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January 27, 2017 – January 15, 2018 –
Houston
Featuring maps dating from 1513 to 1920, the special
exhibition Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State,
at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, traces more than 400 years
of Texas history. Visitors will have the opportunity to see the
formation of Texas, from an unnamed frontier in the New World, to a
small outpost of New Spain, to the huge, bustling state that now
leads the nation. Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star
State will be in the Hamill Gallery and feature maps dating
between 1513-1920. The works in this exhibition are mainly from the
archival collection of the Texas General Land Office and Houston map
collectors Frank and Carol Holcomb. Additionally, there are items on
loan from the Witte Museum in San Antonio and the Bryan Museum in
Galveston.
September 14, 2017 - January 16, 2018 - Leiden
Asia is
home to many different cultures, which share important
characteristics and are diverse at the same time. The exhibition
Mapping Asia, in University
Library Leiden, Witte Singel 27, investigates a number of the
most conspicuous features, such as language, education, urbanization
and natural resources. Each characteristic obviously connected to the
others. Politics and especially migration have been instrumental in
shaping some of these features. How does migration influence the
development of cities? Is globalization one the factors in the
disappearance of indigenous languages? These and more questions are
discussed in this exhibition. This is not an exhibition on historical
maps, but an exhibition in which various aspects of Asia will be
highlighted using cartography and GIS mapping tool. The exhibition
shows several attractive maps on a specific theme especially made for
this exhibition, including prints, books, photographs and maps.
October 12, 2017 - January 27, 2018 - Canton, Georgia
The
Cherokee County Historical Society is pleased to announce our new
temporary exhibit, Mapping Cherokee, Featuring the 20th Century
Map and Photo Collection of Lat Ridgway, in the Cherokee County
History Museum, 100 North Street. The exhibit focuses on land
surveyor, Lat Ridgway, who worked during in Cherokee County during
the 1950s-70s. Open W, Th, F 10-5 Sat 10-3.
July 1, 2017 – January 28, 2018 – Tampa
There
are a few different dates that may be mentioned concerning the
beginning of communications between Florida and Cuba: the 1850's when
the McKay family began shipping cattle from Tampa's Ballast Point to
Havana, 1886 with the arrival of the cigar industry and the founding
of Ybor City or in 1959 with Fidel Castro's takeover. But the history
reaches back further. Gateways to the Caribbean: Mapping the
Florida-Cuba Connection, the new exhibit at the Tampa Bay History
Center, 801 Old Water Street, shows definite threads between the
Sunshine State and the island for over the last 500 years with over
50 maps, both rare and original, lithographs and other documents. One
map, published 1511, shows a crude representation of the "isla
de beimini," the native Indian name for Florida, by Peter
Martyr, a Spaniard who had traveled with Cristopher Columbus. Other
maps depict fifteenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish and British
occupations of Cuba and Florida, nineteenth- and twentieth-century
development of rail and steamship lines and Cuban tourist maps from
the thirties and today.
November 3, 2017 - January 28, 2018 – Madrid
The
writer Robert Louis Stevenson once said that he had heard of strange
men who were not interested in maps, but did not believe in their
existence. Undoubtedly, maps are fascinating objects. Its magnetism
is universal. Their appeal comes from the illusion they generate,
from their great evocative power: the loneliness of a remote island,
access to an unfamiliar region, the omniscient and panoramic view.
The Biblioteca Nacional de España, Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22;
maintains invaluable cartographic finds: manuscript maps, incunabula,
engravings, atlases, nautical charts and hundreds more. The
exhibition, held in Sala Recoletos, Cartografías de lo
desconocido [Cartographies of the unknown] contains more than two
hundred works from the BNE itself and from other Spanish
institutions. All of them give shape and allow us to imagine
priceless or remote things. They are the medieval mapamundi or the
letters of the discoveries. There are maps that show non-existent
places and others that reflect invisible phenomena.
September 4, 2017 - January 31, 2018 – Seattle
Curated
by Sandra Kroupa, All Over the Map: From cartographs to
(c)artifacts is a celebration of cartography, geography, and
travel throughout history, showcases all areas of Special
Collections, including a wide range of maps, travel literature,
decorated book covers, photographs, manuscripts and more. Exhibition
can be seen at Special Collections, Allen Library South Basement,
University of Washington Library.
October 18, 2017 – January 31, 2018 - Fort Lauderdale,
Florida
100 Maps That Changed the World: Discovery of the
Americas and the Establishment of the United States can be seen
Cotilla Gallery, second floor of the Alvin Sherman Library, Research,
and Information Technology Center, Nova Southeastern University, 3100
Ray Ferrero, Jr. Blvd. The exhibit features rare maps and atlases
from the 15th through the 18th century from the collection of the
Asbury family. The maps were selected to illustrate the European
discovery of the Americas and the exploration and mapping of the
American colonies up and through the American Revolution. The exhibit
contains maps by such famous mapmakers as Sebastian Münster;
Gerardus Mercator; Abraham Ortelius; the Hondius family; Joan Blaeu;
etc.
October 19, 2017 - February 12, 2018 – Moscow
(‘Karty
zemel’ Rossiyskogo Severa: real’nost’ i miphy’)
[Maps of the Lands of the Russian North: Reality and the Myths]
can be seen at Russian State Library, Ivanovsky Hall. Catalogue,
edited by Art Volhkonka (207 pp., ills). ISBN 978-5-906848-46-8.
Within one space, there are collected manuscript and printed maps,
which represent the history of the development of the Northern
territories from the 16th to the 21st century. There are old and
modern atlases, General maps of the Russian state and maps of
provinces, navigation charts and maps of expeditions, educational
illustrated maps, preserved in the collections of the two largest
libraries of the country – the Russian State Library and the
Russian National Library, as well as artifacts from the private
collection of the collector Andrey Kusakin. In the age of gadgets
when we do not hesitate to use maps in tablets and smartphones, an
old map on the wall or in the world atlas remains close to a miracle.
It takes you back for a few centuries and makes you think, how was
happening the discovery of continents and islands, conquering of
mountains, overcoming of forests and seas, and contacts of different
civilizations. Development of the vast expanses of the North is one
of the most exciting stories of world history. Exhibition in the
Ivanovsky Hall demonstrates how gradually expanded the knowledge
about cold and unapproachable Russian North, how the white spots of
mysterious Tartary were filled in with the real outlines of coasts,
mountains and islands, how in the map appeared the names of the
pioneers - explorers – Willem Barentsz, Semyon Dezhnev, Vitus
Bering. And often the cost of move from myth to reality, from
ignorance to knowledge was a human life. The pearl of the exhibition
is "Drawing Book of Siberia", which gives an idea of the
Russian cartography before Peter the Great. It is the earliest
domestic atlas, extant, created in 1701. It does not yet have
parallels and meridians, the North may be on the bottom, not at the
top; the shape of the land was made "by patrol", "by
talks" and "by interrogation" of service people,
locals and travelers. There is an exhibition catalogue, edited by Art
Volhkonka (207 pp., ills), ISBN 978-5-906848-46-8. Project Manager –
Natalia Samoylenko; Curatorial group – Lyudmila Zinchuk,
Lyudmila Kildyushevskaya. Designer of the exhibition – Eric
Belousov.
October 13, 2017 - February 18, 2018 - San Francisco
The
California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, has two
simultaneous exhibitions: Alexander Hamilton: Treasures from the
New-York Historical Society that examines the life and prolific
career of now-popular American statesman Alexander Hamilton (c.
1755–1804) and his lasting influence on shaping the foundation
of the modern United States; and Meanwhile Out West: Colonizing
California, 1769-1821 that explores Spanish Colonial California
during the period of Hamilton's life. The exhibitions implicitly ask
the questions: Who tells the story of the United States? Who tells
the story of California? Meanwhile Out West: Colonizing California
demonstrates that pre-conquest, much of what we know as the Southwest
and west coast of the United States was the home of hundreds of
thousands of Native people and the edge of the Spanish frontier. This
exhibition explores the history of the region now known as California
during the Spanish era, which roughly coincides with Alexander
Hamilton's life and the nation's founding, through exquisite art and
manuscripts drawn from CHS's collection, and artifacts borrowed from
the Autry Museum of the American West, the Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Museum of Anthropology, and the Museum of Mission Dolores. The
treasures from the CHS Collection include manuscripts created by
Spanish military commanders and missionaries, lavishly illustrated
folio volumes recording European voyages of exploration to California
and the Pacific Northwest, and rare maps illuminating changing
geographic understandings of California and the quest for the
Northwest Passage.
October 25, 2017 - February 18, 2018 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Whether in illusions of curling corners, ripped
insets, or overlapping sheets, cartographers have long enticed us to
reach out and touch their creations. The exhibition Look But Don't
Touch: Tactile Illusions on Maps invites you to learn more about
the relationship between touch and sight in the representation of
abstract space and how those visual illusions have traveled the
world. On view in Pusey Library, M–F, 9–5, and Saturday,
10–2.
September 29, 2017 - February 24, 2018 - Fribourg
The
Library of the University of Fribourg, Joseph-Piller 2, has the
exhibition Freiburg à la carte. Die Stadt von 1822 bis
heute. The exhibition provides an overview of the history of the
cartographic as well as the persons and associations that have been
in Fribourg since the beginning of the 19th century to the present
time.
September 30, 2017 - February 25, 2018 – Boston
Humans
have been delving below Earth’s surface for tens of thousands
of years. From the earliest maps of the spiritual underworld made by
ancient man, to digital maps of the seabed produced today, the human
need to explore and envision the world beneath our feet is age-old.
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston Street exhibition Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the World
Below will show you how ancient Romans carved vast underground
catacombs, how minerals and natural resources have been studied,
engineered and transported since the 19th century, how today’s
scientific and cartographic advancements have enabled us to picture
the entire ocean floor, and what lies below the streets of Boston. As
you explore nearly 400 years of maps and images of the world below,
you can compare the historical viewpoint with the modern, and see how
we have advanced our perception and depiction of what lies beneath.
January 27, 2018 - March 2, 2018 - Bilzen, Belgium
Erik
Van Hove is a patron of Bilzen's library and a collector of
historical maps from the 16th to the 18th century. His beautiful maps
of our regions, Historische kaarten aflevering 3, Fricx, are
exhibited in the exhibition space in the Bibliotheek Bilzen,
Eikenlaan 23.
September 13, 2017 – March 4, 2018 – Leiden
The
Museum of Anthropology (Museum Volkenkunde) organizes a special
gallery exhibition: Mapping Asia. The reason is that Leiden
University, the City of Leiden and all its partners are celebrating
Leiden Asia Year. About 30 objects, maps and objects on which Asian
countries are depicted illustrate that maps are much more than you
would think at first sight. Maps are not objective. We assume that
they only show how an area looks. But what you see is the vision of
man behind it, the creator and the client. They have portrayed how to
think about a particular area: what is to be found and who is the
boss for example.
November 3, 2017 – March 11, 2018 – New York
The
New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, will display the
exhibition Mapping
America's Road from Revolution to Independence.
The exhibition was developed by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center in
commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Britain’s 1765 Stamp
Act. The exhibition uses maps, hand drawn and hand printed in the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to illuminate the
tremendous changes—geographic, political, and economic—that
occurred before, during, and just after the Revolutionary War. The
New York Historical Society has added rarely seen manuscript and
printed maps from its premier collection to what is a remarkable
selection of maps at the core of the exhibition traveling from the
Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. Among the
additions are a selection of maps drawn in the field by Robert
Erskine, Geographer and Surveyor General of the Continental Army, and
his successor Simeon Dewitt, and a copy of John Mitchell’s Map
of the British and French Dominions in North America with the Roads,
Distances, Limits and Extent of the Settlements (1755) to which John
Jay added red lines to indicate proposed boundaries during the
negotiations of the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
October 10, 2017 - March 18, 2018 – Seville
Based
on the discovery of a manuscript of the eighteenth century by the
architect José Matías de Figueroa, of the River
Guadalquivir, the Library of the University of Seville organized the
exhibition Guadalquivir. Maps and stories of a river. Image and
look. The exhibition can be seen in the General Archive of the
Indies, Avenida de la Constitución, 3. Curated by Professor
José Peral, the exhibition shows a wide selection of
cartographic material, printed books and manuscripts, historical
works and recent photographs from the Library of the University of
Seville, Archive General de Indias and more than twenty institutions.
February 27, 2018 - March 24, 2018 - Deanscurragh, Longford,
Ireland
Longford County Library, Heritage and Archives
Services will host the opening of a very interesting exhibition
entitled A History of Longford Town through Maps.
The exhibition has been prepared by Martin Morris, County
Archivist, and is based on the Longford fascicle of the ‘Irish
Historic Towns Atlas’ by Sarah Gearty, Martin Morris and Fergus
O’Ferrall, which was published in 2010. The Atlas traces the
town’s history with particular reference to a number of maps
produced from the 1600s onwards.
November 24, 2017 – March 29, 2018 – Cambridge
An
exhibition Landscapes Below; Mapping and the New Science of
Geology can be seen in
Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University Library. Featuring
the biggest-ever object (1.9mx1.6m) to go on display at the Library:
George Bellas Greenough's 1819 “A Geological Map of England and
Wales” (the first map produced by the Geological Society of
London), as well as a visually stunning collection of maps from the
earliest days of geology – the exhibition explores how these
new subterranean visions of the British landscape influenced our
understanding of the Earth. All the maps belonging to the library are
going on display for the first time. Admission is free. Opening times
are Mon-Fri 9am-6pm and Saturday 9am-16.30pm.
February 19, 2018 - March 30, 2018 - Milledgeville, Georgia
The
Georgia College Museum of Fine Arts, 120 South Columbia Street, hosts
the Thomas F. and Janice C. F. Armstrong Antique Map Collection. The
Museum is proud to present You Are Here with antique maps from
the Thomas F. and Janice C. F. Armstrong Antique Map Collection. This
exhibition showcases 40 French, Italian, English, German and American
maps that depict the growth of the southern states of America - most
particularly, Georgia. Map dates range from 1760 to 1870. Each map
contains the state of Georgia, many of which include Milledgeville as
the state capital.
October 28, 2017 - April 2, 2018 - Laufenburg, Switzerland
The
Museum Schiff Laufenburg, Fluhgasse 156, has an exhibition
Historische Karten der Region (Hochrhein region) [Historical maps
of the region]. Open Wednesday from 14:00 to 16:00; Saturday and
Sunday from 14:00 to 17:00. Admission free!
February 14, 2018 - April 2, 2018 - Thessaloníki Two years after some of the rare, 333-year-old maps of the Aegean Archipelago commissioned by Louis XIV of France were found in the Thessaloníki University Library – and led to the discovery of the remainder of the collection in the historical archives of the French defence ministry – an exhibition of the reunited map collection has been organised in the northern Greek city of Thessaloníki. The exhibition Archipelago 1685-1687 in the maps of Louis XIV was organised by the Thessaloníki University library in collaboration with the French Consulate in Thessaloníki and the AUTH Cartography Workshop. It was inaugurated at the Telloglio Arts Foundation. It features 39 rare, hand-drawn French maps of the Cyclades islands of exceptional quality and technique – which demonstrate the influence of classicism on cartography – as well as 28 panoramic works of art.
April 5-11, 2018 - Prague
An
exhibition in Prague's National Technical Museum will present unique
ancient documents and Czech collection items that were recently put
on the UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, such as the Kynzvart
daguerreotype, the Janacek archive and the Camocio maps collection.
The Czech-Maltese Camocio maps collection highlights the Great Siege
of Malta in 1565. According to experts, it is the only issue
preserved in Euro-American collections. It helped experts reconstruct
the whole cycle of combat reports from the crucial battle of Malta
after 450 years. The collection of the maps, whose author was
Giovanni Francesco Camocio (1501-1575), is kept by the Charles
University's Faculty of Sciences.
January 2018 - April 14, 2018 - Martin, Slovakia
Old
maps of Europe and Slovakia can be seen at the Literary Museum of
the Slovak National Library (Slovenská národná
knižnica, M. R. Štefánika 11). The exhibition shows a
collection of maps and graphic representations of Europe and Slovakia
from the 15th to 18th century. Included are maps created by Slovaks
such as Pavol Kray, Samuel Mikovíni, Andreas Erik Fritsch,
Samuel Krieger and founder of Hungarian Scientific Geographic
Statistics Ján Matej Korabinský. They were mainly
representations of upper-Hungarian (Slovak) cities and regions that
were part of Slovak Matej Bel’s work (one of the most
significant European scientists of the 18th century and founder of
modern geography in the Hungarian kingdom).
January 16, 2018 – April 14, 2018 - Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Maps enjoy a long tradition as a mode of
literary illustration, orienting readers to worlds real and imagined.
Presented in conjunction with the bicentenary of the Harvard Map
Collection, the exhibition Landmarks: Maps as Literary
Illustration brings together over sixty landmark literary maps,
from the 200-mile-wide island in Thomas More’s Utopia to the
supercontinent called the Stillness in N. K. Jemisin’s The
Fifth Season. Visitors will traverse literary geographies from
William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County to Nuruddin Farah’s
besieged Somalia; or perhaps escape the world’s bothers in
Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood. At this intersection of literature
and cartography, get your bearings and let these maps guide your way.
Exhibition can be seen in Edison and Newman room, Houghton Library,
Harvard Yard.
February 17, 2018 - April 15, 2018 – Venice
In
cooperation with the International Coronelli Society of Vienna, the
Biblioteca Marciana will mount a special exhibition, The Image of
the World, in honour of Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), the
celebrated Venetian map and globe maker who died three hundred years
ago. Prof Marica Milanesi, whose recent book on Coronelli was
reviewed in Maps in History n° 58 (May 2017), is responsible for
the exhibition concept, with the support of Dr Orsola Braides
(Marciana) and Heide Wohlschläger (Coronelli Society). On
display will be maps and objects of Coronelli's life from the
Marciana, as well as globes from the Rudolf Schmidt collection. A
tri-lingual catalogue (Italian, English, German) will be published by
Marica Milanesi and Heide Wohlschläger as a special edition for
the members of the Coronelli Society. Venue: Salone Sansovino,
Biblioteca Marciana, Piazetta San Marco. Additional information from
<heide.wohlschlaeger(at)coronelli.org>.
April 26, 2017 - April 20, 2018 – Madrid
La
evolución de la imagen del Mundo [The evolution of the image
of the World] can be seen at National Geographic Institute,
(Access by the Map House) C / General Ibáñez de Ibero,
3. Starting from the first geographical references of ancient Greece,
which considered a flat world, we will pass through the spherical
Earth proposed by prominent names such as Aristotle and Eratosthenes.
Next are the "T and O" maps and the nautical charts of the
Middle Ages. Then there is the rediscovery of Ptolemy's Geographia in
the Renaissance, followed by the great oceanic explorations that
finished delineating the world as we know it today.
March 19, 2018 - April 20, 2018 - Bengaluru, India
India
has always been a diverse country, with a coming together of people,
culture, cuisine and history. But, this diversity didn’t just
happen overnight, and all of us didn’t just come together from
different parts of the globe or the country without a deeper
phenomenon at play. This meeting of diverse cultures was made
possible because of the ordinary map! They mapped India, gave Mahatma
Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru a country to fight for, and here we are
now, liberated and free. This latest collection showcased at the
Indian Institute of Science called India on our Mind is art
gallery owner Prashnt Lahoti’s collections of maps that were
instituted to acquire, preserve, interpret and share the spread of
Indian civilisation’s heritage across continents and cultures.
March 26, 2018 - April 30, 2018 - Summerdale, Alabama
The
Marjorie Younce Snook Public Library, 202 W Broadway Street, in
conjunction with Alabama’s 200 Bicentennial celebration, is
exhibiting a collection of maps of the state documenting its changes
before and after statehood was established. On loan from the
Birmingham Public Library, Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in
Maps explores 450 years of Alabama history through more than 50
maps carefully selected from the library’s world class
cartography collection. The exhibit is located in the events room of
the Marjorie Younce Snook Public Library, and will be open to the
public during the library’s normal business hours (Monday –
Friday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.).
April 17, 2018 - May 1, 2018 - Doha
The first Qatar
National Library Heritage Library exhibition will display a wide
range of items from the collection that illustrate the spread of
ideas throughout the Islamic world, as well as documenting
interaction between Arabs and the West through the centuries. The
exhibition features books, manuscripts, maps, globes, and travelers’
instruments, telling the story of Qatar, along with the history of
science, literature, women, writing, travel, and religions in the
region.
April 20, 2018 - May 4, 2018 - College Station, Texas
Texas
A&M Libraries obtained a rare map of Texas made by Stephen F
Austin himself. According to researchers at Texas A&M, the map
was printed in 1830 and is the first map of Texas printed in the
United States, and the second map ever printed depicting the state.
The map shows many of the colonies, such as Austin colony, that
existed during the time period. The map will be shown in the Cushing
Memorial Library & Archives, 400 Spence St., every Monday through
Friday from 8 am to 6 pm.
April 6, 2018 - May 5, 2016 – Seoul
Yongsan:
The Unreachable Land, a new exhibit at the Yongsan War Memorial,
29 Itaewon-ro, Namyeong-dong, Yongsan-gu, provides a catch-up lesson
on the more than a century of history most Koreans have missed out
on, and gives a sneak preview of what's on the other side of those
concertina-wire-topped walls. The exhibit documents past history
through maps and images dating back to Joseon, as well as showing
what's to come, but it doesn't leave out the legacy built here.
November 18, 2017 - May 6, 2018 - Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania
Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler was the most prolific
Victorian-era panorama artist. During a career that spanned nearly 50
years, Fowler produced more bird’s eye views of American cities
and towns than any other artist. Over half of his more than 400 town
views depict communities in Pennsylvania. The State Museum of
Pennsylvania, 300 North St, new exhibit T.M. Fowler’s
Pennsylvania Bird’s-Eye Views, 1885-1905 will showcase a
sampling of original Fowler lithographic prints produced between
1885-1905.
March 7, 2018 – May 6, 2018 - Athens
The Benaki
Museum of Greek Culture (1 Koumbari & Vassilissis Sofias,
Kolonaki,) presents an exhibition — Travels in Greece
(15th-19th Century). It includes manuscripts, maps, prints,
photographs, drawings and documents, from the Efstathions Finopoulos
Collection which was donated to the museum and is one of most
important of its kind. The exhibition showcases rare editions,
manuscript maps, and drawings ranging from the arbitrary renderings
of early centuries to the accurate depictions of later years.
March 23, 2018 - May 9, 2018 – Florence Valletta Capitale d’Europa is the title of a specialised exhibition in the Sala dei Gigli in the town hall, the Palazzo Vecchio. The exhibition showcases Malta maps from the MUŻA cartographic collection including two of the Camocio Siege Maps that have just made it to the Unesco Memory of the World Register. The focused selection of maps on display present the story of Valletta, from the Great Siege of 1565 to its development into a fully fledged military fortress by the end of the 18th century.
March 16, 2018 - May 11, 2018 - Delhi, New York
Drawing
the Line: Maps of Delaware County, an exhibit of historic maps,
can be seen at the Delaware County Historical Association, 46549
State Hwy 10. This exhibit includes a sampling of the Association's
collection of maps from about 1800 through the 1960s. Surveyors’
tools will also be on display.
October 21, 2017 – May 21, 2018 - Grenoble, France
The
Alps of Jean de Beins / Maps to landscapes (1604 – 1634) can
be seen at Musée de l'Ancien Évêché,
2, rue Très-Cloîtres. Jean de Beins, engineer of the
king, drew between 1604 and 1634, a detailed cartography of Dauphine.
His works, of obvious artistic quality, depict various aspects of the
province in the seventeenth century, evoke the military issues of
territorial control, but also recall that he was one of the pioneers
of modern cartography. The exhibition presents in a documented way
about sixty maps, manuscript or printed, from major European
institutions such as the British Library and the National Library of
France. Archives documents from the funds of the Grenoble Municipal
Library, the Departmental Archives of Isère and the Municipal
Archives of Saint-Egrève enrich the subject.
February 2018 - May 25, 2018 - Boulder, Colorado
The
Earth Sciences & Map Library, University of Colorado Boulder,
2200 Colorado Avenue, has an exhibition A Century of Views of
Colorado: 1820-1920". Displayed are items ranging from
government exploration artists' views to commercial birds-eye views
to early maps with vignettes of Colorado communities. Some of the
items are quite early for Colorado, and rare, so you might enjoy
seeing them for the first time.
March 21, 2018 – May 26, 2018 - New York
Washington
Map Society member J. C. McElveen will be curating an exhibit of his
maps and books at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, entitled
“Westward the Course of Empire” Exploring and Settling
the American West. The exhibit, in the 2nd Floor Gallery, will
feature some maps and travel narratives from the 17th and 18th
Centuries, but the focus of the exhibit will be on exploring and
mapping the American West in the 19th Century, from Lewis & Clark
to the Pacific Railroad Surveys. Hours: Monday – Saturday 10 am
to 5 pm. Exhibitions are open to the public free of charge.
February 27, 2018 - May 27, 2018 - New Orleans
In
commemoration of the city’s 300th anniversary in 2018, The
Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street, will provide a
multifaceted exploration of the city’s first few decades and
its earliest inhabitants with New Orleans, the Founding Era,
an original exhibition and bilingual companion catalog. The
exhibition will bring together a vast array of rare artifacts from
THNOC’s holdings and from institutions across Europe and North
America to tell the stories of the city’s early days, when the
city consisted of little more than hastily assembled huts and
buildings. Beginning with the region’s Native American tribes,
through the waves of European arrival and the forced migration of
enslaved African people, the exhibition will reflect on the
complicated and often conflicted meanings the settlement’s
development held for individuals, empires and indigenous nations. The
display will feature works on paper, ethnographic and archaeological
artifacts, scientific and religious instruments, paintings, maps and
charts, manuscripts and rare books. These original objects will be
complemented by large-scale reproductions and interactive items.
Admission is free.
February 2016 – May 31, 2018 - Austin, Texas
The
Bullock Museum, 1800 N. Congress Ave, exhibition Mapping Texas:
Collections from the Texas General Land Office is an exhibit
throughout the year of maps from the Texas General Land Office. Maps
change quarterly.
March 23, 2018 - June 2, 2018 - Abu Dhabi
Louvre Abu
Dhabi is set to open its second exhibition that explores spherical
representation of the world and its scientific instruments, from
antiquity to the present day. The exhibition, Globes: Visions of
the World is curated by Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The exhibition will display 160 works from the collections of
Bibliothèque nationale de France and outstanding loaned works.
More than 40 globes and spheres, rare archaeological remains,
magnificent scripts, astrolabes and splendid world maps are expected
to take visitors back to 2500 years of history of the world.
March 24, 2018 - June 2, 2018 - Maysville,
Kentucky
Cartography: The Art of Map Making can be seen
in the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center, 215 Sutton Street. One can see
how mapping progress from the mid-18th century through the mid-19th
century. You will see examples of the early maps made by frontier
surveyors. Though few accurate western details can be seen in some
early maps, the Bowen and Kitchen maps of the 1780’s and two of
the Laurie and Whittle maps of the first half of the 1790’s
that are on display show major geographical elements. Details such as
the Great Lakes and the Ohio River and some of its tributaries “are
readily discernible…even if the shapes or outlines are not
perfectly true.” Our Lewis Evans’ map of the Middle
British Colonies shows much greater detail. The French soldier,
explorer, and spy, Georges Henri Victor Collot came right through
Maysville to sketch and map the first road west of the Appalachians;
the road from Limestone to Frankfort. This map, that was supposed to
be used by the French military, is on display with great detail. You
will even see Collot’s map in Steve White’s painting
featured along with other magnificent paintings of history throughout
the exhibit. Other maps in the exhibit show a later and more detailed
Kentucky as well. The Museum is closed on Sunday & Mondays and is
open 10-4 Tuesday-Friday and 10-3 on Saturdays.
December 9, 2017 - June 3, 2018 - South Brisbane, Queensland
A
Braille globe sits on display at the State Library in South Bank,
well-worn from the numerous fingers that have run across its surface.
It’s one of many Braille models, maps and toys Richard Frank
Tunley created over 50 years from the 1920s, providing an educational
resource and joy for the vision-impaired children of Brisbane. In
1924, Mr Tunley helped establish compulsory education for blind and
deaf children and was instrumental in establishing the Braille House
at Annerley in the 1950s. His Braille maps and globe are part of the
exhibition Magnificent Makers on display in the State Library
Queensland, Philip Bacon Heritage Gallery, level 4, South Bank.
March 19, 2018 – June 8, 2018 - Baton Rouge
Louisiana
State University Libraries Special Collections presents the
exhibition, Made in New Orleans: The Past in Print, on display
in Hill Memorial Library. The exhibition commemorates the 300th
anniversary of the founding of the Crescent City. Made in New
Orleans: The Past in Print showcases items from our collections
that were printed or published in New Orleans. This eclectic mix of
materials — ranging in date from 1805 to 2009 — serves as
a metaphor for the city. Broadsides, books, tickets, newspapers,
photographs, calling cards, brochures, maps, and reports, written in
English, French, Spanish, German, and Vietnamese, document a variety
of topics of interest in the city’s long and colorful history.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
March 16, 2018 – June 10, 2018 - Bowlees, Newbiggin, Barnard Castle, United Kingdom An original example of a map produced by the 'Father of English Geology' has gone on display as part of a new exhibition. Visitors to Bowlees Visitor Centre, in Upper Teesdale, were the first to see geologist William Smith's map as part of a new geo-heritage project launched by the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership (North Pennines AONB). The travel map, which was produced in 1815, is at the centre of the AONB's Earthworks project. It is the world’s first countrywide geological map and often known as the map that changed the world as Smith, a surveyor and engineer, travelled the length and breadth of Britain collecting data to create “A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland.” The exhibition takes visitors through the evolution of geological mapping, from Smith’s ground-breaking work, to modern maps. Contact Bowlees Visitor Centre on 01833-622145 or email mandy(at)northpenninesaonb.org.uk for more information.
January 22, 2018 - June 15, 2018 - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
A
colorful pie chart created in 1805 by the inventor of statistical
graphs, William Playfair, to show the then-proportions of the states,
territories and provinces of the United States. Maps and charts of
Manhattan in the early 1930s prepared by the Slum Clearance Committee
of New York. Illustrations of the location, size and shape of
sunspots that Galileo observed by projecting the sun onto paper
through a telescope. A map to visualize the number of prostitutes in
each of Paris’s 48 quarters in the early 1800s, as famed
hygienist Alexandre Jean Baptiste Parent-Duchâtelet explored
the connection at the time between prostitution and public health.
These are some of the dozens of charts, graphs, maps and other images
on display in Linderman Library, Leigh University, 30 Library Drive,
as part of an exhibit titled, At a Glance: Selected Works in the
History of Data Visualization. The items are on display in the
library’s main reading room, the Café Gallery on the
ground floor, and the Bayer Galleria on the third floor.
April 27, 2018 - June 17, 2018 – Prague
The
exhibition features a selection of old maps, plans and
geographical atlases from the collection of the Hořín-Mělník
branch of the Lobkowicz family. This collection, including
cartographic manuscripts and prints from the period 1579-1880, was
purchased by the Czechoslovak state in 1928 together with the Prague
Lobkowicz Library. Now they are kept in the collections of the
Manuscript and Early Printed Books Department, National Library of
the Czech Republic. Displayed are some of the oldest cartographic
colour copper engravings, early lithographies, or first language maps
and probably the oldest printed railway map on the territory of
Habsburg monarchy. Displayed are also manuscript maps of the
Lobkowicz estates, made in collaboration with significant
cartographers of the 19th century, and also maps connected with the
life and work of the Lobkowicz family abroad. Exhibition can be seen
in the Klementinum Gallery - Exhibition Hall, National Library of the
Czech Republic (entrance from the Mariánské Square,
Gate B2); open Tuesday - Sunday: 10.30 am - 6 pm.
May 22, 2018 - June 22, 2018 - Tbilisi, Georgia
A
selection of unique maps of Georgia over the last 20 centuries is set
to present the history of geographers’ understanding of the
country at the State Museum of Literature of Georgia. Throughout
month, organisers of the display Georgia on Old Maps will seek
to illustrate the evolution in what has been promoted as "the
first cartographic exhibition of the kind” in the country. It
will feature copies of over 60 maps from some of the leading
libraries and museums across the world.
February 24, 2017 – June 24, 2018 - The Hague
The
world of the Dutch East India Company can be seen at The National
Archives, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 20. This exhibition marks the
digitization of the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
The archives are spread across various countries around the world and
a large portion is preserved in the National Archives. They contain a
wealth of information and have served as a unique source for research
for many years. The National Archives brings this remarkable material
together for the first time in a single exhibition. Visitors are
taken on a voyage past two hundred years of history of unique maps,
ships' logs, letters and drawings. For this exhibition fifty unique
maps and charts are on display.
To July 2018 - Carson, California
A permanent exhibition
of antique maps has opened on the second floor of the California
State University Dominguez Hills University Library, 1000 E. Victoria
Street. Entitled Where Are You From? the exhibition documents
the vast information that be gleaned from maps. Looking for New
Granada? Since it is now the country of Columbia you probably can't
readily find it on MapQuest, although it is represented on a map now
on display in the library. Need to find where Russian Tartary or
"Hindoostan" was? You can find them in the exhibition. With
15 maps dating from 1747 to 1946, the exhibition covers the entire
world. These maps show how the world was viewed throughout the last
250 years and surprise the viewer with accuracy as well as inaccuracy
and whimsy. They invite praise for their art and design, confusion
when a familiar place is named something else and serve as a gateway
for critical thinking. The maps are part of the Library's Archives
and Special Collections Map Collection. Additional maps are on
display in the on the fifth floor. The Library collaborated with the
Promoting Excellence in Graduate Studies Program to put the
exhibition together. The maps can viewed during regular library
hours.
July 13, 2017 – July 2018 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
The
Museu Histórico
Abílio Barreto, Avenida Prudente de Morais, 202, has an
exhibition O
Desafio Cartográfico do novo / Belo Horizonte –
Cartografia de uma Cidade Planejada [The Cartographic Challenge of
the New / Belo Horizonte and the Cartography of a Planned City]. This
exhibition of manuscript and printed maps reveals the diversity of
documentation that was produced during the construction of the new
capital by the end of the nineteenth century. Topographical maps,
cadastral surveys, and numerous maps document the development of Belo
Horizonte.
May 5, 2018 - July 15, 2018 - Lausanne, Switzerland
Recently
two globes made by Mercator, one terrestrial and the other celestial,
were found at the University of Lausanne. After restoration, the
globes are now displayed in the Musée Arlaud, Place de la
Riponne 2bis. The exhibition Terra Incognita confronts two
worlds beyond the centuries: that of the Flemish geographer Gerardus
Mercator and that of the visual artist Lausanne de Francesco. Both
combine technology and aesthetics, abstract thinking and the most
minute craftsmanship to reflect their times. The interactions
generated by this meeting between heaven and earth, where the sea
takes a huge place at a time when migrants in distress reach the
island of Lampedusa (a work of Marco de Francesco testifies
directly), will be fueled by the look and curiosity of the visitors.
The process of authentication and restoration will be presented, as
well as the added value of the "Mercator system" in the
history of cartography.
September 2017 – July 16, 2018 - New York
The New
York Public Library’s extensive map collection includes a
treasure trove of artistically creative cartography. When maps are
embellished with pictures, as they have been since mapping began, we
receive geographic information in richer, more engaging ways.
Illustrated maps of New York are especially effective in offering
exuberant and evolving views of a burgeoning metropolis. It seems
only right, after all, that such a flourishing city be depicted with
all manner of visual flourishes. Picturing the City: Illustrated
Maps of NYC features a diverse selection of illustrated maps
spanning six centuries, from Manhattan’s earliest days as the
hub of a new Dutch colony to a lighthearted depiction of the city in
the 22nd century. Exhibit can be seen in Lionel Pincus and Princess
Firyal Map Division, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Avenue
(42nd St and Fifth Ave), First Floor , Room 117.
May 21, 2018 - July 19, 2018 - Centre, Alabama
Sweet
Home: Alabama’s History in Maps, a collection of more than
three dozen historic maps that depict Alabama’s history is on
display at the Cherokee County Public Library, 310 Mary St. The
special exhibit is part of the library’s salute to the Alabama
Bicentennial. It is located in the library’s conference room
and is open to the public during regular library hours. The
collection has been assembled by the Southern History Department of
the Birmingham Public Library. A grant for display costs has been
provided by the Alabama Bicentennial Committee. A majority of the
maps were gifts by collector/historian Rucker Agee. The earliest
dates from 1545 and shows the eastern part of what is now the United
States, as well as South America.
November 14, 2017 - July 2018 - Ithaca, New York
Maps
are powerful and engaging forms of visual communication. They show us
our world, and the myriad smaller places within it. Maps simplify,
scale down, and organize what otherwise would be too large, too
distant, or too complex to be seen. Maps fulfill a multitude of
functions, and are used for a variety of purposes. Political maps,
railway maps, waterway maps, soil maps; from cross-sections of lake
water depth to trolley routes; maps are irresistible and invaluable
resources for learning about our environment in all its tremendous
diversity. The Maps of Tompkins County can be seen at The
History Center in Tompkins County, 401 E. State / E. MLK Street •
Suite 100. This exhibit displays a sampling of The History Center's
map collection from the 19th through the 21st centuries. Open Tues.
Thurs. Sat. • 11AM – 5PM. Also by appointment. First
Friday of Every Month • 5PM - 8 PM.
March 28, 2018 - August 5, 2018 – Paris
L'épopée
du canal de Suez / Des pharaons au XXIe siècle [Suez Canal /
Forty centuries of epic since Pharaoh Sezostrees’s III time]
can be seen at Arab World Institute, 1 Rue des Fossés
Saint-Bernard. This exhibition was tailored to celebrate the passing
of 150 years since the inauguration of the Suez Canal. Included are
170 pieces that depict the Suez Canal’s story from Sezostrees
III era to date. The exhibition contains manuscripts, maps, models,
miniatures, rare films, art paintings, and old newspaper clippings.
June 9, 2018 - August 5, 2018 – Shanghai
A
century of change on Nanjing Road East highlights the changes in
the downtown area. The exhibition can be seen in Shanghai Urban
Planning Exhibition Hall, No.100 Renmin Main Street. Included are
over 2,000 photos. Seven maps dating back to 1884 will also be
exhibited and compared with a contemporary map of the downtown area.
April 27, 2018 - August 28, 2018 – London
James
Cook: The Voyages can be seen in PACCAR Gallery, The British
Library, 96 Euston Road. To mark 250 years since Captain James Cook’s
ship Endeavour set sail from Plymouth, the exhibition will tell the
story of Cook’s three great voyages through original documents,
many of which were produced by the artists, scientists and seamen on
board the ship. From Cook’s journal detailing the first
crossing of the Antarctic Circle to handwritten log books, stunning
artwork and intricate maps, chart the voyages, which spanned more
than a decade, and explore the experiences of people on the ship and
in the places visited. Our collection of original maps, artworks and
journals from the voyages, alongside rare printed books and newly
commissioned videos, seek to shed new light on the encounters that
completed the outline of the known world and formed the starting
point for two centuries of globalisation.
August 20-31, 2018 - Aberystwyth, Wales
This August sees
the 450th anniversary of the death of Humphrey Llwyd (1527-1568),
credited by some as the inventor of Britain. Llwyd’s many
achievements include, producing the first published map of Wales. To
mark this anniversary The National Library of Wales will be mounting
an exhibition, Humphrey Llwyd the man who put Wales on the map,
to show some of his works and explain his many achievements.
May 26, 2018 - September 1, 2018 - Hamilton, Ontario
Massive
maps that were smuggled out of France and likely used by the British
to help defeat Napoleon are on display at McMaster Museum of Art for
the first time. Welcome to the Gentleman, Soldier, Scholar &
Spy: The Napoleonic era maps of Robert Clifford, a remarkable
display of Napoleonic era maps collected by English nobleman and
sometime spy Robert Clifford (1767-1817). The 20 colourful and artful
maps, which date from early 1700s until the early 1800s, were
smuggled out of France more than two centuries ago by Clifford and
used by the British to help defeat Napoleon. They were acquired by
McMaster in 1969, and many are being shown publicly for the first
time.
May 9, 2018 - September 3, 2018 – Washington
The
first major traveling exhibition dedicated to the arts of the Swahili
Coast, World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean
can be seen at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, 950
Independence Avenue, SW. The exhibition presents more than 160
artworks brought together from public and private collections from
four continents. These works reflect on the diverse interchanges
breaking the barriers between Africa and Asia in a space that
physically connects the Smithsonian's African and Asian art museums.
The exhibition features a range of works from intimate pieces of
jewelry to impressive architectural elements including exquisitely
illuminated Qur'ans, carved doorposts, furniture, maps, and other
works. These works are recognized for not only their artistic
excellence, but also how they visualize wide-reaching networks of
mobility and encounter.
May 16, 2018 - September 3, 2018 – Paris
The
National Museum of Asian Arts - Guimet, 6, place d’Iéna,
is offering for the first time a cartographic exhibition, Le monde
vu d’Asie, that tells another story of the world, fully
embracing the Asian point of view. The masterpieces, famous or
unpublished, testify to the richness of the different traditions
(China, Japan, Korea, India, Vietnam, etc.) and the fruitful
exchanges between the different Asian regions; as well as between
Asia and France and the rest of the world. These maps and
iconographic representations (paintings, engravings, manuscripts or
objects), often relegated to the status of exotic documents, appear
here as true works of art and precious historical sources, which shed
light on the decisive role of Asia in the process of globalization
from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. They show the
cosmographic constructions, pilgrimage routes, discovery routes,
imperial gestures, urban projects, and colonial expansions, all
cultural phenomena and social practices involved in the invention of
Asia, which yesterday as today, is at the center of the world.
April 2018 – September 9, 2018 –
Washington
Breaking News: Alexander Hamilton, a
text-based exhibition at the George Washington University Museum, 701
21st St NW, captures some of the 18th-century parlance that sparked
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s word-drunk show. Assembled primarily from
Antonia M. Chambers’s private collection, Breaking News
includes 18 newspapers and pamphlets — including “The
American Museum” — published in or just after Hamilton’s
lifetime. These are supplemented with maps and historical
information. Among the maps on display is a copy (from the GWU
Museum’s holdings) of the 1790 street plan for Washington
devised by Pierre “Peter” L’Enfant.
September 6-16, 2018 - Rayleigh, England
Rayleigh Town
Museum, 91 High Street, will be holding an exhibition on historic
Maps of Essex from 1576 to coincide with “Heritage Open
Days.” The exhibition will feature a number of original maps,
such as the three John Ogilvy “strip” maps of Rayleigh
dating to 1675, which are known as the original A to Z maps.
February 17, 2018 – September 17, 2018 - San Antonio
The
Witte Museum and Texas General Land Office leaders are excited to
announce Connecting Texas: 300 Years of Trails, Rails, and Roads,
a new collaborative exhibition. This exhibition highlights the
complexity of the pathways that symbolize the many cultures that
found a place in the land we now call Texas and is another way to
reflect on the past 300 years of San Antonio’s history. The
exhibition will be in the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg South Texas
Heritage Center at the Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway St., and feature
maps that examine how explorers, Native Americans, armies immigrants
and early settlers moved in, around and across Texas over the last
300 years.
June 8, 2018 - September 23, 2018 - New York
Medieval
Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders can be seen at The Morgan
Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue. Monsters captivated the
imagination of medieval men and women, just as they continue to
fascinate us today. Drawing on the Morgan's superb collection of
illuminated manuscripts, this major exhibition, the first of its kind
in North America, will explore the complex social role of monsters in
the Middle Ages. Several maps with monsters are displayed.
February 3, 2018 - September 26, 2018 – Seattle
The
Log House Museum, 3003 61st Ave. S.W., will host a map exhibition
Navigating to Alki: Early Maps of the Duwamish Peninsula. The
maps depict the growth and development of the northern Duwamish
Peninsula, from its first inhabitants until its annexation by Seattle
in 1907.
April 14, 2017 – September 30, 2018 –
Amsterdam
Joan Blaeu's map of the world, dating from 1648, one
of the absolute highlights of National Maritime Museum,
Kattenburgerplein 1, is on view for the public. Its size is
impressive – over 2 by 3 metres – and at the time it
displayed the most up-to-date knowledge of the world we live in. This
version of the map is absolutely unique. After being hidden away for
a long time, the map is once again open to the public as part of the
exhibition The world according to Joan Blaeu | Master Cartographer
of the Golden Age. The world according to Joan Blaeu is a
supplement to the popular Atlases exhibition.
December 5, 2017 – September 30, 2018 - Tainan,
Taiwan
One of only six known maps remaining in the world that
demarcate zones of residence of the Han from those of the Aborigines
on Taiwan during the Qing Dynasty is being exhibited at the National
Museum of Taiwan History, in the Display Education Building, 4th
Floor. The map, which it would have taken up to five years to draw,
is one of 70 ancient cartographic pieces in the exhibition Taiwan
History in Maps at the National Museum of Taiwan History. Other
maps include a map of Taiwan drawn under Emperor Daoguang, who
reigned from 1820 to 1850, and maps marking areas managed by
Presbyterian missionaries in the final years of the Qing Empire.
January 2018 - September 30, 2018 - Huissen, Netherlands
The
Stadsmuseum Hof van Hessen, Vierakkerstraat 39, will be showing
Kaarten van Gelre en Kleef [Maps of Guelders and Cleves]. The
exhibition is of original maps from the seventeenth to nineteenth
centuries. Because Huissen was once on the border of both regions, it
is on maps of both Gelre and the Betuwe (on the east side) and maps
of the Duchy of Cleves (on the west side).
March 24, 2018 - September 30, 2018 – Boston
Boston
boasts some of the nation’s most recognizable and cherished
green spaces, from Boston Common, to the Emerald Necklace, to
hundreds of neighborhood parks, playgrounds, tot lots, community
gardens, playing fields, cemeteries, and urban wilds. Breathing
Room: Mapping Boston’s Green Spaces can be seen in the
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston St. In this exhibition, you will learn how the country’s
oldest public park grew from a grazing pasture to an iconic
recreational and social center, how 19th-century reformers came to
view parks as environmental remedies for ill health, how innovative
landscape architects fashioned green oases in the midst of a booming
metropolis, and what the future holds for Boston’s open spaces.
August 3, 2018 - September 30,
2018 - Dundas, Ontario
Finding Your Way: Our History in
Maps! can be seen in Dundas Museum & Archives, 139 Park St W.
The display will capture the Town of Dundas and the City of Hamilton
from the early explorers to the current day. The exhibit includes a
number of original maps from both our archival collection, as well as
the collections of private collectors and other institutions.
September 5, 2018 - October 5, 2018 – Zaragoza
The
exhibition Aragón
on the map: the image of Aragón through cartography can be
seen in the Museo de Zaragoza, Plaza los Sitios, 6. The exhibition
offers a vision of the evolution of the territory from the first maps
in which some place names and geographical features are identified
within the Iberian Peninsula, up to the precision of contemporary
cartography with the use of new technologies applied to geographic
information. Through this sample of 72 works, including atlases, maps
and documents, the rich cartographic heritage preserved in Aragon is
highlighted.
June 26, 2018 - October 27, 2018 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
The
Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library, began in 1818 with a gift from
Israel Thorndike of over 5,000 maps and atlases from the Ebeling
collection of maps and Americana. Coming not long after a fire had
devastated the university’s library, this gift bolstered
efforts to repopulate the library. Now, 100 times bigger (and
hopefully at least a little wiser), the Map Collection continues to
collect new maps, old maps, and geospatial data. Visit our
exhibition, Follow the Map: The Harvard Map Collection at 200,
to explore the growth of the Map Collection. The exhibition brings
together captured Japanese maps from World War 2, hand-drawn
nineteenth-century surveys of Bavaria, Early Modern atlases, and
aerial photographs taken with cameras attached to pigeons to trace
the network of donors, collectors, and curators who have defined the
size and scope of the Harvard Map Collection. The exhibition is free
and will be open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 to 5 and
Saturdays 10-2.
June 1, 2018 - October 28, 2018 – Oxford
Tolkien:
Maker of Middle-earth, an exhibition at Bodleian’s Weston
Library,will explore the power of the author’s literary
imagination. This free Bodleian exhibition will feature manuscripts,
artwork, maps and letters from the Bodleian’s extensive Tolkien
Archive, artifacts from the Tolkien Collection at Marquette
University in the USA and from private collections; bringing them
together in the city where Tolkien wrote his most famous works.
August 14, 2018 - October 28, 2018 – Seoul
Outside
of map collectors and geography fanatics, it’s difficult to
find people carrying physical maps with them these days. In the past,
it was impossible for travelers to go anywhere without studying a
map, but navigation systems and smartphones can now tell you where to
turn and even suggest the fastest route in real time. The latest
exhibition at the National Museum of Korea, 137 Seobinggo-ro,
showcases an array of Korea’s ancient maps, which are becoming
rarer each day. Titled 500 Years of the Joseon Dynasty Maps,
the exhibit displays some 260 maps from the Joseon Dynasty
(1392-1910). The vast collection reveals that the people of Joseon
had a bit of a cartographic obsession.
October 8-28, 2018- Manila
The
Holy Grail of ancient Philippine maps is the “Carta
Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas” of 1734,
better known as the Murillo Velarde map. Until some years ago, few
Filipinos other than historians and antique map collectors knew about
it. All that has changed since the map became a key piece of evidence
cementing the Philippine claim on Scarborough Shoal (clearly shown on
the map as “Panacot”). Only 14 copies of the Murillo
Velarde map are known to exist in the world, four of which are in the
Philippines. Three of these precious original artifacts will be
exhibited in the same room when the International Map Collectors’
Society holds its 36th annual symposium at the Ayala Museum.
May 19, 2018 – October 31, 2018 - Mystic,
Connecticut
Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave, announces
its exhibit The Vikings Begin: Treasures from Uppsala University,
Sweden. Joining The Vikings Begin will be an exhibition
featuring the Vinland Map, a document that ignited a
controversy in 1965 as it purported to prove the Vikings reached the
New World long before Christopher Columbus. Is the map legitimate?
Experts conclude it is not, but it still has a lot to tell us about
issues of authenticity and the origins of modern America. This
exhibition will place the Vinland Map on display in the U.S. for the
first time in more than 50 years, allowing those who have followed
the saga to see its primary evidence for the first time. This
exhibition is made possible in collaboration with the Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
May, 2018 - October 2018 - Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island
For history professor Alan MacEachern, the idea came
from leafing through a book from the 1940s about a woman who rode
across Canada on horseback. Prince Edward Island was not included on
the map of Canada on the cover. There have been recent stories of
P.E.I. being left off the map, and the idea intrigued MacEachern. But
as it turns out, leaving P.E.I. off maps has been a habit of
cartographers and illustrators that goes back centuries. The exhibit
MacEachern put together, Missing the Island, includes not just
maps, but illustrations for advertising, an original copy of a book
of Champlain's voyages dating back to 1613, and a T-shirt that his
daughter found. Exhibition can be seen in the Confederation Centre
Art Gallery, 145 Richmond St.
August 2018 - October 2018 – Indianapolis
Indiana's
Statehouse, a new exhibit, is currently on display in both the
Exhibit Hall and the second floor Great Hall of the Indiana State
Library, 315 W Ohio St. This year marks the 130th anniversary of the
completion of a new Statehouse for Indiana. The exhibit includes
drawings, photographs, maps and other historical materials from the
collections of the Indiana State Library.
August 17, 2018 - November 6,
2018 - Thousand Oaks, California
Both the science and art of
maps are highlighted in the collection of a local resident, Ernst F.
Tonsing, on exhibit at California Lutheran University. Mapping
Meaning: Adventures in Cartography will be on display in the
William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art. This exhibit presents a variety
of maps and ways of reading them, along with cultural objects from
the times of their creation. Works date from the 16th century to the
present, including a collection focusing on Scandinavia, a depiction
of California as an island, and maps of the heavens. The gallery is
open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. Saturday. It is located in William Rolland Stadium on the north
side of Olsen Road between Campus Drive and Mountclef Boulevard.
September 8, 2018 - November 9, 2018 - Janville, Eure-et-Loir,
France
About 50 km to the south-west of Paris begins a vast
plain devoted mainly to an intensive cereal production. Three times
as large as the Duchy of Luxembourg, it is bound roughly by the
cities of Chartres in the north and the Loire River, with Orléans
and Blois in the south. Although it never enjoyed the status of a
royal domain, its importance was recognized on the first map of
modern France, the Gallia Novella by Francesco Berlinghieri (Florence
1482), and it has ever since been recorded on maps of France and its
provinces. About a dozen maps dedicated to that region by French and
Dutch mapmakers are on record from the end of the sixteenth to the
beginning of the eighteenth centuries. In 1790, with the French
revolution, the regions of the ancient regime were absorbed into the
newly created 83 Departments. Horizons de la Beauce – Cartes
géographiques de l’ancien Grenier de la France [Horizons
of the Beauce – Ancient Maps of the former Granary of France]
brings together, for the first time, about fifty maps of Beauce and
surrounding provinces from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth
century. The maps document the historical evolution of this
little-known area in terms of topography and human environment. Some
surveyors’ instruments and other cartographic items complete
the display. A catalogue, in French, is available. Venue is
Médiathèque Etude, 16 rue du Cheval Bardé.
August 20, 2018 - November 16, 2018 - Staunton, Virginia
The
walls of the History Gallery at the R. R. Smith Center for History &
Art, 20 S. New Street, are adorned with dozens of 17th century,
copper-engraved and beautifully hand colored maps of France – a
tribute to the important influence that France has had on Virginia
wine and cheese production. Curated by Scott Ballin and hosted by the
Augusta County Historical Society, the exhibit entitled Vive La
France includes more than two dozen of the beautiful maps, many
from the noted Blaeu Family “Grand Atlas,” with some from
other noted 17th Century cartographers.
October 18, 2018 - November 17, 2018 - Hong Kong
A
special map and chart exhibition, curated by Mr. K.L. Tam (Board
member, Hong Kong Maritime Museum) will be held at Hong Kong Maritime
Museum.
April 2014 – November 4, 2018 – Amsterdam
Go
on a journey with the maps and atlases that forever changed how we
see the world. The exhibition, The Atlases, shows you top
pieces from The National Maritime Museum's extensive collection of
maps and atlases. Get acquainted with the four pioneers of
cartography: Ptolemy, Mercator, Claesz, and Blaeu. These map makers
and publishers produced maps and atlases that forever changed how we
see the world. Exhibition can be seen in the East Wing, National
Maritime Museum, Kattenburgerplein 1.
September 25, 2018 - December 4,
2018 - Brussels, Belgium
The Royal Library of Belgium will be
exhibiting "the most expensive" atlas of the 17th century:
The Atlas Major by Joan Blaeu.
December 5-12, 2018 - Mumbai,
India
During the colonial era, some of the early European
scholars, artists, merchants and The East India Company employees
were fascinated by the topography and culture of India. They took
efforts to learn more about the religions, laws, customs and
literature of India. While, on the one hand, it gave rise to
societies like the Asiatic Society, maps and prints as well as visual
and textual documentation of the flora and fauna of India, social
customs, different professions, and historical monuments. Rare
Finds is art historian Dilnavaz Mehta’s labour of love at
the Cymroza Art Gallery, 72 Bhulabhai Desai Road. Under the banner of
Rare Finds — Hindustan Revisited, she curates an
exhibition of old maps, lithographs, etchings, aquatints, engravings
and antiquarian books. There are maps that showcase areas of Bombay
city, Poona, Ahmedabad and Tughlakabad (Delhi).
September 15, 2018 - December 16, 2018 - Sint-Niklaas,
Belgium
The Mercatomuseum, Zamanstraat 49, has an exhibition
De Republiek boetseert de Wereld [The Dutch color the World]
which is curated by Stanislas De Peuter. The following three parts
form the basis of this exposition:
- the search for the spices
(the exploration of the "five" waterways);
- the Dutch
follow the Portuguese: the story of the VOC;
- the 17th century
Dutch cartography of the known continents.
Many maps will be shown
in reflection, such as historical maps of New England and the three
most important maps of Magellanica. Also shown at this exhibition are
the four fabulous Peutinger-Ortelius maps of the antique world.
October 16, 2018 - December 23,
2018 - Washington
Eye of the Bird: Visions and Views of
D.C.'s Past can be seen in George Washington University Museum,
701 21st Street NW. In addition to two new bird’s eye paintings
of the District, there are several printed bird’s eye views,
and maps on display.
July 1, 2017 – December 31, 2018 – Pittsburgh
Few
objects from colonial America had such a personal connection to their
owners as the powder horns used by soldiers, settlers, and American
Indians to store the gunpowder necessary for their survival. The Fort
Pitt Museum, 601 Commonwealth Pl, will reveal the stories behind
these delicately carved objects as part of a new exhibition, From
Maps to Mermaids: Carved Powder Horns in Early America. In a
world where firearms were necessary tools, the powder horn –
made from the lightweight and hollow horn of a cow – served as
the constant companion of thousands of frontier residents. While
powder horns kept gunpowder dry, many owners also recognized the
smooth surface of the horn as the ideal place to leave their mark.
They etched names, dates, maps, and war records, as well as purely
whimsical figures, into the objects. Many carved powder horns found
in Pennsylvania in recent decades illustrate stations along the
Forbes Road and include some of the earliest first-hand depictions of
Fort Pitt. A 1764 powder horn depicts the Forbes Road between
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The horn is signed by Jno. Fox, who may
have been a soldier in the Royal American Regiment stationed at Fort
Pitt.
February 2018 - December 2018 - Dayton, Washington
Mapping
Our Place: Maps of Dayton and Columbia County exhibit at Dayton
Historic Depot, 222 E. Commercial St. features historic maps of
Dayton and Columbia County. Three Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from
1898, 1909, and 1916, military road maps, and maps of Huntsville,
Starbuck and Columbia County produced by George Baker, who owned the
title company in Columbia County in 1900, and many more will be on
display. The current hours of operation are; Wednesday through
Saturday from 11-4 p.m.
March 2018 - December 2018 - San Antonio
Texas A&M
University San Antonio is celebrating the city’s 300th
anniversary through its tricentennial themed exhibit entitled, San
Antonio as a Crossroads: 300 Years of an Evolving Frontier Community.
The Tricentennial exhibit will explore San Antonio’s vibrant
history through photographs, artwork, maps, documents, artifacts and
ephemera to tell the story of an evolving frontier community as the
heart of the region. The exhibition is in the Presidio Gallery
located at the Bexar County Archives Building in the 120 block of
East Nueva.
March 1, 2018 - December 2018 - Reno, Nevada
If you've
been inside the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center lately, 1664 N
Virginia St,, you may have wondered why there's a nearly full-size
replica of the historic Reno Arch in the main floor atrium. Like the
original arch downtown, it's a symbol of welcome. On May 9, 2018,
Reno will turn 150, and this momentous occasion has prompted the
Special Collections and University Archives Department of the
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries to launch a major exhibit in
honor of the city's sesquicentennial. Spanning all five floors of the
building, Reno at the Crossroads: A Sesquicentennial Exhibit,
1868-2018 explores Reno's colorful evolution from its founding in
1868 to the present through photographs, maps, documents, and
objects. The scale of this exhibit provides us with the exciting
opportunity to expose people at the University and throughout the
community to many sides of Reno they might not have known, and
encourage them to learn more. Most of it can be viewed during the
open hours of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.
May 23, 2018 - December 31, 2018 – Prague
The
Geographical Institute of the Faculty of Science of Charles
University, Geographical Library and Map Collection, Albertov 6, have
the honor to invite you to the exhibition Mikuláš
Kladyán: first map of Bohemia 1518. This, the first
separate detailed map of Bohemia, was published in Nuremberg.
Unfortunately, the title of the map or the first line did not
survive. It is possible that the Czech states ordered it to display
the conditions in the country after the Saint-Wenceslas Treaty of
1517.The exhibition is open Monday to Friday (except holidays)
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Admission is free.
September 28, 2018 –
December 31, 2018 – Chicago
Whatever budgetary qualms
Chicago may have had about putting on the World's Columbian
Exposition in 1893, it is by now, safe to say that the city got its
money’s worth. Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the
1893 World’s Fair, is a fascinating exhibition at the
Newberry Library, 30 W. Walton St., that mines the research
institution’s archives to display maps, postcards, artwork and
other fair-related items.
until December 2018 - Kahului, Maui, Hawaii
The story of
how Hawaii found its place on the map in the mid-Pacific is a tale
filled with discovery, adventure and conflict. When European
explorers first entered the Pacific, they found that the great ocean
had already been mastered by navigators whose nautical skills rivaled
their own: the Polynesians. The presence of the Polynesians
throughout the ocean's isles was testimony to an extraordinary
seafaring heritage. The Story of Hawaii Museum displays antique maps,
prints and ephemera from the Polynesian Migrations to the 21st
Century in an attempt to explain the history of Hawaii. The Story of
Hawaii Museum Gallery & Museum Gift Shop is open 7 days a week
and is centrally located at the first level of Queen Kaahumanu
Center, 275 W Kaahumanu Ave.