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November 7, 2023 - January 20,
2024 - Victoria, Seychelles
The new Seychelles National
Gallery, located inside the National Library building, will hold its
first exhibition: The Seychelles: A Journey through the History of
Maps (1482-1830). There will be around 40 maps and models of
ships that sailed the Indian Ocean on display. The majority of maps
were obtained from museums in France. Additionally there will be
exceptional old artifacts linked to navigation and astronomy.
September 18, 2023 - January 30,
2024 – Minneapolis
Eyes
on the World : Cartography in the Age of Sail is
an exhibit from the James Ford Bell Library which features a wide
range of maps and atlases produced by cartographers and printers from
the 15th through the 18th century. These cartographers grappled with
reconciling traditional world views with the constantly changing new
information European travelers of all sorts brought back from around
the globe. Exhibition is on view in Elmer L. Andersen Library, Bell
Gallery (ground floor), 222 21st Ave S. Open during library hours (9
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday; and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
on Wednesday and Thursday).
July 29, 2023 - January 31, 2024
– Corsica
The Corsican Museum invites you to travel and
discover the world of maps. Cartografia, Corsica in maps 1520-1900
brings together geography and history in a corpus of representations
of the island and the Mediterranean traced under the eye of the
cosmographer, the politician, the military, the hydrographer. The
exhibition, of over 300 items, presents a selection of ancient
documents, maps and plans, books and atlases.
September 18, 2023 –
February 23, 2024 - Ann Arbor
Manga no Ryokou: The “Manga
Map” and A Journey Through the Art of Depiction in Japanese
Cartography examines the intersection between art, narrative, and
geography within Japanese cartography. It centers on the titular
“manga map”, a rare Japanese travel map of Japan (ca.
1934) that is densely packed with manga illustrations detailing local
folklore, history, architecture, flora/fauna, and more. The exhibit
also includes works of Japanese art and cartography in order to
consider the dichotomy between artistry and geographic depiction, and
how that plays with the definition of a “map.” Exhibition
can be seen in Clark Library Exhibit Space, Hatcher Library South.
September
23, 2023 - February 24, 2024 – Haverfordwest
An
exciting new exhibition of maps from the National Library of Wales
will open at the Riverside Gallery, Haverfordwest. The Wales
to the World exhibition
will display a selection of maps from the more than 1.5 million
objects cared for in the National Map Collection in Aberystwyth. The
exhibition ranges from the oldest map in the National Library of
Wales to newly commissioned artworks, funded by Welsh Government’s
Anti-racist Wales Action Plan. Highlights of the exhibition include
Cambriae Typus by Humphrey Llwyd – the earliest printed map
specifically of Wales, a Cold War map of Pembroke Dock secretly drawn
by the Soviet Union, 17th century playing cards on a map theme, and a
German propaganda map quoting David Lloyd George. Brand-new artworks
inspired by the map collection will also be on display for the first
time in this exhibition, alongside the items that inspired them.
September 16, 2023 - –
March 3, 2024 - St.Gallen, Switzerland
Celestial
globes made by Jost Bürgi are displayed in the exhibition Key
To The Cosmos at
Kulturmuseum St.Gallen, Museumstrasse 50.
September 23, 2023 – March
3, 2024 - 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
The exhibition
Mapping Modernity – Mapping Modernity tells the story of
our world in 250 maps. You can imagine the makers of the maps: the SS
commander who designed the Jewish ghetto with a few lines on the map
of Warsaw in 1940, thus sealing the fate of thousands of people. The
concerned Rijkswaterstaat official who handed in a map to his bosses
with better protection of Zeeland, two days before the flood disaster
in 1953. The makers of the 19th century American school atlas which
indicates which peoples are civilized and which have yet to develop
into white standard (if that is even possible). The exhibition
Mapping Modernity – Mapping Modernity is the crowning
achievement of the work of the passionate collectors John Steegh and
Harrie Teunissen. Exhibition is in Design Museum Den Bosch, De Mortel
4.
April 27, 2023 - March 22, 2024 –
Madrid
Before the discovery of America (1492) and the
subsequent realization in Europe (around 1503) that these lands were
a new continent and not part of Asia, the known world graphically
"fit" in a single circle or hemisphere. Thus, both the
world maps of the ancient Greek and Roman geographers, as well as the
later ones of the Middle Ages, used to have the shape of a circle .
The first known map showing America as a separate continent,
published in 1507, was also the first to include a small double -
hemisphere map as an explanatory diagram of the new configuration of
the world. Since then, double-hemisphere maps, colloquially known as
"two of oros [coins]" due to their similarity to that card
in the Spanish deck of cards, have been associated with the image of
ancient cartography, reaching their highest levels of aesthetic
beauty during the 17th and 18th centuries when authentic
copper-engraved works of art were produced for later printing. The
exhibition El mundo en un “Dos de Oros” offers a
selection of maps in "two of oros" belonging to different
periods, made in different styles. Exhibition is in Instituto
Geográfico Nacional, C/ General Ibáñez de Ibero,
3.
July 29, 2023 - March 30, 2024 –
Corsica
The Corsican Museum invites us to travel and discover
the world of maps. Cartografia, Corsica in maps 1520-1900
brings together geography and history in a corpus of representations
of the island and the Mediterranean traced under the eye of the
cosmographer, the politician, the military, the hydrographer. The
exhibition presents a selection of ancient documents, maps and plans,
books and atlases, as well as the actors and the many techniques that
participate in the cartographic discipline.
September 28, 2023 - March 2024 -
Staunton, Virginia
Scott Ballin is telling a story, at least
in part, through maps. An avid collector of maps, Ballin's latest
exhibit, Early American Immigrants – 1600-1800: The Shaping
of a Future Nation, is currently on display at the Frontier
Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Rd. At the exhibit, Ballin displays a
series of beautiful original maps which demonstrates the evolutionary
changes that this country was going through.
September 9, 2023 – April
27, 2024 – Boston
How do Bostonians get from here to
there in a city full of trains, trolleys, ferries, and more? Whether
in the familiar colored lines of today’s MBTA map or the
complicated timetables of long-vanished omnibus routes, maps have
long been an indispensable instrument for getting around town.
Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit
will feature an extraordinary collection of transit maps dating from
the seventeenth century to the present, and invites questions about
how people have moved around the city in the past, present, and
future. Exhibition can be seen in Leventhal Map & Education
Center at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street. Guest
curated by Steven Beaucher, author of Boston in Transit and owner of
WardMaps.
October 27, 2023 - April 30, 2024
- Las Vegas, Nevada
The history of Nevada’s current
boundaries spans hundreds of years and is a story of war, expansion,
and the quest for wealth. Follow this history through maps at the
Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, 309 S. Valley View Blvd. Learn how
the State of Nevada came to be at the exhibition Mapping Nevada:
Tracing Nevada’s Statehood Through Maps.
April 1-30, 2024 –
Stanford
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collection,
397 Panama Mall, presents Earth Day 2024 - Southern Cone
Wildlands: an exhibit celebrating Earth Day 2024 and the historic
contributions of Tompkins Conservation to rewilding and conservation
efforts in Argentina & Chile! The book and map exhibits highlight
the natural history of South America's Southern Cone, particularly
wildland conservation and ecotourism in Patagonia. Books and a
selection of maps are displayed on the library's main floor.
Additional maps are displayed on the library mezzanine exhibit wall
(access from within the library).
November 1, 2023 - May 26, 2024 -
Ostend, Belgium
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the
creation of the General East India Company, better known as the
Ostend Company. An exhibition, 300 Years of the Ostend Company,
is in the City Museum of Ostend, Langestraat 69.
April 24, 2024 - May 31, 2024 –
Florence
The
exhibition Giovanni da Verrazzano between Florence and New York:
cartographies between the 1300s and 1600s can be seen in the
headquarters of the Istituto Geografico Militare, Via C. Battisti,
10. The exhibition celebrates the 500th anniversary of Giovanni da
Verrazzano's discovery of New York Bay. On display are a selection of
planispheres, drawings and prints, produced between the 15th and 17th
centuries, offering a historical overview ranging from the
rediscovery of Claudius Ptolemy's treatise on 'Geography' to the
arrival of the Florentine Giovanni da Verrazzano in the American bay
where, in 1665, the city of New York would later rise.
April 17, 2023 - May 2024 -
Boulder, Colorado
Featuring the works of two contemporary
women artists, Charlotte Bassin and Deborah Cole, and maps from the
Earth Sciences & Map Library collection; No Boundaries: Women
Transforming the World highlights how using maps in art-making
prompts us to re-evaluate what we know about space, place and
depiction of ourselves in the world. The exhibit will also a display
a number of maps by women cartographers from the map collection
highlighting the historic and current role of women in cartography,
exploration and geographic representation. Exhibit can be seen in
Earth Sciences & Map Library, Benson Earth Sciences Building,
2200 Colorado Avenue.
September 28, 2023 - June 7, 2024
- Hong Kong
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Lee Shau Kee Library, and Media Technology and Publishing Center
present China in Maps: 500 Years of Evolving Images.
Exhibition can be seen in Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology Lee Shau Kee Library.
November 30, 2023 - June 29, 2024
- Portland, Maine
Chromolithography was used in the nineteenth
century to create full-color and realistic images of the world. A
Pageant of Spectacles: Chromolithography in America can be seen
at The Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic
Education. This exhibition explains the printing process and explores
some of its particular applications to maps and bird’s-eye
views.
June 1-30, 2024 –
Stanford
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collection,
397 Panama Mall, presents an exhibit: Pride Month, honoring
the LGBTQIA+ voices in our community in a celebration of Pride Month!
Books and a selection of maps are displayed on the library's main
floor. Additional maps are displayed on the library mezzanine exhibit
wall (access from within the library).
April 4, 2024 - July 12, 2024 –
Lyon
An exhibition The detail and the whole. Maps and
images of the Rhône and Lyon area can be seen at Archives
du département du Rhône et de la métropole de
Lyon, 34 rue Général Mouton-Duvernet. The exhibition is
organized at the Archives of the Rhône department and the
metropolis of Lyon, as part of the "International Conference on
the History of Cartography" (ICHC) 2024.
April 2, 2024 - July 13, 2024 –
Lyon
Representing the far away: an European view is an
exhibition organized at the Municipal Library of Lyon, 30 boulevard
Vivier-Merle, as part of the "International Conference on the
History of Cartography" (ICHC) 2024. The exhibition will
particularly highlight documents (cartographic and iconographic) and
actors from Lyon in order to underline the place of the city in
international information networks over the centuries.
March 15, 2024 - July 14, 2024 -
New York
The New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park
West, presents New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New
Amsterdam, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch
founding of the colony that gave rise to New York City. The map is on
loan from Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence. The Castello
Plan, along with documents, coins, maps, and even a piece of the
Dutch canal, will help visitors envision how New Amsterdam was a
place of dynamism and opportunity as well as enslavement and
hardship.
July 5-19, 2024 - Manila Here's your chance to see rare maps and contemporary photographs of the West Philippine Sea -- an exhibit to mark the 8th anniversary of the Arbitral Award from The Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague this month. Pag-Asa sa Gitna ng Kalayaan <Hope Amidst Freedom> will showcase images from Pag-Asa isle in the Kalayaan chain of Palawan islands by documentarian Paul Quiambao. It can be seen in National Library of the Philippines, 1000 Kalaw Ave, Ermita. Also to be featured here are cartographic treasures from the National Library of the Philippines such as the Murillo Velarde Map, which was part of the winning presentation of the Philippine team at the Hague Arbitration.
July 1-31, 2024 –
Stanford
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collection,
397 Panama Mall, will be showcasing a book and map exhibit on heat
and climate change around the world and across time scales.
Additional maps are displayed on the library mezzanine exhibit wall
(access from within the library).
Indefinite - Astoria, Oregon
The
European Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment were periods of
unprecedented expansion of human knowledge. Few gains were greater
than in the understanding of the geography of the world. The Pacific
Coast was the last region to be explored, proving to be full of great
hardship and promise. Mapping the Pacific Coast displays maps
of the Western Hemisphere and Pacific Ocean, and can be seen at The
Columbia River Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Drive.
September 18, 2023 – August
15, 2024 – Minneapolis
Curious
Strangers: Views of the Other on Early Modern Maps
explores the premodern concept of
“the other” and how different societies viewed and
treated strangers by looking at the ethnographic depictions of
peoples around the world on early modern maps. It designed as a first
step in understanding how these visual introductions to “strangers”
affected subsequent interaction, oppression, privilege, and
characterization. Exhibition
is on view in Elmer L. Andersen Library, Bell Gallery (ground floor),
222 21st Ave S. Open during library hours (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Monday, Tuesday, and Friday; and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday and
Thursday).
March 26, 2024 - August 31, 2024
- Arlington, Texas
UTA Libraries Special Collections is proud
to present Theoria Eclipsium: Curiosity, Captivation, Connection,
an exhibition featuring over 500 years of Eclipse History! Partnering
with librarians, the students from a Medieval Science and Technology
class produced an exhibit that will be available from Tuesday to
Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the sixth floor of the University
Central Library, 702 Planetarium Place. The exhibition features maps,
rare books, and photographs from Special Collections and shows that
regardless of time period or scientific knowledge, eclipses bring us
together! The exhibit features a star map created by Johann
Doppelmayr in 1742, “Theoria Eclipsium,” illustrating
solar and lunar eclipses that have garnered particular interest for
its comprehensive depiction of the cosmos as understood in the 18th
century; and “Cosmographia” by Petrus Apianus, a guide to
the cosmos from 1534, which reveals arguments for a spherical Earth
based on the round shadow the Earth casts on the Moon during a lunar
eclipse.
May 10, 2024 - August 31, 2024 –
Boston
In the early decades of nineteenth-century China, two
series of large-format maps, one terrestrial and one celestial, were
printed in the city of Suzhou. They were printed as eight loose
sheets using Prussian blue, the first large scale use of this pigment
in East Asia, in the unusual manner of a rubbing from a stone-stele,
resulting in most of the paper appearing in bright blue. The
terrestrial maps present the realm of the Qing Empire (1644–1911)
and selected surrounding regions. The four extant editions of the
celestial maps, dated to 1822 and 1826, present a planisphere of all
the known stars and extensive descriptions of known celestial bodies
and their related celestial mechanics. The exhibition Mapping
Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China considers these two maps
in the contexts of their production, consumption, and functions
revealing them as unique in the global history of mapmaking. Guest
curated by Dr. Richard Pegg, Director and Curator of the MacLean
Collection. Exhibition can be seen in Leventhal Map & Education
Center at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street.
August 6, 2024 - September 8, 2024 – Busan The Busan Museum will hold a special exhibition titled 1674 Gonyeojeondo – Occult World Travel in its special exhibition hall. This event will showcase the “Gonyeojeondo,” a world map created in China in 1674 and later brought to Joseon in the 18th century. The theme exhibition aims to highlight the historical significance and value of the “Gonyeojeondo,” a Western-style world map created in the East during the 17th century. The map was made by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Belgian Jesuit missionary, and reflects the advanced humanities, geography, and scientific achievements of its time. The Busan Museum’s “Gonyeojeondo” is a unique, colored manuscript folding screen map, unlike typical woodblock prints. This exhibit offers visitors a glimpse into the historical context and worldview of the people during that era, as well as the map’s artistic and historical importance.
June 18, 2024 - September 22,
2024 – Lyon
The exhibition Teaching maps: in the
footsteps of cartography at the Bibliothèque de la
Manufacture de l'Université Jean Moulin, 6 Rue Professeur
Rollet, is organized as part of as part of the "International
Conference on the History of Cartography" (ICHC) 2024. The
cartographic approach has accompanied changes in the teaching of
geography since the 19th century. Always present, its place has
gradually been affirmed within the University of Lyon.
August 2, 2024 – September
22, 2024 - New Delhi
In recognition of India’s 78th year
of independence, maps by prominent cartographers like Seutter,
Rennell, Mortier, Lapie, Bonne, and Tallis will be exhibited.
Cartographical Tales: India through Maps – an exhibition
featuring historical maps from the 17th century to 1946 can be seen
at Ojas Art, 1AQ, Near Qutub Minar, Mehrauli.
August 14, 2024 - September 27,
2024 – Stanford
In late July 1585, the Milanese noble
Urbano Monte (1544-1613) decided to make an ambitious world map. This
exhibition, A World In The Making: Urbano Monte's Global Map Circa
1587, reconstructs the world of a virtually unknown Renaissance
mapmaker. It can be seen in Green Library, Bing Wing, David Rumsey
Map Center, 459 Lasuen Mall.
May 3, 2024 - September 28, 2024
– Lyon
Vulnerability ... what do maps say? is
an exhibition organized at the Municipal Archives of Lyon, 1
place des archives, as part of the "International Conference on
the History of Cartography" (ICHC) 2024. The city of Lyon is
vulnerable to a variety of events, whether sudden or long and
undetectable, until they take hold and threaten. This history is
sometimes represented on maps or by images that allow us to grasp its
scale and particularities.
April 6, 2024 - September 29,
2024 – Venice
Venice is commemorating its most famous
citizen Marco Polo with a major exhibition to mark the 700th
anniversary of his death. The show features excavated finds, maps and
books and can be seen in the Doge's Palace. It also includes loans,
including maps, from many countries that the merchant from the
Italian lagoon city traveled to, from Armenia to Mongolia and China.
The exhibition I Mondi di Marco Polo [The Worlds of Marco Polo]
is one of the highlights of a year of Marco Polo events in Venice.
May 15, 2024 - September 29, 2024
– Lyon
Paper paths - Maps and images of travel in
France and elsewhere, 19th-21st century is an exhibition
organized at the Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon, 5 parvis René
Descartes, as part of the "International Conference on the
History of Cartography" (ICHC) 2024. The exhibition combines
objects, archival documents, travel reports and commercial
publications in a chronological and thematic approach that
illustrates the evolution of practices and representations associated
with mobility. Guidebooks from major publishers (Hachette, Michelin,
Baedeker) are presented alongside lesser-known works that illustrate
a local conception of the areas to be visited.
June 6, 2024 - September 30, 2024
- Akureyri, Iceland
An exhibition at the Akureyri Museum,
Aðalstræti 58, Einstök söguleg Íslandskort
1535-1849 [Unique historical maps of Iceland, 1535-1849] features
43 large and small maps of Iceland by major European cartographers.
The exhibition features selected maps from the collection of
Karl-Werner Schulte and Giselu Schulte-Daxbök which were donated
to the Akureyri Museum.
March 16, 2024 – October
2024 - Hagerstown, Maryland
For history buffs, this is an
exciting time to pay a visit to the Washington County Free Public
Library, 100 S Potomac St., and see a display of Revolutionary War
era maps. The exhibit also includes maps donated by Ira Laurie,
who started his own collection of historic maps at his Georgetown
home in the 1970’s. There are a total of 190 maps and atlases
that make up the collection which are on display at the library.