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September 17, 2021 - January 23,
2022 - Tacoma, Washington
A View from Above: Bird’s-Eye
Maps from the Washington State Historical Society Collection
features bird’s-eye view maps that were drawn to give the
viewer a sense of looking down at a city and its major features as if
they were flying above it. Popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s,
these maps were mass-produced and represented American cities and
villages of all sizes and from all parts of the country. A View
from Above showcases some of the many panoramic maps in the
Historical Society’s collections, including those printed
during the heyday of the art as well as more modern images influenced
by this technique.
September 2021 - February 6, 2022
- Los Angeles
Jo Mora: Mapmaker of the American West, a
new exhibition at Central Library, 630 W. 5th Street, featuring rare
beautifully illustrated maps and ephemera from the golden age of
mapping. The golden age of pictorial mapping covers the late 1920s
into the 1950s, a time when few artists were as prolific and talented
as Joseph Jacinto “Jo” Mora, who left a rare and
important cartographic legacy. The materials on display were selected
from the Jo Mora Trust, the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford
University, and the Los Angeles Public Library’s Mora
Collection.
October 8, 2021 – February
20, 2022 – London
The
British Library will open Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival
Queens, the first major exhibition to consider Mary Queen of
Scots and Elizabeth I of England together, putting them both centre
stage and giving them equal billing. The exhibition takes a fresh and
revealing look at the infamous story of two powerful queens bound
together by their shared Tudor inheritance, whose turbulent
relationship dominated English and Scottish politics for thirty
years. Drawing on the British Library’s collection of early
modern manuscripts and printed books, Elizabeth and Mary’s
autograph letters will be displayed alongside 16th-century state
papers, speeches and cipher documents, as well as maps, drawings and
woodcut engravings to illustrate key moments and events. There will
also be paintings, jewels, textiles, maps, drawings and objects
borrowed from private and public collections in the UK and Spain.
Timed entry tickets can be booked.
November 5, 2021 - February 25,
2022 – Vatican City
The Vatican Apostolic Library is
happy to welcome visitors to its exhibit Tutti. Umanità in
cammino. From Travel Cartography to Utopian and Allegorical Maps: the
Vatican Apostolic Library Meets Pietro Ruffo. Among the various
works on display is Evliya Celebi’s Seventeenth-Century Map of
the Nile, a unique travel mapping work of about six meters in length,
accompanied by Ruffo’s reinterpretation of it. Also included
are four examples of celestial and terrestrial cartography according
to Pietro Ruffo, three rare examples of cartography from among the
treasures of the papal collection: a Chinese world map, an
astronomical scroll from India, and five paper astrolabes from the
sixteenth century.
January 8, 2022 – February
27, 2022 - Lichfield, Staffordshire
The past will be mapped
out in a new exhibition at Lichfield Cathedral. A collection of map
books from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries will be on display as
part of the Searching Beyond the Horizon showcase. The
exhibition will be held in the Chapter House of the cathedral.
February 21, 2020 – March
2022 - Brookville, Pennsylvania
The Jefferson County History
Center, 172-176 Main Street, has a map exhibit You Are Here.
The Grand Hall and Skylight Gallery will showcase maps of western
Pennsylvania and Jefferson County from pre-settlement times to
present day. The exhibit also shows the development of Pennsylvania
counties and Jefferson county townships and a number of early
historic maps of Brookville. Of special note is a series of original
17th and 18th century New World maps on temporary loan from the
Arader Gallery, NY City. Open Wed - Sat: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
September 10, 2021 – March
4, 2022 - Boston
This
exhibition originally opened May 2020, but was forced to close by the
Covid-19 pandemic. Now it can be seen again. From
17th century attempts to woo European settlers to the “New
World” with maps that exaggerated natural resources, to a
recent “Sharpie-enhanced” weather map designed to shape
the politics of disaster planning, maps and visual data have always
been used as tools for manipulating reality. In the wide-ranging free
exhibition, Bending
Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception, the
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public
Library, 700 Boylston St., takes a critical look at how to understand
the world as it appears in geographic representations. The show
features both historical and contemporary documents, as well as
interactives designed to engage visitors with the power of persuasive
mapmaking.
November 30, 2021 - March 19,
2022 - San Angelo, Texas
Angelo State University is presenting
a prominent traveling exhibit of historical Texas maps, Going to
Texas: Five Centuries of Maps, in the ASU Mayer Museum, 2501 W.
Avenue N. The exhibit features a selection of historical maps from
the Yana and Marty Davis Map Collection at the Museum of the Big Bend
in Alpine. All of the maps are original, and they range from
16th-century maps of New Spain to the early settlement of Texas, the
republic and statehood, and into the 21st century. As such, the
exhibit includes some of the most significant maps in the history of
Texas and North America.
December 16, 2021 - March 19,
2022 – Athens
The National Bank Educational Foundation
organizes and presents the exhibition The Genesis of The Greek
State, Cartography and History, 1770-1838 at the Eynardos Palace,
20 Agios Konstantinos and Menandros, as part of the celebrations for
200 years since the Revolution of 1821. In the exhibition about 170
works are presented, cartographic and geographical publications, many
maps and rare atlases, as well as scientific instruments related to
cartographic work. The exhibition also features the “Map of the
Borders” (1832-1837), which is being displayed outside the
National Library of Greece for the first time. It was printed in
Athens by the Royal Press in 1837 and is the first map and official
legal documentation in the cartographical history of Greece.
February 22, 2022 - March 26,
2022 – York
Pocklington and District Local History Group
is displaying its archive of historic maps from across the district –
all collected or created by local historians and mapmakers. Entitled
Roger’s Maps, the exhibition can be seen in the
Pocklington Arts Centre studio, 22-24 Market Pl, Pocklington
(admission is free). The history group will also be displaying a
selection of maps detailing Pocklington and surrounding villages from
the 14th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and the maps of
celebrated Victorian cartographer William Watson; plus a series of
more recent compilations by local historians Mike Silburn and the
late John Nottingham, who created tithe and enclosure maps for
Melbourne, Seaton Ross, Thornton, East Cottingwith, Bielby, Fangfoss,
KIlnwick Percy, Millington, Burnby, Yapham and Meltonby, Bishop
Wilton, Barmby Moor and Allerthorpe.
March 13, 2022 - April 12, 2022 -
New Delhi, Delhi
An ongoing show at Lexicon Art, M-12, Outer
Circle, Connaught Place, showcases miniatures, maps and other objects
that engage viewers on various themes in Indian art and history. His
Glory and His Monuments: On Indian Gods, Maps and Cosmography has
about 80 pieces, from the 14th century to the 20th century, through
Jain illustrated manuscripts, rare esoteric maps from the Jain and
Hindu cosmological traditions, and even miniature paintings of
deities that are selected mostly from Rajasthan. Displayed are maps
of Jambudweep or the Mount Meru. Sirohi Mandala, which is related to
the Bhagvad Gita, could be called the pièce de résistance
of the show. It’s a map that is part of the Hindu tradition of
mapmaking. Strictly speaking, in the Hindu tradition of producing
religious manuscripts, specimens of maps have been few and far in
between.
December 3, 2021 – April
18, 2022 – Oxford
North Sea Crossings: Anglo-Dutch
Books and the Adventures of Reynard the Fox, a new exhibition at
The Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, will trace the long history
of Anglo Dutch relations. North Sea Crossings is a pioneering
collaborative project with the University of Bristol and the
University of Cambridge, funded by the National Lottery Heritage
Fund. Focusing on the period from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the
‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688, items from the Bodleian
Libraries’ collections will illustrate the ways in which these
exchanges have shaped literature, book production and institutions
such as the Bodleian itself, on either side of the North Sea,
inviting visitors to reflect on the way this cultural exchange still
impacts British and Dutch societies today. From manuscript books from
the medieval period to the birth of the printing press and the
introduction of movable type in Europe, to maps that shows the
proximity of England and the Netherlands and the rapid spread of news
between the two countries, North Sea Crossings demonstrates
the crucial role of collaboration and communication between these two
nations.
November 13, 2021 - April 24,
2022 – Sydney
Explore the beauty, art and science of
mapping across three centuries through a Maps of the Pacific
exhibition of maps, charts, atlases and globes held in the State
Library of New South Wales' magnificent collection.
April 1-30, 2022 - Mumbai
The
Asiatic Society of Mumbai’s will showcase 32 maps in
Meandering Through a Mapped Canvas. The month-long exhibition
is at Asiatic Society of Mumbai’s Durbar Hall on Shahid Bhagat
Singh Road. The exhibition is a collaborative effort between Asiatic
Society of Mumbai, Rotary Club of Bombay, heritage management company
Past Perfect; and independent paper and book conservator Amalina
Dave. On display will be a wide range of maps spanning a period of
300 years. The exhibition begins with the oldest map in the
collection, donated to Asiatic Society of Mumbai by former Irish
ambassador Brian McElduff. Dating back to 1652, the map is called
L’empire du Grand Mogol (Map of the Great Mughal Empire), made
by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson D’Abbeville. The
exhibition includes maps with cartouches including one of Bombay by
Bellin, circa 1756. It’s among six maps of Mumbai in the
exhibition. Another Mumbai map is a plague map from 1897, detailing
the epidemic from the previous year.
January 31, 2022 – May 6,
2022 – Munich
The exhibition Kunstmanns Kostbare
Karten [Kunstmann's Precious Maps] can be seen in the ground
floor of the Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians
Universität (LMU) Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1. Dr. Thomas Horst
(Department of Historical Basic Sciences and Historical Media Studies
at LMU and Centro Interuniversitário de História das
Ciências e da Tecnologia, Lisbon) developed a new exhibition
that is dedicated to an almost forgotten, extremely versatile scholar
at the LMU: Friedrich Kunstmann (1811- 1867) – historian,
jurist, canonist and theologian. His studies in cartography and
church history as well as a longer stay as a teacher at the
Portuguese royal court in Lisbon inspired him to compile a relevant
library (1,100 volumes, many of them in Portuguese), which has been
in the possession of the Universitätsbibliothek der LMU. In
addition to documents on Kunstmann's work in Portugal and at the LMU,
selected objects from the map collection found in his estate
(regional and country maps, nautical and portolan maps and
hemispheric world maps) are presented for the first time. These range
from valuable original prints from the 16th century to contemporary
facsimiles and handwritten copies of maps, with a Portuguese
manuscript map of the Atlantic showing the coast of Brazil and West
Africa (1764) standing out in particular. Click here for a virtual
view of the exhibition.
March 24, 2022 - May 7, 2022 -
Les Lilas, France
Since the 1960s, radical cartography has
largely questioned the nature of the map as an instrument for
“objective” reading of the world, affirming its
contextual, subjective and eminently political character. For a long
time, the map was considered as a measuring tool intended to
represent territories with a concern for scientific neutrality, free
from any dogmatic position. However, like any tool of representation,
it carries not only the choice of the information that it conceals
but also the possibility of their interpretation. Any cartographer,
in all objectivity, is only the witness of his time and uses the map
as a communication tool. Any power, in any subjectivity, uses the map
to organize its control of the territory. Representing the
organization of the world is not insignificant and artists throughout
the ages have confronted the construction of these images, both
literally and figuratively through their sensitive approach to
territories and borders. The artists brought together in the
exhibition Les Territoires et la carte reverse the terms of
the subject, navigating in their representations thanks to maps of
real and fantasized places, by the physical exploration they make of
them, confronting themselves with visible obstacles. They abandon the
authorizing approach of the cartographer, crossing his legends and
solid colors to make the map a meeting ground. The exhibition can be
seen at l’espace culturel d’Anglemont, 35 place
Charles-de Gaulle.
December 11, 2021 – May 8,
2022 – Singapore
On a 19th century Korean "map of
the world", the land of women, the land of immortals, the land
of those with no intestines and the land of those with one eye are
marked. Unsurprisingly for its time, China, once known as the Middle
Kingdom, is fixed at the centre of a cosmic circle. And there is
familiarity in the inclusion of the myriad tributary states of Annam,
Siam, Burma and Korea. This mix of the imaginary with the real is a
world of difference from the scientific, modern maps people are used
to today. The cosmographies that old maps represent were widely held
by people centuries ago, and more than 60 of these works of art and
history are at the National Library's latest exhibition, Mapping
The World: Perspectives From Asian Cartography. The exhibition,
held in partnership with the Embassy of France in Singapore, features
over 60 treasures from overseas institutions and private collections
such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Musée
Guimet and École Française D’Extreme-Orient in
France, as well as the MacLean Collection, Illinois, United States
and the Yokohama City University, Japan. Exhibition can be viewed on
Level 10, Gallery, National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street.
February 8, 2022 – May 14,
2022 - Newark, Delaware
How do you look at a map? Do you start
in the middle and work your way out, or do you begin by locating a
familiar place? Each viewer approaches maps uniquely, informed by
their existing beliefs and experiences. Multiple Middles: Maps
from Early Modern Times features a selection of maps, atlases,
and travel accounts from the Early Modern Period (between the 1500s
and early 1800s). The exhibition takes narratives from the maps’
edges and repositions them as possible middles. As a result,
previously unfamiliar histories and visual elements come to the fore.
These objects highlight specific innovations, scientific theories,
and geographical middles that their makers intentionally framed. The
exhibition provides an alternate view of maps and early modern
cartography. As you explore, we hope you draw parallels from the maps
to today and leave wanting to explore more of the world around you.
This exhibition, a collaboration between the University of Delaware
Library, Museums and Press and the University of Delaware’s
Department of Art History, will be on view in the Special Collections
Gallery, 181 S. College Avenue. No appointment is necessary to visit
the Special Collections Gallery; open Monday – Friday, 9 am –
5 pm.
December 2, 2021 – May 15,
2022 - Union City, Tennessee
Discovery Park of America, 830
Everett Blvd., has on exhibit The Fascinating World of Murray
Hudson’s Globes and Maps. It features globes and maps on
loan from Murray Hudson’s collection of more than 40,000
objects. He has collected for many years and currently owns and
operates Murray Hudson Antique Maps, Globes, Books, & Prints in
Halls. The exhibit will include examples of vintage globes and maps
from different eras that reflect what the world was like at the point
in time in history when they were produced.
October 17. 2020 – May 29,
2022 – Hamburg
I am pleased to announce the exhibition
Farbe Trifft Land Farte [Colour meets map] can be seen in
Museum am Rothenbaum, Rothenbaumchaussee 64. A selection of wonderful
maps will be on display and a (printed and online) exhibition
catalogue is on the way. How and why have maps in Europe and East
Asia been coloured from the 15th to the 20th century? – a
question that has never been systematically researched before. New
findings on the use, production and symbolism of individual colours,
the transfer of knowledge between Europe and East Asia as well as the
similarities and differences in the respective colouring practices
will be presented. An online exhibition catalog is available.
February 5, 2022 - May 29, 2022 -
Treviso TV, Italy
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche presents
Mind the Map! Drawing the world from the eleventh to the
twenty-first century, an exhibition that revolves around the concept
of the map and mankind’s attempt to draw the earth’s
surface using every possible form of representation. The exhibition,
curated by Massimo Rossi, will be hosted at Ca’ Scarpa. The 40
pieces on display are high-definition reproductions from North
American, European and Japanese libraries. The originals of the nine
world map rugs of the 20th and 21st centuries, which are part of
Luciano Benetton’s geographical collections, will also be on
display.
January 15, 2022 - May 30, 2022 -
San Marino
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical
Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, will present Mapping Fiction, an
exhibition focused on the ways authors and mapmakers have built
compelling fictional worlds. On view in the Library’s West
Hall, the exhibition is timed to coincide with the centennial of the
publication of James Joyce’s groundbreaking 1922 modernist
novel, Ulysses. About 70 items will be on view, focused on novels and
maps from the 16th through the 20th century—largely early
editions of books that include elaborate maps of imaginary worlds.
January 20, 2022 - May 31, 2022 –
Portland, Maine
The Osher
Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education is excited to
announce our exhibit North of Nowhere, West of the Moon: Myth,
Fiction, and Fantasy in Maps. Inspired by our recent acquisition
of Bernard Sleigh's six-foot long “An Ancient Mappe of
Fairyland, Newly Discovered and Set Forth,” (1918) we have
selected thematic maps, books, and ephemera from our collections that
reflect whimsy and visionary thinking. This exhibit invites visitors
to ponder the ways in which myth, fantasy, and fiction have, for
centuries, provided both an escape into alternate worlds in times of
great strife, as well as an opportunity to create alternate worlds
and imagine new realities. The OML gallery is free and open to the
public (by appointment only) Tuesday through Friday, 10am to 4pm, and
Saturday, 10am-3pm. Gallery visits are timed tickets. To book your
timed ticket, please click here. Please enter the Glickman Family
Library and proceed through the arcade to the Osher Map Library
reference room and gallery entrance at 314 Forest Ave.
Closed June 2022 - Fort Wayne,
Indiana
The Karpeles Library is the world's largest private
holding of important original manuscripts & documents. Founded in
1983 by California residents David and Marsha Karpeles, the focus was
to stimulate an appetite for learning. Currently, there are 16
museums, with each one occupying a preserved building. The Karpeles
Map Museum, Pinqua, occupies the former Church of Christ at 3039
Piqua Avenue. The map-only museum will display maps on a three- to
six-month rotation schedule. Admission is always free. For
information <KMuseumFtW(at)aol.com> call 260-456-6929.
May 11, 2022 - June 2, 2022 –
Vienna
An exhibition on the occasion of the 175th anniversary
of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (OeAW)
presents valuable map treasures and unique sound recordings from all
parts of the world. The exhibition 7 Erdteile, 7 Weltmeere.
Weltaufnahmen: Karten, Klänge, Kunst [7 continents, 7 seas.
World recordings: maps, sounds, art] invites you on a journey
through the seven continents and the seven historic seas from the
late 15th to the late 19th century. The connections between
cartography, voyages of discovery, European expansion and scientific
development are illustrated with the help of selected, precious
treasures from the collections of the OeAW and the phonogram archive
of the OeAW as well as a work of art by Anna Artaker inspired by
early globalization. Exhibition can be seen at Campus Akademie,
Bäckerstraße 13.
February 18, 2022 - June 5, 2022
- Portland, Maine
"Down Иorth: The North Atlantic
Triennial", a collaboration between the Portland Museum of Art,
the Reykjavik Museum of Art in Iceland, and the Bildmuseet in Sweden,
is a fascinating contemporary art exhibition in the Portland Museum
of Art, 7 Congress Sq, that attempts to turn the idea of the North on
its head. The exhibit has a distinct geographical flavor, and, to add
to the exhibit, the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for
Cartographic Education curated a small companion exhibit of historic
maps of the Arctic and North Atlantic regions from their collections
that will be up for the duration of the show. You'll find Mapping
Down Иorth on display in the elevator gallery on the first
floor of the Portland Museum of Art.
February 25, 2022 – June 25, 2022 – Chicago The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street, will display 19th and 20th century travel maps and guides in the exhibition Crossings / Mapping American Journeys. Whether on foot or horseback, by canal or steamboat, by train, plane, or automobile, these journeys followed common pathways. Visitors to Crossings will revisit these journeys in all their diversity, ranging from the secretive paths of those determined to escape enslavement to the pleasure cruises on the Great Lakes taken by tourists on early twentieth century coal powered boats, guided by the maps and guidebooks that enabled these journeys or bore witness to them.
Closed July 2, 2022 - Washington
Exploring
the Early Americas is an exhibition featuring the 1507
Waldseemüller "World Map," the first map to use the
name America; and rotating items from the Jay I. Kislak Collection,
which includes rare books, manuscripts, historic documents, maps and
art of the Americas. Also on display is Waldseemüller's "Carta
Marina" or Navigators' Chart; and the Schöner Sammelbund, a
portfolio that contained two world maps and other cartographic
materials. The exhibition is in the Northwest Gallery of the
Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. The exhibit is free and open
to the public.
February 20, 2022 - July 3, 2022
- St Andrews
The British Library is loaning a beautiful
hand-drawn map of 15th-century Scotland. The colourful map depicts
many Scottish cities and towns and was used by John Hardyng to
illustrate his historical chronicle. Treasures on Tour: John
Hardyng’s Map of Scotland can be seen in Wardlaw Museum at
University of St Andrews.
March 4, 2022 – August 15,
2022 – Austin, Texas
Printing
the World in Premodern Europe will be a one-room show in the
Stories to Tell Gallery, Harry Ransom Center, 300 West 21st Street.
Displayed will be a wide range of printed works that helped early
modern Europeans think about themselves in relation to a broader
world. In addition to a 1648 Joan Blaeu world map, there will be a
Venice recut and reprinting (~1646) of Willem Blaeu's wall map of
Africa. At the earlier end, you'll be able to see a 1472 Isidore with
its T-O map, the 1482 Berlinghieri Ptolemy adaptation open to its
world map, and a 1540 woodcut map of Asia from Münster's
Ptolemy. In addition, visitors will be able to see a ~1601 English
edition of the small-format "epitome" of Ortelius's
Theatrum, a set of Coronelli's enormous 1688 and '93 terrestrial and
celestial globes, a standalone print of (part of) one of his
terrestrial gores from his atlas version, the Libro dei globi, and
some uncut gores for tiny (~3.5") 16th century terrestrial and
celestial globes by Demongenet alongside globes made with facsimiles
of them.
March 12, 2022 - August 27, 2022
- Washington
Before the digital age, generations of explorers,
governments, scientists and travelers relied on printed maps for
navigation, urban planning, military strategy and more. Drawing from
the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection, the exhibition The
Language of Maps brings together maps from the 17th to the 21st
centuries, each with its own symbolic language and story. Exhibition
can be seen at George Washington University Museum, 701 21st Street,
NW. Open Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
May 21, 2022 – August 29,
2022 – Liverpool
The Tudors: Passion, Power and
Politics can be seen at the Walker Art Gallery on William Brown
St. The exhibition presents the five Tudor monarchs, Henry VII, Henry
VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, some of the most familiar
figures from English history and instantly recognisable in the
portraits that have preserved their likenesses for five hundred
years. Some highlight loans in the exhibition are the Westminster
Tournament Roll, Bacton Altar Cloth, and the Bristowe Hat. Lastly,
the Armada Maps will also be on display in the exhibition, recently
saved for the nation, these maps illustrate the dramatic conflict
between the Spanish Armada and English fleet off the south coast of
England in 1588.
January 15, 2021 - August 31,
2022 – Tromso
UiT Norway's Arctic University has
acquired one of the world's most complete collections of maps of the
High North. The exhibition Blikket vendes mot nord [The gaze is
turned to the north] shows a selection of original maps from this
collection, which are from the origins of the art of printing in the
15th century and up to the expeditions of the Dutchman Willem Barents
around 1600. Exhibition can be seen in Polarmuseet, Søndre
Tollbodgate 11, and is made in collaboration between the Polar
Museum, the Norwegian Arctic University Museum and the University
Library.
March 4, 2022 – August 2022
- Watertown, Massachusetts
The Armenian Museum of America, 65
Main Street, exhibition in the Terjenian-Thomas Gallery Merchants
and Maps highlights 17 original maps from our collection that
illustrate Armenian cartography from the 1600’s to the 1900’s.
Half of the maps in this new exhibition were produced in Venice by
the Mekhitarist Order on the Island of San Lazzaro and were donated
by Paul and Vicki Bedoukian. Extensive family networks and a gift for
languages allowed Armenian merchants to dominate trade to Southeast
Asia for centuries, adds Curator Gary Lind-Sinanian. This trade
network understood the value of detailed maps, and many of the world
maps on display are in the Armenian language. Currently we are open
Friday through Sunday from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm, but check website
or phone (617) 926-2562 for updated hours.
April 24, 2022 - September 1,
2022 - Osage, Iowa
Are We There Yet? Let’s Check the
Maps can be seen in Mitchell Co Historical Society Museum, 809
Sawyer Drive. The exhibit features almost 100 maps ranging from the
mid- 1800s through much of the 20th century. The museum has been
reorganized to accommodate the display of maps loaned for the
exhibit, according to organizers from the Mitchell County Historical
Society. The museum is open from 1-5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.
There is no entry fee.
June 4, 2022 - September 11, 2022
– Sint-Niklaas
The urge to explore and understand the
world is one of the most fundamental human qualities. Nowhere do we
see this more clearly than in the history of navigation. Mankind,
driven by economic, political, scientific and religious factors, has
explored the seas for centuries. From the Minoans in the
Mediterranean to the Vikings in the north and the Polynesians with
their stick charts to today's cutting-edge satellite technology, the
ingenuity and courage of the sailors continues to capture the
imagination. The exhibition Right through the sea. Navigating from
1500 to Today tells the story of five centuries at sea with an
ever-growing knowledge of cartography, geography and astronomy. This
exhibition, which covers almost 1,200 m² at at the Stem and the
Mercator Museum, will guide you through time. Animations, replicas
and interactive screens will immerse you in the atmosphere of
shipping. Highlights of the exhibit include handwritten manuscripts
and portolan maps, a partially recreated ship's bridge from a
historic naval vessel, the world's oldest Sanskrit astrolabe,
handcrafted curiosities from bored crew members on board, and one of
the largest private collections of sextants.
September 7-21, 2022 –
London
The Royal Institute of Navigation's 75th Anniversary
Exhibition, Waves of Navigation, is at Royal Geographical
Society Pavilion, 1 Kensington Gore. Showcasing highlights from RIN's
archival history, the people behind key developments and a timeline
of radio navigation, Waves of Navigation also looks forward,
asking timely questions about global challenges and sustainability in
the 21st century.
April 5, 2022 - September 25,
2022 – Münster
The Dutch copper engraver Remigius
Hogenberg produced an engraving showing the cityscape of Münster.
And he gave the council on May 26, 1570 a proof of the work just
completed. The only surviving print of this copper engraving, which
is kept in the British Library in London, is now being returned to
Münster for the exhibition Münster 1570 –
Geschichte und Geschichten aus der Hauptstadt Westfalens [Münster
1570 - history and stories from the capital of Westphalia] which
is being held in Stadtmuseum Münster, Salzstraße 28. In
addition, the museum shows the original manuscript by Hermann
Kerssenbroick, then head of the Münster Cathedral School, which
has been lost for more than 400 years. He also portrayed the "capital
of Westphalia" vividly: in the manuscript created between 1566
and 1573.
August 8, 2022 – September
30, 2022 – London
Lambeth Palace’s newish library
building currently has an exhibition of old maps. Layers of
Lambeth: A look at the collections shows how this part of London
developed over the centuries. The collection ranges from the 17th to
19th century, from when all around here were fields through the
arrival of the railways to modern social planning maps. The
development of Lambeth Palace and its estates is also featured from
woods in Camberwell to Timber yards in Waterloo. As an exhibition,
it’s a good mix of documents and gives fresh insights into the
area. It’s also a good excuse to visit the Archbishop of
Canterbury’s new library building at 15 Lambeth Palace Road.
September 28, 2019 –
September 2022 - Windsor, Ontario
The Chimczuk Museum, 401
Riverside Drive West, has over 600 historic maps in its archival
collection. These maps include original, hand-copied and
mechanically-reproduced publications dating from the early 17th
century to the early 21st century. Navigating Our Way – Maps
of Windsor and Essex County will highlight an extensive selection
of maps, many of which will be on display for the first time.
July 9, 2022 - October 1, 2022 -
Wichita Falls, Texas
With Midwestern State University marking
its centennial, Tracee Robertson, director of the Wichita Falls
Museum of Art at MSU Texas, wondered what the museum could do to be
part of the celebration. museum staff gathered pieces of collections
from the Moffett Library and the individual colleges. The exhibition,
Belong, Connect, Discover: 100 Years of MSU Texas Treasures,
was created. Moffett Library has loaned maps from the Forrest D.
Monahan Collection. The former MSU Texas history professor collected
more than 500 railroad maps, guides, photographs, journals and books
about the American railroad system.
June 15, 2022 – October 11,
2022 – Portland, Maine
The
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
is announces our summer exhibit Vacationland: Mapping Tourism in
Maine. The narrative structure of Vacationland looks at tourism
through the lens of travel and transportation, quite literally the
mapping of tourism in Maine from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th
century. This exhibition invites you to think about the changing
landscape interventions created by and for tourists, as well as the
impact such changes had on people living in Maine year round, and
upon the environment.To book your timed ticket, please click here.
Please enter the Glickman Family Library and proceed through the
arcade to the Osher Map Library reference room and gallery entrance
at 314 Forest Ave.
September 16, 2022 - October 22,
2022 – Bucharest
From Ţepeş to Brâncuşi
– 5 centuries of history and culture in the Romanian space
is an exhibition of more than 350 maps, books, manuscripts and rare
images about the history and culture of the Romanians. It can be seen
at ARCUB - Hanul Gabroveni, Str. Lipscani no. 84-90, in one of the
most original and ambitious private exhibition projects in our
country. The exhibition illustrates the history, culture and
"Romanity of the Romanians" throughout the last five
centuries (end of the 15th century - beginning of the 20th century)
in original and original forms, including a map of Dacia from the
15th century.
March 26, 2022 - October 23, 2022
- Albany, New York
The idea for this exhibition, You Are
Here: Mapping Our World, originated in 2021 when the Albany
Institute of History & Art received twenty historic maps from
donor Rachel Lee. Lee's husband, Michael Insel (1947-2017), enjoyed
collecting and displaying maps that showed the Hudson Valley, and
particularly the village of Kinderhook, New York, the community where
the couple maintained a weekend residence. Michael's collection of
maps allowed the couple to locate their geographic place in the world
across four centuries of cartographic history. Seventeen of those
maps are included in this exhibition, along with maps, globes, books,
and historic objects that were already part of the Institute's
collection.
June 29, 2022 – October 30,
2022 - Cotuit, Massachusetts
Intricately carved designs fill
most of the galleries at the Cahoon Museum of American Art, 4676
Falmouth Rd, as the major new exhibition Scrimshaw: The Whaler’s
Art displays more than 250 pieces loaned from 15 private New
England collections and seven museums in four states. The exhibit
presents an array of carved objects both practical and decorative,
including baskets, boxes, tools, fashion accessories, walking sticks
and utensils. There are also rare examples of carved ornamental
keepsakes depicting maps, portraits, domestic scenes and patriotic
images; detailed portrayals of sailing vessels; and engravings of
whaling scenes.
April 9, 2022 - November 27, 2022
- Kingston, New Jersey
Kingston: On The Map will be
exhibited from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays in the History
Room at the D&R Canal Locktender’s House, on old Lincoln
Highway off Route 27. The display uses journal entries and prints of
a dozen historical maps to illustrate Kingston’s evolution,
from settlement to commercial center to modern community. One map
shows how Kingston moved between the colonies of east and west New
Jersey. Another shows both Kingston and Princeton divided by county
lines.
August 25, 2022 - December 9,
2022 - College Station, Texas
One of the only pristine
historical maps of Texas now resides at Texas A&M University’s
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, 400 Spence St. Among the
collection is Stephen F. Austin’s 1830 Map of Texas, a landmark
piece of Texas and cartographic history as the first map of Texas to
be printed in the United States by H.S. Tanner and the second map of
Texas ever to be printed – the first being printed in Mexico
City. This map, among others, will be on display as part of the
exhibit Charting Texas – A History of the State Through
Maps.
September 20, 2022 - December 20,
2022 – Macau
The Macau University of Science and
Technology Library opened its Macau exhibition of ancient maps,
showcasing historical records that contribute to the study of Macau
history. The exhibition is divided into six parts, including Chinese
maps of Macau, early Portuguese maps of Macau, Macau maps drawn in
the Netherlands in the 17th century, Macau maps drawn by Western
countries in the 18th century, Macau maps made before and after the
Opium War, and a modern map of Macau. maps of Macau, early Portuguese
maps of Macau, Macau maps drawn in the Netherlands in the 17th
century, Macau maps drawn by Western countries in the 18th century,
Macau maps made before and after the Opium War, and a modern map of
Macau.
March 18, 2022 - December 28, 2022 – Boston The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St.,will have a major new exhibition More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape. In this exhibition, we’ll be exploring how maps and geography provide a way of understanding how the control of nature has intertwined with struggles for justice. Some of these stories date from a period far earlier than modern environmentalism, like the 1684 deed in which white settlers officialized their taking of what is now East Boston as private property, or the 1878 map of “offensive odors” which shows how Boston began filling in estuaries in order to please the senses of elite neighborhoods like the Back Bay. We'll be working with both historical and modern maps to examine how to look at environmental protection and social justice as twin issues.
January 28, 2022 - December 31,
2022 - Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Moravian Historical Society is
pleased to announce the opening of our newest exhibition Charting
the Unknown: Early Moravian Maps. Through archival documents,
historic maps, and objects from the collection of the Moravian
Historical Society, visitors will be taken on a journey through the
fertile lands of the Pennsylvanian frontier. The exhibition explores
surveying techniques, the conflicts between indigenous communities
and Europeans, and the Moravian contributions to surveying, early
cartography, and town planning. The Moravian Historical Society’s
Whitefield House museum is open daily from 1:00–4:00 p.m. and
is located at 214 East Center Street.