several particular to Butte County.
Maps of the Past Tell our History focuses on the water, roads
and railroads which were important in the development of the County.
The map exhibit will be open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Saturday and
Sunday.
May 1, 2016 – June 30, 2016 – Denver
Illusions,
Delusions & Confusions is
an exhibit of
maps featuring myths at the main branch of the Denver Public Library,
10 W. Fourteenth Street.
May 2, 2016 – July 1, 2016 – Boulder, Colorado
Map
Myths is
an exhibit of
maps featuring map mythology at the Map Library at the University of
Colorado, Boulder.
June 14, 2016 – July 2, 2016 – Berlin
In
cooperation with the Weser Renaissance Museum Brake Castle, Lemgo,
the Map Division of Berlin State Library, Potsdamer Str. 33, has an
exhibition Weltvermesser von Erde, Meer und Himmel.
April 16, 2016 - July 10, 2016 - Bergamo, Italy
Quando
L’italia Disegnava Il Mondo. Tesori Cartografici del
Rinascimento Italiano [When Italy Drew The World. Cartographic
treasures of the Italian Renaissance] can be seen at Palazzo del
Podestà - Museo del ‘500 (Piazza Alta / Città
Alta). The exhibition is organized by the "Roberto Almagià"
along with Bergamo History Foundation and the Biblioteca Civica
Angelo Mai e Archivi Storici Comunali, in addition to the City of
Bergamo. The plan followed has been to temporarily recreate a big
"Lafreri Atlas", using maps drawn by the organizers'
collections. The result is an exhibition of 74 printed maps published
in Rome or Venice between 1525 and 1575; the heart of the "Golden
Age of the cartography of the Italian Renaissance." These maps
start from world maps, then the continents and regions of Italy,
followed by birds-eye views of Italian cities. The exhibition is
accompanied by a catalog of over 230 pages.
June 10, 2016 - July 17, 2016 - Victoria, Gozo, Malta
Currently
on display are four maps of the Great Siege of 1565 by
Giovanni Francesco Camocio, a thriving publisher and dealer of maps,
prints and books. Distributed far and wide, these news maps were once
the most effective means of reporting the latest developments of the
Siege. Today, now part of the island's cultural heritage, they hold
the collective memory of a lost cultural landscape, a historic past
and a turning point of an event that shaped the history of the
Maltese Islands. Organised by Heritage Malta as part of the Victoria
International Arts Festival, the exhibition is being hosted by
Il-Hagar Museum in St George's Square.
September 1, 2015 - July 31, 2016 - New Brunswick, New
Jersey
The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, 71 Hamilton Street, presents Simeon De Witt:
Mapping A Revolution. This exhibition celebrates one of the
university’s most distinguished alumni, Simeon De Witt, the
fourteenth graduate of what was then known as Queen’s College
and, because of the Revolutionary War, the only one in 1776. In 1802,
he drafted the first large-scale map of the state to be printed. It
was the most detailed to date - depicting newly established cities,
towns, and county lines - and distributed to salons and offices as an
accurate reference of the Empire State's geography. An 1804 version
of this map is on view, on loan from Special Collections and
University Archives at Rutgers University Libraries. The map is
accompanied by several of De Witt's original drafting tools, on loan
from the Albany Institute of History and Art, and a field compass
commonly used during the era, also from Special Collections. These
historical objects provide insight into the resources available to De
Witt at the time. Also on view are prints that depict important
battles in New Jersey during America's War for Independence,
including a map by English engraver William Faden that depicts the
positions of Washington's troops in New Jersey and Pennsylvania at
the beginning of the war.
September 20, 2015 - August 2016 - Morton Grove, Illinois
If
you have forgotten what a paper map looks like, the Morton Grove
Historical Museum, 6148-6240 W. Dempster, will have plenty on display
as part of the exhibition Morton Grove Maps. The exhibit will
be the first of its kind at the museum as a means of educating the
public about the history of the village and the reason preservation
of maps is important. Free to the public, the exhibit includes at
least a dozen original maps, in addition to some reprints and other
related artifacts. One map predates the year Morton Grove was
incorporated in 1895. The Museum is open Monday-Friday, 11:00
a.m.-3:00 p.m.; Sundays (October – May only), 2:00-4:00 p.m.
April 2, 2016 – August 28, 2016 – Boston
The
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston Street, presents From
the Sea to the Mountains: The Trustees 125th Anniversary.
In 1891 landscape architect Charles Eliot asserted the bold idea to
form an organization that would “preserve, for public use and
enjoyment, properties of exceptional scenic, historic, and ecological
value in Massachusetts.” At a time when land conservation and
‘being green’ was not widely discussed, his vision was
forward thinking. Today, the organization he founded, The Trustees of
Reservations, oversees more than 26,000 acres of preserved places
from the Atlantic Coast to the Berkshire Mountains. In celebration of
their 125th anniversary, the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the
Boston Public Library is partnering with The Trustees on a 40-item
exhibition, featuring maps, photographs, and historical items from
both collections. Visitors will be introduced to Trustees’
properties, become familiar with a number of distinctive map formats,
learn about natural landforms and geologic terms, and cultivate an
appreciation for the natural, historical, and cultural treasures of
Massachusetts.
April 19, 2016 - August 28, 2016 – Stanford,
California
Stanford University announces the opening of the
exhibition A Universe of Maps / Opening the David Rumsey Map
Center in
the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda, 2nd floor; and the David
Rumsey Map Center, 4th floor, in the Green Library, Bing Wing,
Stanford University.
June 29, 2016 - August 28, 2016 – Brooklyn
The
exhibition Unlocking Two
Revolutionary War Era Maps: The Ratzer Maps at
Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), 128 Pierrepont St, will
display two versions of the rare Revolutionary War-era “Ratzer”
map which together tell a unique story about the Battle of Brooklyn,
the first major battle of the Revolutionary War after the U.S.
declared its independence on July 4, 1776. BHS’s 1770 first
edition of Lt. Bernard Ratzer’s “Plan of the City of New
York” is one of only four first editions in existence. This map
was rediscovered at BHS in 2010 during a massive cataloging project,
and was painstakingly restored by conservator Jon Derow. It captures
New York City as a bustling commercial center surrounded by farmland
on the eve of the American Revolution. The British engineer John
Montresor began the survey a decade earlier, but it was Ratzer who
finished the work on the detailed military map. As the British turned
their attention to New York and its harbor, with access to the Hudson
River and the interior of the continent, Ratzer’s map would
become an invaluable tool in the battle for New York.
July 1, 2016 - August 31, 2016 - Prague
The exhibition
Siege Maps: Keeping Memory Safe was
prepared in cooperation of Map Collection of Charles University in
Prague and National Museum of Fine Arts in Malta. The exhibition
presents four maps of the Great Siege of Malta 1565 by Giovanni
Francesco Camocio, a thriving publisher and dealer of maps, prints
and books. Distributed far and wide, these news maps were once the
most effective means of reporting the latest developments of the
Siege. Previously the exhibition was presented in Malta and now it
can be seen in Foyer of the Map Collection, Faculty of Science of the
Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6. Czech Republic. Exhibition
will be open Monday-Friday 9 AM to 5 PM.
July-August 2016, Clyde, New York
The
Galen Historical Society, 31 N. Park St., will feature maps of the
village and area as its featured summer exhibit from 1 to 3 p.m.
Wednesdays and from 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays. The maps date
way back into the 1800s and show how the area was settled and grew.
As visitors sign in to the museum, they can pick up a written
description of each map to guide them through the exhibit. Admission
to the museum is free.
March 30, 2016 - September 4, 2016 - Cos Cob (Greenwich),
Connecticut
With 36 miles of coastline, the sea has always
played a significant role in the history of Greenwich. Since the
town’s founding in 1640, boats plying Long Island Sound were a
regular and reliable means of commercial trade and passenger
transport. Through paintings, photographs, maps, charts and
instruments, the exhibition Close to the Wind: Our Maritime
History will explore the rich history of maritime Greenwich and
share the myriad stories that link us to our coastal roots.
Exhibition is at Greenwich Historical Society, 39 Strickland Road.
July 22, 2016 - September 4, 2016 – Brussels
As
each year, the Royal Palace in Brussels, Place des
Palais/Paleizenplein, opens its doors to the public in summer. The
public will be able to discover the exposition Cartographiae
showing maps and cartography
throughout the centuries. In order to bring the intriguing and
little-known world of cartography closer to the public, the 10
federal scientific institutions of Belgium have selected a number of
representative items from their collections to show the various
aspects of this particular field of science: precious cartographic
material, thematic maps, cartographic measurement instruments, works
of art related to the topic, and much more.
April 29, 2016 - September 17, 2016 - San Antonio
The
Witte Museum and the Texas General Land Office announce a
collaborative map exhibit in the Russel Hill Rogers Texas Art Gallery
located at the Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway St. The exhibit is
entitled Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State.
Explore a stunning collection of rare Texas maps from the collections
of the Texas General Land Office, the Witte Museum and the private
collection of Carol and Frank Holcomb. See four of the original maps
used by Stephen F. Austin for his colony in what was then Mexico, as
well as a selection of rare maps dating from the 1600s to the late
1800s that reveal the shifting boundaries of Texas that affected all
maps of the United States and Mexico. The exhibition also features
important artifacts and documents relating to and complementing these
significant maps.
May 26, 2016 - September 18, 2016 - Navarra, Spain
The
National Library of Spain has loaned the Fundación Museo Jorge
Oteiza, Calle la Cuesta, 7, the fifteenth century manuscript
"Cosmographia" by Claudius Ptolemy. The work will be one of
the main pieces of the exhibition Paces de urtubia 1513. Geografía
y paisaje at the Museum. In addition to "Cosmographia",
the National Library has loaned another eight works, including,
including various maps and cartographic material as Penínsule
Hispánique (1833?), España. Suelos (1852), and Navarra.
Mapas Generales (1647).
September 1-21, 2016 – Hanoi
Exhibition
Hanoi - The Future Metropolis with
the participation of curators Sylvie Fanchette, Emmanuel Cerise, and
Amelie Codugnella will be held at L'Espace, 24 Trang Tien Street. As
one of the oldest capitals in Southeast Asia, over the centuries,
Hanoi has developed a dense network of villages. With economic
liberalisation in the 1980's, Hanoi encounters many obstacles while
extending its area such as the lack of a real land market and very
high density. Since the beginning of the new millennium, changes
operated by state planners and real estate investors caused several
concerns such as how to integrate villages during the urbanisation
process, how to maintain a green belt, as well as how to prevent
flooding effectively. From a rich collection of maps and field
studies, this exhibition shows how urbanisation has affected the
city's development.
June 24, 2016 - September 25, 2016 – Perth
Dutch
Journeys to the Western Edge can be seen in Ground Floor Gallery,
State Library of Western Australia, 25 Francis St. From Dirk Hartog’s
landing at remote Cape Inscription in 1616 to our present migrant
connections, Dutch Journeys to the Western Edge draws stories
from the collections in the State Library. Whether seeking trade,
refuge or opportunity the Dutch, like others to land on our shores,
have helped shape Western Australia. The State Library’s
exhibition looks beyond the early maritime history to include stories
of recent Dutch military history and migrant journeys to WA. The
exhibition is the State Library’s contribution to the
recognition of the 400th Anniversary of the European discovery of the
west coast of the Australian continent. Dirk Hartog landed in the
Eendracht at Cape Inscription, Shark Bay on 25 October 1616. Many
items from the State Library collection are so precious that the
Library cannot put them on public display. However, with technology,
we can bring these pieces to our audience in other ways both
physically in the exhibition and on-line through the catalogue.
May 19, 2016 - September 26, 2016 - Cambridge,
Massachusetts
The maps in the exhibition The Land Remains:
A century of conservation in America’s National Parks
showcase units of the National Park Service in all stages of their
history. Many date from before the idea of the government preserving
areas of natural beauty or cultural significance had even formed.
Many are from the first days of preservation of a site. Some show the
process of creating a park and the struggle to protect and preserve
hallowed ground while still allowing in the people for whom it is
preserved. Exhibition can be seen in Map Gallery Hall, Pusey Library,
Harvard University.
August 29, 2015 - September 30, 2016 – Riga
An
exhibition Proud and Quick. Road Maps and Culture of Automobiles
in Latvia in 1920s to 1940s can be seen in the Lobby, Maps and
Geospatial Information Reading Room, Small Prints Reading Room, Floor
6 of the National Library of Latvia, Mūkusalas iela 3.
April 7, 2016 – September 2016 - Portland, Maine
The
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, 314
Forest Avenue, will have an exhibition Pictorial Maps, curated
by Stephen Hornsby. Reflecting the exuberance of American popular
culture and the creativity of commercial art, the maps are
stimulating to the imagination and dazzling to the eye.
May 2016 - September 2016 - San Antonio
Bexar County
will have an exhibition of letters, maps and artifacts that predate
San Antonio and reveal the story behind its start. The exhibit called
Nuestra Historia will be housed at the former Federal Reserve
Building, 126 E. Nueva Street. Items that haven't been viewed for
centuries will be displayed, including a crucifix, a cannon, pottery,
other artifacts and 10 maps. Centerpiece of the exhibit is the 1717
Rebolledo letter describing the need for a settlement on the San
Antonio River, which is stored in the Bexar Archives at University of
Texas at Austin, and the coinciding map, which has been stored in the
General Archives of the Indies in Spain. It will be the first time
the two documents can be viewed together in nearly 300 years.
June 11, 2016 – October 15, 2016 – St. Louis
A
new Central Library, 1301 Olive Street, exhibit features a 75 x
25-foot map of St. Louis, illustrated by Matt Reedy. Smaller fantasy
maps are on display on the third floor in Carnegie Room. Scope out
those places at the exhibit, Fantasy
Maps: Imagined Worlds,
which shows off books that use cartography to illustrate their own
unique terrain. With a collection of novels, enlarged prints on
walls, the library displays how these images complement stories of
cities and countries. They make the fantastic more real and the real
a bit fantastic. Books, displayed in cases, range from “Treasure
Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson to George R.R. Martin’s
famous “Song of Ice and Fire” series. Stevenson’s
1883 pirate adventure was an early English novel to provide a map
with the story (the library’s copy is a reprint). Another
“older” map among the books is from a reproduction of the
1914 edition of “Tik-Tok of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, which
locates areas close to Munchkin Country. A third map important in
fantasy literature is J.R.R. Tolkien’s drawing of Middle-earth
for “The Hobbit.” Today, Martin’s blockbuster
books, filmed as “Game of Thrones” on HBO, require even
more detailed illustrations to help explain the complicated
relationships among competing lands and kingdoms. Interestingly,
Martin’s own map, where we find places such as Blazewater Bay,
Bear Island and Winterfell, differs a bit from those provided by the
makers of the TV series.
August
13, 2016 - October 16, 2016 – Toronto
Sea
monsters, invented islands, and uncharted lands - discover the
unexpected beauty of maps and atlases from the 16th to the 19th
century in the exhibition The Art of Cartography. Exhibition
can be seen in TD Gallery, Main Level, Toronto Reference Library, 789
Yonge Street.
October 10-22, 2017 – Nicosia
Opus 39 Gallery, 21
Kimonos Street, is currently hosting an exhibition on rare books,
maps, paintings and engravings from the 18th century onwards from the
private collection of Agis Philippides. The exhibition features
authentic engravings of Cyprus and Greece, maps by Abraham Ortelius,
Tomasco Porcacchi and others, and a collection of rare books,
including The Life and Works of Lord Byron with Notes and
Illustrations. Open Monday: 5pm-8pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm
and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-424983.
August 12, 2016 - October 23, 2016 - Indianola, Iowa
Antique
Iowa maps from four private collections will be featured in a new
Iowa History Center exhibit at Willis Gallery, which is in the Kent
Campus Center on the Simpson College campus, open daily from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Iowa and the Midwest: An Exhibition of Antique Maps
brings together rare and beautiful cartographic images displaying the
changing international, political and technological landscapes of
what became the American Midwest and Iowa. The maps, which date from
1715 to 1902, chart the region’s Euro-American development from
unexplored colonial territories to what is now America’s
Heartland. Maps in the exhibit are on loan from local collectors Sam
O’Brien, Jim Hubbell, David Yepsen and Bruce Kelley. For more
information, call (515)-961-1528.
October 12-24, 2016 - Bitonto BA, Italy
Bitonto is a
city and commune in the province of Bari (Apulia region), Italy. It
is nicknamed the "City of Olives", due to the numerous
groves surrounding the city. The Museo Archeologico Fondazione De
Palo Ungaro, Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 44, will display 80 maps from the
16th to 19th century, covering much of Italy but with focus on the
Apulia region. Times are 9-12.30 and 17-19.30 (every day except
Saturdays and Sundays, and open by reservation).
June 26, 2016 - October 31, 2016 - Posterstein, Germany
Hans
Wilhelm von Thümmels surveyed the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha and
Altenburg. His map series of 1813 is presented in detail at Museum
Burg Posterstein, Burgberg 1.
June 25, 2016 - November 6, 2016 – Chicago
A first
for the Art Institute of Chicago’s Japanese print gallery, 111
South Michigan Avenue, the exhibition Unique Perspectives:
Japanese Maps from the 18th and 19th Centuries showcases the
beauty of Japanese printmaking. The 18th- and 19th-century maps on
view, in gallery 107, feature the world, the Japanese archipelago,
and the country’s major cities, including Osaka, Yokohama, Edo,
Nagasaki, and Kyoto. Highlights include works from trustee Barry
MacLean’s comprehensive collection, such as a Buddhist map of
the world that translates spiritual forces into physical locations. A
blue and white “map plate,” also from the MacLean
Collection, features a relief map of Japan divided into provinces
with additional land masses and mythical locations such as “the
land of women” circling the edge of the plate. An 1861 aerial
view of Yokohama from the Art Institute’s collection is made up
of six standard-sized prints presented as one image, with important
buildings and sections of the foreign settlement labeled for ease of
use.
October 26, 2016 - November 11, 2016 – Gibraltar
Over
100 physical maps and more than 3,000 digital maps form part of a new
exhibition Mapping Our Past’ which can be seen at the
Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition put together by Government Archives
and archivist Anthony Pitaluga.
October 14, 2016 - November 27, 2016 - Fukuyama, Hiroshima
Prefecture
The discovery of a 17th century map accompanied by
color plates of people from different cultures provides an insight
into how Japanese viewed the world in the early Edo Period
(1603-1867). The discovery of the map, titled “Bankoku Sozu”
(Collective diagram of the world), and the “Sekai Jinbutsu Zu”
(Diagram of people of the world) chart was announced by the Hiroshima
Prefectural Museum of History. The two massive woodblock prints, each
measuring 134.5 centimeters tall and 57.6 centimeters wide, were
probably produced in Nagasaki in 1645, and together with another set
made in the same year are the oldest ever found in Japan. The two
prints will be exhibited at the Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of
History, 2 Chome-4-1 Nishimachi.
April 28, 2016 - November 28, 2016 – Rome
The
exhibition 1716-2016 Cielo e Terra [1716-2016 Heaven and Earth]
features Sylvester Amanzio Moroncelli's large globes of 1716 and the
cartographic collection of the Casanatense Library. The exhibition
will be at the Biblioteca Casanatense, Via S. Ignazio, 52. It is open
Monday-Friday at 11:30 to 13:30 / 16:30 to 18:00.
August 22, 2016 - December 16, 2016 - Boulder , Colorado
In
celebration of the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary on
Aug. 25, 2016, University Libraries is presenting Mapping the
Majestic: 100 Years of the National Park Service. Beginning with
famous surveyors’ maps and sketches pre-dating the
establishment of the first national parks, continuing through early
20th century proposed boundary maps, and ending with more recent
official visitor maps, the exhibit showcases a century of government
mapping. Additional tourism materials published by railroad
companies, local boosters and contemporary panoramic artists, from
the University of Colorado Map Library and Special Collections &
Archives Department, offer a complementary perspective. Exhibit
includes a genuine copper printing plate used by the U.S. Geological
Survey in the early days of their operation. Visit the Earth Sciences
& Map Library in Benson Earth Sciences on the University of
Colorado Boulder campus, 2200 Colorado Avenue, to experience the
wonder of our National Park system as visualized in maps.
October 22, 2016 – December 23, 2016 –
Oxford
Richard Hakluyt: the world in a book is an
exhibition of Elizabethan travel books and rare maps celebrating the
Oxford geographer Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616). The display will
include the famous Codex Mendoza, once owned by Hakluyt. Exhibition
can be seen in Blackwell Hall, Bodleian Library-Weston Library.
December 16-23, 2016 - Panaji, Goa
The Adil Shah Palace
or the Old Secretariat is not just a heritage building but in many
ways has become an image of Panaji’s identity. It is filled
with history, culture and speaks about the seat of power, right from
Adil Shah till recently the functioning of the State Secretariat and
State Assembly. However, over the past few years it was fading into
oblivion. But, now the structure will get a new lease of life with
the hosting of one of the biggest art festivals—Serendipity Art
Festival. Tera Cognita?: 3 Moments In The History Of The Graphic
Image In India, 1556-2016 is conceptualised as an archive
installation. The focus of this project will be the mutual gaze of
coloniser and colonised, foreigner and native, ethnographic observer
and subject of ethnographic scrutiny, artist and technician,
demonstrating the blurring of such conceptual binaries across a
period of nearly five centuries. The first part of the exhibition is
the presentation of maps. Drawn largely from the Kalakriti Archives,
Hyderabad, the maps presented here include rare, prized and
distinctive exemplars of cartographic history. You will find, here, a
map of Goa made by Frankfurt cartographer Matthäus Merian;
English geographer Aaron Arrowsmith’s 9-sheet map of India,
published in 1822 and many more.
July 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016 - Fort Collins,
Colorado
Discover how the art of cartography has changed and
improved over time. Maps not only show destinations but worldviews,
populations, climates, topography, and border changes over the years.
Explore the globe with Cartography Around the World: Past and
Present at the Global Village Museum, 200 W. Mountain Ave. With a
fascinating array of maps—both old and new—you can travel
through time and around the world without leaving Fort Collins.