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July 19, 2010 – January 2, 2011 – Princeton
Strait
Through: From Magellan to Cook & the Pacific,
in Princeton University's Firestone Library’s main gallery (One
Washington Road), documents the story of Magellan's circumnavigation
of the world and the drama of the unfolding exploration of the
Pacific Ocean that followed the discovery of the Strait of Magellan.
In rare historic maps and the original printed narratives of the main
European explorers, the exhibition traces 250 years (1520s-1770s) of
both national and personal maritime achievements, as the map of the
Pacific slowly developed into its present shape. Chronological maps
of the Magellan Strait, Pacific Ocean, and Spice Islands (Moluccas)
form the backdrop to exhibition cases devoted to individual explorers
and explorer-pairs: Ferdinand Magellan (d. 1521), Alvaro de Mendaña
de Neira (1542?-1595) and Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (d.
1615), Sir Francis Drake (1540?-1596), Jacques Le Maire (1585-1616)
and Willem Corneliszoon Schouten (d. 1625), Abel Janszoon Tasman
(1603?-1659), William Dampier (1651-1715), Jacob Roggeveen
(1659-1729), Samuel Wallis (1728-1795) and Philip Carteret (d. 1796),
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), and James Cook
(1728-1779). Among the maps on display
will be the first printed map to name the Pacific Ocean (1540), the
first printed map devoted to the Pacific Ocean (1589), the first
printed chart of the whole Pacific Ocean (1650), a handsomely-colored
wall map of the Pacific Ocean considered to be one of the
cartographic masterpieces of the eighteenth century (1719), two of
the most decorative maps of the Magellan Strait (1635), the first
printed English map of Australia (1744), the first large-scale map of
the Moluccas (1640), the earliest map to name all of the Philippine
islands (1601), and the first published map to show Cook’s last
voyage and the first to show Hawaii. Also on view will be a rare
first-state copy of Cook’s twelve-sheet chart of the St.
Lawrence River (1760), the navigator’s first major published
map, which launched his career. The exhibition will be open weekdays
from 9 to 5, and on weekends from noon to 5. Additional
information from the map curator John Delaney.
September 8, 2010 – January 5, 2011 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Rev. Henry Clay Badger, curator of the Harvard
Map Collection from 1889 to 1892, took it as his personal mission to
create a classification system for the 14,000 sheet maps under his
care. Temperamentally ill-disposed to “floundering,” he
devised a scheme to bring order to the chaos of bundled, rolled, and
folded maps. Even in the most rigorous cataloging system, however,
some materials elude categorization. In Badger’s case, he
relegated his misfits to the one part of his scheme not based on
geography. In the exhibit Rev. Badger’s Misfits: Deviations
and Diversions, The Harvard Map
Collection, Pusey Library, Map Gallery Hall explores some of
the “cartographic curiosities” (maps of nonexistent
places, time lines, genealogical tables, comparative charts, lessons
in the art of cartography, puzzles, and geographical games) that
challenged Badger and continue to challenge his successors. For
details contact Joseph Garver at 617-496-8717.
November 15, 2010 – January 7, 2011 - Menlo Park,
California
Exhibit on the history of USGS topographic
mapping from 1884 to the present day can be seen at Building 3
Auditorium and Foyer, 2nd-floor, U.S. Geological Survey, 345
Middlefield Road, 8:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday. The exhibit
traces the history and technological development of USGS topographic
mapping for 125 years from 1884 to 2009. Featuring historical
artifacts and scientific instruments of the past, the display
presents the concept that the Survey helped catalyze today’s
national geospatial information industry through innovations in
mapping, in geographic information systems, and in the provision of
publicly-accessible geospatial data. From field sketching and copper
plates, to The National Map and interactive topographic maps, the
exhibit portrays developments in field surveying, photogrammetry,
cartographic compilation, and printing as interwoven threads of USGS
mapping history.
August 23, 2010 - January 8, 2011 – Arlington, Texas
The
University of Texas at Arlington, Special Collections, Sixth Floor,
Central Library, has an exhibition Charting
Chartered Companies: Concessions to Companies as Mirrored in Maps,
1600-1900. The
exhibit explores companies and how they influenced
regions, history, and cartography. The chartered company, considered
a precursor to the modern corporation, played an important role in
the history of cartography. Chartered companies were an effective
means to encourage overseas exploration, trade, expansion, and
colonial power. Chartered companies often assumed the lead in
settlement, land development, and the building and maintenance of
transportation networks. Companies relied upon maps and charts for
planning, implementation, and operation. A chartered company’s
presence in an area often changed that region’s political,
historical, and cultural boundaries.
October 3, 2010 - January 8, 2011 - Westport,
Connecticut
Visitors can find the coordinates to two new
exhibits on Westport's history at the Westport Historical Society, 25
Avery Place. Putting Westport on the Map and Zoom in on
Westport continue the society's year-long celebration of the
town's 175-year anniversary. Putting Westport on the Map
offers a cartographic take on Westport's history, as it shows the
evolution of the town through old and new maps. Zoom in on Westport
looks at those changes from the air, on the ground, and through the
eyes of local children who visit the society. The maps in the exhibit
focus especially on key moments in Westport's history, such as the
town's incorporation in 1835, and the later annexation of the
property now known as Green's Farms. Putting Westport on the Map
also features rare antique maps of pre-Colonial America, as well as
well as a map of George Washington's horseback journeys in
Connecticut. In addition, the exhibit includes a video introduction
of where the oldest maps were found; rare antique maps of
pre-Colonial America from the Martayan, Lan, Augustyn Inc.
Collection; and early American maps of the area from private local
collectors. A historical collection of globes marking changes in the
world's political geography over centuries, plus atlases, surveying
and cartography tools used for mapping are also on display.
October 19, 2010 - January 8, 2011 – Chicago
Un
acercamiento a la Revolución Mexicana: Libros, mapas,
documentos / Approaching the Mexican Revolution: Books, Maps,
Documents can be seen in the R. R. Donnelley Gallery, Newberry
Library, 60 W. Walton St. The book "Mexican Revolution: Genesis
Under Madero" shows a photo of revolutionary leaders, including
Venustiano Carranza, Pascual Orozco and Francisco I. Madero. There
also are maps - one made by then Chicago-based Rand McNally & Co.
in 1914 - that show the U.S. intervening in the conflict by sending
ships to ports of Tampico and Veracruz. There also are maps of
railroads that were used in the revolution. Resistance forces used
the railroads for moving resources. The exhibit is part of a citywide
observation of the centennial of the start of the Mexican Revolution.
September 17, 2010 - January 9, 2011 – New York
A
new exhibit at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th
Street), turns an historic lens on New York's north-south relations,
highlighting its long and deep roots with the Spanish-speaking world.
Nueva York: 1613-1945 depicts the city as a cultural
crossroads for artists, intellectuals and revolutionary agitators
from Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean. The exhibit features
about 200 objects, including rare maps, letters, paintings, photos,
books and announcements. The city's oldest museum, the New York
Historical Society joined El Museo del Barrio in organizing the
exhibit.
October 2, 2010 – January 9, 2011 –
Pittsburgh
Vatican Splendors – A Journey Through
Faith and Art will be on display at the Senator John Heinz
History Center, 1212 Smallman Street. Viewing hours are from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. daily, with extended holiday hours from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Dec. 20-22 and 26-29 and Jan. 1-9. Vatican Splendors, a
10,000-square-foot exhibition, is one of the largest collections of
art, documents and historically significant objects from the Vatican
ever to tour North America. There are 200 items from the collections
of the Vatican, and 30 percent have never been outside the Vatican.
Items in the collection include mosaics, frescoes, paintings by
Renaissance masters, works by well-known sculptors, intricately
embroidered silk vestments, precious objects from the Papal Mass,
uniforms of the Papal Swiss Guard, historical maps and documents and
relics.
October 17, 2010 - January 9, 2011 – Santa Fe
The
New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Avenue, and Department of
Cultural Affairs proudly announce that El Archivo General de Indias
(the General Archive of the Indies) in Seville, Spain, has chosen
Santa Fe for the American debut of El Hilo de la Memoria [The
Threads of Memory] an exhibit of rare documents, illustrations
and maps detailing Spain’s early presence in North America. The
exhibit - nearly 140 documents spanning Ponce de León’s
first contact in Florida through New Mexico’s incorporation as
a U.S. Territory – will premiere in the museum’s Albert
and Ethel Herzstein Gallery before traveling to the El Paso Museum of
History (starting January 22) and the Historic New Orleans
Collection. “As Santa Fe celebrates its 400th anniversary this
year, this exhibit underscores a part of American history too often
overlooked in our classrooms,” said Dr. Frances Levine,
director of the New Mexico History Museum. “Before Jamestown
was settled and long before Western Expansion defined us, Spanish
explorers began documenting and colonizing the nation. They gave
Europeans some of their first glimpses of a far-away land and planted
the seeds of a culture that flourishes today.”
October 28, 2010 – January 14, 2011 - Waco , Texas
The
Texas Collection, Baylor University Libraries, One Bear Place, has a
new exhibit called Mapping it Out: A Cartographic History of
Texas. On display are twenty-one original maps dating from 1656
to 1887. These maps tell a story of Texas: from early exploration by
the Spanish, through colonization, struggles for independence from
Mexico, and statehood before and after the Civil War. They
demonstrate technological improvements and record political
conflicts. They bring us closer to understanding the craftsmen and
entrepreneurs who made it their business to show settlers the way to
Texas. And these maps connect us to the land which captured
cartographers’ imaginations.
October 1, 2010 - January 23, 2011 - Santa Fe
In
1519, Hernán Cortés and a small group of Spanish
soldiers made first contact with the Aztecs. The stories they sent
back to Europe detailing the wealth and sophistication of the Aztec
empire astonished their countrymen – and fed 300 years of
efforts to write and re-write the story of the Mexican Conquest. The
New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Avenue, will present Imagining
Mexico: From the Aztec Empire to Colonial New Spain, an original
exhibit featuring books, prints and maps from the Fray Angélico
Chávez History Library’s John Bourne Collection of
Meso-Americana, the Rare Books Collection, and the Map Collection. A
1769 map by Antonio Alzate of Mexico was one of the earliest to use
the names Texas and California (though it shows the latter as an
island). An 1803 map by Alexander von Humboldt of Germany shows the
route of El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe.
November 10, 2010 - January 31, 2011 - Chapel Hill
The
exhibit, Unearthing Native History: The University of North
Carolina Catawba Archaeological Project, will be open in The
North Carolina Collection / University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, CB#3930, Wilson Library. It traces the lives of the Catawba
Indians and their ancestors from the 1500s through the 20th century.
“The underlying message of the exhibit, incorporating multiple
lines of evidence, is the persistence of native societies in the face
of European contact,” said Steve Davis of the UNC Research
Laboratories of Archaeology, whose faculty and students unearthed the
exhibited artifacts and many more. “The site-specific exhibit
cases, which mostly contain the stuff of everyday life, tell a story
of adaptation and accommodation through the gradual transformation of
the material culture and community arrangement from wholly native to
increasingly Euro-American. Ultimately, it is a story of Catawba
survival in the face of sometimes overwhelming odds.” Visitors
will see pottery, beads, ornaments, stone and metal tools, items of
both Native American and English manufacture, historical maps,
travelers’ accounts and archaeological evidence from six
village sites excavated in North Carolina and South Carolina. The
exhibit also examines the Catawba’s enduring pottery-making
tradition, which is unparalleled in the eastern United States. The
Catawba lived for centuries along the Catawba and Watteree rivers in
North and South Carolina. The exhibit is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
weekdays; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays; and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays,
but closed on University holidays.
January 17-31, 2011 – Manila
SM City Baguio in
partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Manila presents City
Beautiful: The Burnham Plan for Manila’s Urban Development,
an exhibition featuring vintage photos, maps, and models that
highlight American urban planner Daniel Hudson Burnham’s grand
plan for Manila at the turn of the 20th century. Daniel Burnham was
commissioned by the American government to design and implement a
blueprint for the capital of the Philippines, their new trophy
colony. His urban design lays out a concerted attempt to signal the
arrival of Manila as the most beautiful and progressive city in Asia.
The exhibit can be seen in the atrium.
September 11, 2010 - February 6, 2011 - Alpine, Texas
During
the second half of the nineteenth century, the initials GTT –
Gone to Texas – were the standard farewell given before people
set off on the arduous and often dangerous journey to the Lone Star
State. Now, the Museum of the Big Bend invites armchair adventurers,
map aficionados and anyone interested in the history of Texas to
scratch GTT on their doors and head to the museum, located on the
campus of Sul Ross State University. Going to Texas: Five
Centuries of Texas Maps is an exhibit which features 64 of the
most important maps in the history of Texas, covering a period from
the early sixteenth century up to the present. These maps demonstrate
the extent of geographical knowledge of the Lone Star State at the
time they were printed; the art of the cartographers who made them,
and the historical and cultural forces which were part of the western
expansion of the United States. These maps are part of the Yana and
Marty Davis map collection at the Museum of the Big Bend. They have
been featured in a book by the same title as the upcoming exhibit,
published by TCU in 2007, and have been part of an important exhibit
traveling the state for the last three years. The maps have now
returned home and, for the first time, will be on display at the
Museum of the Big Bend. The Museum of the Big Bend is open Tuesday
through Saturday, 9am to 5pm, and Sunday, 1 to 5pm. For more
information on this exhibit, contact Matt Walter at 432-837-8735.
September 16, 2010 - February 6, 2011 – Bonn
Renaissance
am Rhein [Renaissance on the Rhine] is an exhibition at
LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Colmantstrasse 14-16, devoted to art, history
and culture of regions and cities along the Rhine during the
Renaissance. Among the 300 exhibits are maps, instruments, and other
documents by and on cartographers of this period; from Cusanus, via
Johannes Ruysch, Kaspar Vopelius, Christian Sgrooten up to Gerald
Mercator and his son Arnold.. These maps, town plans and views
represent an essential component of the intellectual and scientific
milieu of that time.
November 11, 2010 - February 26, 2011 – Zurich
Map
World: The Map Collection of the Central Library Zurich is an
exhibit of a journey through four worlds: for globetrotters, related
world maps, fictional worlds, and a changing world. Open in the
Central Library, Zähringerplatz 6, Monday to Friday from
1300-1700, Saturday from 1300-1600; guided tours on Fridays at 1300.
January 29, 2011 - February 26, 2011 - Los Angeles
Changing
Boundaries: Historic Maps of the U.S.-Mexico Border is a group of
original maps dating from as early as 1600 from the Collection of
Simon Burrow. Maps tell stories. The Latin American Studies Program
and Cross Cultural Centers of California State University bring you
this enlightening exhibit of historic maps. The maps examine the
evolution of the US-Mexico border over the last four centuries. The
exhibit answers questions about the Battle of Los Angeles,
California's mistaken geography as an island and current immigration
policy. The exhibit is in the first floor of the Fine Arts Building.
and is open Monday to Thursday and Saturday noon to 5 pm.
January 18, 2011 - February 28, 2011 – Nairobi
The
Embassy of Spain, CBA building, Mara and Ragati Rds. Upper Hill,
announces an Africa Maps Exhibition; open week-days 8am –
3:30pm. This exhibition of old Africa maps will take us on a trip
through geographical knowledge and history in Africa. As part of the
Hispanic-Kenian Cultural Forum, this exhibition is curated by
specialist Javier Serrano. Additional information from Federico
Olivieri.
January 20, 2011 - February 28, 2011 – Athens
The
exhibition Abraham Ortelius’ Greece. Maps from Margarita
Samourka’s Collection features original maps of Abraham
Ortelius that are displayed in the Basil Room of the Gennadius
Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 54 Souidias
Street. The exhibition presents the maps of the Greek world that were
included in the works of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), the "Theatrum
Orbis Terrarum" (Theater of the World), the first atlas in the
modern sense of the term, as well as in the "Parergon," the
annex of historical maps of the Theatrum. The maps of modern
geography included in the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum"
(1570-1598) all come from the large map collection compiled by
Abraham Ortelius.
January 29, 2011 - March 27, 2011 - Greyhound Hill, Hendon
An
exhibition detailing the history behind one of the world's most
iconic designs has gone on display in Hendon. The London Tube map,
created by Finchley resident Harry Beck, went on to inspire and
influence thousands of similar designs across the globe. Now, the
Church Farmhouse Museum on Greyhound Hill, is giving residents the
chance to explore the painstaking research, development and
persuasion process Beck had to contend with in order to get his
design recognised. The exhibition, based on a local private
collection, traces the development of the London Underground Map from
the 19th Century to the present day. The Church Farmhouse Museum is
open: Monday - Thursday 10am-1pm; 2pm-5pm; Saturday 10am-1pm;
2pm-5.30pm; Sunday 2pm-5.30pm. For more information about the
exhibition, telephone: 0208 359 3942.
November 30, 2010 - March 31, 2011 – Brussels
Istanbul
Centre in Brussels, Avenue des Arts 46, hosts the exhibition Bird’s
Eye View of Istanbul which presents some of the most stunning
city maps ever produced about Istanbul from 15th to 20th centuries.
The exhibit focuses on maps drawn during the 15th and 16th centuries
by three well-known cartographers – Schedell, Buondelmonti and
Vavassore – along with other work from the Byzantine period
extending up to the 20th century.
June 2010 - March 2011 - San Diego
Mapping the
Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark. The Quivira Collection
is a world class exhibition showcasing 45 magnificent maps, books and
illustrations, dated 1544 through 1802, of the west coast of North
America. It invites viewers on a voyage of exploration from the first
tentative probing by European explorers through Thomas Jefferson’s
commission of the Corps of Discovery. The 29 maps, 11 illustrations
and 5 books that comprise the collection have been on tour in museums
throughout the country, and have been viewed by thousands of people
of all ages. It can now be seen at the Maritime Museum of San Diego,
1492 North Harbor Drive.
November 19, 2010 - March 2011 - Midland, Texas
The
Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine and the Petroleum Museum have
partnered by opening the Westward For Wealth exhibit at the
Petroleum Museum, 1500 West Interstate 20. The maps on display are
from the Museum of the Big Bend’s Yana & Marty Davis Map
Collection. In this exhibit, the maps are used to illustrate the
westward expansion for wealth.
October 16, 2010 - April 2, 2011 - Aberystwyth, Ceredigion,
Wales
The National
Library of Wales has a major exhibition on the history of travel and
exploration in Wales and beyond - Small World - Travel in Wales
and Beyond. The main exhibition itself will include a number of
maps and other items from the Library’s unique collections. In
addition to this an exhibition of maps called Putting Wales on the
map is being displayed.
March 23, 2011 – April 10, 2011 – Valletta
An
exhibition of specially selected antique maps and plans of Valletta
will be held at the National Museum of Fine Arts,South Street; hours
9 – 17.00. This exhibition is being held to mark the donation
to Heritage Malta of Dr. Albert Ganado's manuscripts of his two
magnus opae: “A Study In Depth of 143 Maps Representing the
Great Siege of Malta of 1565” and “Valletta Citta Nuova:
A Map History from 1565 – 1600.”
January 22, 2011 - April 17, 2011 - Treviso, Italy
Atlante
Trevigiano [Atlases of Treviso] can be seen at Fondazione
Benetton, via Cornarotta, 7. The exhibit features cartography and
iconography of cities and the territory of Treviso from the fifteenth
to the twentieth century organized by Fondazione Benetton Studi
Ricerche. Open Tue to Fri 15-20, Sat / Sun 10-20. Additional
information from 39 0422 5121.
January 22, 2011 - April 24, 2011 - El Paso, Texas
El
Archivo General de Indias (the General Archive of the Indies) in
Seville, Spain has has loaned nearly 140 documents spanning Ponce de
León’s first contact in Florida through New Mexico’s
incorporation as a U.S. Territory for the exhibit El Hilo de la
Memoria, España y los Estados Unidos [The Threads of Memory,
Spain & the United States]. The exhibit, at the El Paso
Museum of History, 510 N. Santa Fe, includes rare documents,
illustrations and maps detailing Spain’s early presence in
North America. The exhibit will next go to the Historic New Orleans
Collection.
March 22, 2011 - April 28, 2011 – London
From the
great African Kings and Empires from 3000BC to the complex trade
networks and migration of Africans within the continent and across
the world, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s new
Rediscovering African Geographies exhibition uses maps,
photographs and literature from our Collections to travel through
Africa’s history. Rediscovering African Geographies shows,
from an African perspective, how culture, international relations,
language and conflict have shaped the geography we know today. It
reveals often neglected stories and how these records of African
societies, cultures and landscapes helped shape and inform European
views of this continent and its people.
August 14, 2010 - April 30, 2011 - Dayton, Virginia
The
Heritage Museum, 382 High Street, will host a special exhibit of the
maps of Major Jedidiah Hotchkiss - Jed Hotchkiss, Shenandoah
Valley Mapmaker during the Civil War. He was the chief map-maker
for Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson during the Civil
War. The maps are on loan from the Library of Congress.
November 11, 2010 – April 30, 2011 – Rochester, New
York
A collection of some of
the earliest maps and drawings of Western New York are being donated
to the University of Rochester, which will feature the rare prints in
a free exhibition in Rush Rhees Library. The collection includes the
first map printed in the colony of New York, dated 1723, as well as
the earliest known drawing of the region, a circa 1768 etching of the
Upper Falls of the Genesee River. The collection consists of more
than 40 rare maps, prints, books, and copper engravings recently
donated to the library's Rare Books and Special Collections
Department by Dr. Seymour Schwartz. The Distinguished Alumni
Professor of century development of Western New York from its days as
the home of Native American tribes to its division into vast land
tracks in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase Surgery in the University's
School of Medicine and Dentistry, Schwartz also is a renowned map
historian. The collection charts the 18th- and 19th-to its emergence
as a commercial shipping artery along the newly constructed Erie
Canal.
March 15, 2011 - April 30, 2011 – Manila
The
Ateneo de Manila University Ricardo Leong Center for Chinese Studies
opened Bridging East and West, a free public art exhibit
commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Fr. Matteo Ricci,
S.J., a Jesuit pioneer of inculturation. The ongoing exhibit at the
Pardo de Tavera Room of the old Rizal Library features missionary and
secular art, artifacts and books which illustrate cultural
interchange between East and West— Philippines, Macau, China,
Japan, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Baja and California—in the
context of the Jesuit missions. The exhibit especially emphasizes the
Jesuit missionary work in China, led by Fr. Ricci. Also included in
the exhibit is an old map collection from former School of Humanities
Dean Leo Garcia.
April 7, 2011 - May 7, 2011 – Milan
L'Italia
prima dell'Italia - Carte geografiche e topografiche dell’Italia
dal 1478 al 1861" [Italy before Italy - Geographical and Large
Scale Maps of Italy since 1478 to 1861] can
be seen at Centro Studi Manzoniani in the House of Manzoni (Via
Morone, 1). The exhibition, organized by the Associazione
"Roberto Almagià" (Italian map collector Society),
is one of the events of the150th year from the Unity of Italy, on the
behalf of the National Commission, with the support of the Società
Geografica Italiana (Italian Geographical Society) Centro Studi per
gli Studi Storico-Geografici (Center for the Historic-Geographical
Studies) and the University IUAv of Venice. In the exhibition-the
first exhibition of Maps of Italy ever made-will be on display 59
maps (some multi-sheets and wall maps) from the Roman Edition (1478)
of Ptolemy's Geography to large scale mapping of Italian States in
XIX century. A catalog edited by Vladimiro Valerio (158 pages in
color) has been published.
March 2, 2011 - May 16, 2011 - Hong Kong
This year marks
the centenary of the 1911 Revolution, an epoch-making event that had
far-reaching consequences for the Chinese people, including the end
of imperial rule and the birth of Asia's first republic. To
commemorate this remarkable event, an exhibition titled Centenary
of China's 1911 Revolution will be held at the Hong Kong Museum
of History, 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
(next to the Hong Kong Science Museum). This exhibition showcases
over 150 exhibits from Hubei Provincial Museum and other collections
as well as historical images, videos and maps to illustrate this
milestone in China's modern history and also highlight the immense
contribution that Hong Kong made to this revolution.
January 18, 2011 – May 18, 2011 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Michael Buehler (of Boston Rare Maps) is
guest-curator of an exhibition at the Harvard Map Collection, Pusey
Library, Map Gallery Hall. The title is Toward a National
Cartography: American Mapmaking, 1782-1800. This exhibition
documents the development of mapmaking in the United States in the
years immediately following the American Revolution. That period saw
the emergence of a cartography that was distinctly American,
different in goals, subject matter, methods, iconography and
aesthetics from the British maps that had dominated the Colonial era.
Twenty-one maps will be exhibited, most of them of the greatest
rarity, organized into six broad themes. The first three - “Nation,”
“States,” and “Towns” - emphasize different
spheres of allegiance and identity, a profound challenge to those
early leaders who sought to erect a cohesive republic. The latter
three - “Navigation,” “Expansion,” and
“Connection” - highlight maps produced in support of
three epic projects, each essential to fostering a coherent national
territory. Despite the many differences of goals, content and style,
the stories behind each highlight the entrepreneurial, ad hoc, and
dynamic character of American mapmaking in the postwar period. For
details contact Joseph Garver at 617-496-8717 or Michael Buehler at
413-527-4020.
January 15, 2011 – May 23, 2011 - Knoxville,
Tennessee
Maps dating to Christopher Columbus's time and
today's latest global positioning devices show the range of a new
Frank H. McClung Museum (University of Tennessee, 1327 Circle Park
Drive) exhibit. Mapping the New World focuses on maps and how
they were made and used for hundreds of years. By showing how maps
developed over 350 years, the exhibit illustrates how man's
perception of the world has changed. Twenty-nine original maps dating
from 1493 to 1847 are the focus of the exhibit. Nineteen of the
earliest are on loan from renowned map collector and New York
resident W. Graham Arader III. Another 10 maps depict Tennessee and
parts of the Southeastern United States and come from the UT
Libraries' Special Collections. They include a 1657 map of what is
now the southern part of the United States, 18th-century diagrams of
the Cherokee nation and a 1847 map of the state of Tennessee.
March 24, 2011 – May 23, 2011 – New Haven
The
George Washington Atlas, one of the jewels of the Yale Map
Department, recently underwent some much-needed conservation
treatment. America
Transformed: From George Washington's American Atlas to the 21st
Century features
facsimiles from the Yale Map Department's George Washington American
Atlas and modern mirror maps made from cartographic data contained in
the department's GIS Collection. Exhibit can be seen at Sterling
Memorial Library, Memorabilia Room, 120 High St. Open Monday-Friday
8:30 AM - 4:45 PM.
November 11, 2010 - May 29, 2011 – Athens
An
exhibition of maps of the Aegean Sea from the 15th to the 17th
century can be seen at the Eynardou Mansion on the corner of 20 Agiou
Constantinou and Menandrou streets off Omonia Square in downtown
Athens. The exhibition is titled Το Αιγαίο
Πέλαγος. Χαρτογραφία
και ιστορία,
15ος - 17ος αιώνας
[The Aegean Sea - Cartography and History 15th-17th century], and
the exhibits are from the Greek Cartography Archives collection. The
Greek Cartography Archive was founded in 2002 with a donation by
Victor and Niovi Mela of their old maps collection to the National
Bank of Greece's Cultural Foundation. The Eynardou Mansion houses the
National Bank's Cultural Foundation.
January 30, 2011 - May 30, 2011 - Bennington, Vermont
Founding
Documents is an exhibit, at the Bennington Museum, 75 Main
Street, that commemorates the 250th anniversary of the settlement of
Bennington. Archival documents from the museum's collection relevant
to the settlement and early decades of life in Bennington will be on
view. The exhibit covers the history of the town from the late 18th
century to the early 19th century.
October 22, 2010 - May 31, 2011 - New Bern, North Carolina
Bern
New Bern is an international exhibit on the relationship between
New Bern and mother city Bern, Switzerland in the Duffy Exhibit
Gallery, North Carolina History Center, 529 S. Front Street. Included
are 18th- and 19th-century silver and furniture made in Eastern North
Carolina; selections from a noted local collection of historic
African American art and artifacts; a significant group of printed
and manuscript maps of New Bern and the surrounding region; and rare
manuscripts, photographs, and artifacts that document the Civil War
experience in North Carolina.
February 23, 2011 - May 31, 2011 - Ithaca, New York
The
Maps and Media Unit in the Research & Learning Services
Department of Olin & Uris Libraries, invites you to visit the
exhibit, Unusual Maps: Exploring Different Geographies,
displayed in the lower level lobby of Olin Library. A “strange”
map must contain something out of the ordinary. It may depict, for
instance, California as an island. Or, it may transmit information
about places that do not exist, like the world map of human
experience. It may be the basis for the creation of a popular
literary work, as in the case of R. L. Stevenson’s Treasure
Island. Such “strange” maps present cartographic
techniques used to map “different geographies” that are
outside the usual cartographer’s bailiwick, like the mapping of
Cyberspace, or the map showing the ZIP codes where the rap artist
Ludacris claims to have had romantic encounters. The maps in the
exhibit are arranged in seven categories: Cartographic
Misconceptions, Fantasy, Literature, Politics and Propaganda, Art,
Cyberspace, and Popular Culture. Some of them are part of the Cornell
University Library Map Collection, others come as illustrations in
books, and still others were downloaded, mostly from Wikimedia
Commons, and The Library of Congress map depository.
February 1, 2011 – May 2011 - Schenectady, New York
The
Art in Cartography exhibit
highlights the collection of the Schenectady County Historical
Society. This exhibit features maps, atlases, and artifacts from the
Society’s collection, including its two most recently conserved
objects, maps of New York State completed by Simeon Dewitt (1802) and
Claude Joseph Sauthier (1779), displayed alongside other state, city,
county, and land plot maps. This exhibit will not only focus on the
evolution of cartography, but also the cartographers themselves, and
it will take note of the artwork that many of these maps showcase.
From the hand drawn maps of James Frost to the engravings included on
the maps of John Calvin Smith, this exhibit will be visually exciting
and interesting to all visitors. Schenectady County Historical
Society, 32 Washington Avenue; Phone: 518-374-0263; Hours: 9-5, M-F,
10-2 Sat.
February 11, 2011 - June 5, 2011 – Southampton
Ordnance
Survey has joined forces with Southampton City Council to celebrate
over 160 years of history between the map makers and the city with an
exhibition at the Maritime Museum, The Wool House, Town Quay Road.
Ordnance Survey In Southampton: Mapping Great Britain Since 1791
celebrates not only a long association between the national mapping
agency and the city of Southampton, but also the Ordnance Survey's
recent move to a new head office at Adanac Park, near the M271. As
well as a number of artifacts illustrating past surveying and
cartographic techniques there is a mine of information on Ordnance
Survey, past and present. Take the opportunity to discover more about
the national mapping agencies three homes in the city since
transferring from the Tower of London is 1842 and how the Southampton
Blitz affected the organisation.
May 14, 2011 – June 26, 2011 – Oxford
We
are pleased to announce that an exhibition of the late medieval Gough
Map of Great Britain will take place in the Proscholium, Bodleian
Library. The exhibition – Linguistic
geographies: three centuries of language, script and cartography in
the Gough Map of Great Britain -
will be a rare public display of the map along with a copy of Richard
Gough's 'British Topography' and its engraving of the map that gained
his name. These two key documents of English cartographic history
will provide visitors with a valuable opportunity to see close-up the
fine details of the Gough map, and in particular the writing that
appears on it. The map's script is a key to understanding its making
and use, and the exhibition will offer new interpretations based upon
the on-going "Linguistic Geographies" research project
funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The exhibition is
organised by the Linguistic Geographies project team, with particular
inputs from Nick Millea and Elizabeth Solopova. The team wish to
thank the Bodleian Library for its support of this exhibition, as
well as the Arts and Humanities Research Council. For more
information contact Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library,
Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Tel: 01865 287119, Fax: 01865 277139.
October 26, 2010 - June 2011 – Palermo
The exhibit
named La Sicilia raccontata dai cartografi [Sicily through the
eyes of cartographers] gathers together the atlases, all original
copies, owned by Antonio La Gumina that have already been put on
display since 1999 in New York, Brussels and Paris. For thirty years
La Gumina was the director of the Banco di Sicilia branch, and for
four three-year terms directed the Italian/French Chamber of
Commerce. In the rooms of the lodge of palazzo d'Orleans, seat of the
Regional Council of Sicily, Piazza Indipendenza n. 21, there are on
display many pocket atlases, known as the ''isolari'', a branch of
cartography born in Venice during the 15th Century needed for
navigation in the Mediterranean which are dedicated, as the name
says, to the islands, and there are also nautical charts. They trace
the evolution of cartography up to the 19th Century and show how
Sicily was seen: from the rough outlines of 15th and 16th Centuries
to the progressively more detailed and precise ones of the 19th
Century which were also carried out for administrative reasons. The
most ancient is a Ptolemaic chart dated 1480 and there is also a
chart dated 1860 that belonged to Nino Bixio.
April 13, 2011 – July 8, 2011 – Jena
Globus,
Kubus, Kegel ... Kartographische Weltbilder um 1800 [Globe, cube,
cone ... Cartographic images of the world in 1800] can be seen at
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Berggasse 7.
May 10, 2011 - July 10, 2011 - New Orleans
El Archivo
General de Indias (the General Archive of the Indies) in Seville,
Spain has has loaned nearly 140 documents spanning Ponce de León’s
first contact in Florida through New Mexico’s incorporation as
a U.S. Territory for the exhibit El Hilo de la Memoria, España
y los Estados Unidos [The Threads of Memory, Spain & the United
States]. The exhibit, at the Historic New Orleans Collection, 533
Royal Street, includes rare documents, illustrations and maps
detailing Spain’s early presence in North America.
May 16, 2011 - July 10, 2011 – Lyon
Une
Cartographie Missionnaire / L’Afrique explorée,
représentée, appropriée can
be seen at Œuvres Pontificales Missionnaires, 12 rue Sala. Open
Monday to Friday 9h-12h, 13h-17h30.
July 8-23, 2011 - Bar Harbor, Maine
Like many a Maine
home buyer, when Martha Stewart moved into her renowned Seal Harbor
home, Skylands, built by Edsel Ford, she wanted to know a bit more
about the territory - past and present. One result of Stewart's
investigation into Maine's terrain is a stunning map collection.
Approximately 30 items will be exhibited this summer at College of
the Atlantic's Ethel H. Blum Gallery. The show, Charting a Story:
Martha Stewart's Maine Map Collection is open Monday through
Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Ethel H. Blum Gallery is located on
the second floor of the Gates Community Center, directly above the
McCormick Lecture Hall.
May 28, 2011 - July 24, 2011 - Winona, Minnesota
Minnesota
on the Map is at the Winona County History Center, 160 Johnson
Street. The exhibit features a dozen maps from Minnesota Historical
Society collections, from Louis Hennepin's 1683 map of the upper
Mississippi River Valley to a satellite map of Minnesota produced by
NASA. In addition, a video station provides commentary on a selection
of the maps. Other exhibit elements include a bin of laminated maps
that visitors can sort through for an in-depth look at Minnesota's
geography and an oversized jigsaw puzzle map of Minnesota that will
engage school children and other young visitors. The Winona County
Historical Society will bring out maps from their own collection to
exhibit with this traveling exhibit.
March 18, 2011 – July 30, 2011 - Watertown,
Massachusetts
The Armenian Library and Museum of America, 65
Main Street, will open a new exhibit Where in the World is
Armenia?, examining the historical borders of Armenia and the
role of maps in the public image of the country in Western societies.
The exhibit is based on the Armen Esserian Map Collection at the
Armenian Library, supplemented by works from other important
collections in the archives. It showcases historical 17th to 19th
century maps that reflect the changing notion of Armenia and the
world around it over millennia. The exhibit will be featured in the
Museum’s 3rd floor Contemporary Art Gallery.
February 3, 2011 - July 31, 2011 - Hays, Kansas
The
Special Collections Area of Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State
University, 502 South Campus Drive, invites you to come celebrate
Kansas’ 150th birthday with a special Sesquicentennial
Exhibition in
the South Study Area. The exhibit includes petroglyphs, maps,
model buildings, printing plates, stuffed tigers and other
memorabilia of FHSU. The map collection consists of seven framed maps
of Kansas dating from 1855-1879.
April 5, 2011 - August 5, 2011 - Santiago de Compostela,
Galicia
The Biblioteca de Galicia and the Cidade da Cultura de
Galicia have organized an exhibition, Cartografia antiga de
Galicia [Mapping Ancient Galicia], on the history of the
cartography of this Spanish region. The exhibit includes maps from
the 16th to 19th centuries. A few highlights: the large map (2.45 x
2.25 m) of the region made by Domingo Fontán after a 18-year
long survey (19th century), the earliest extant separate map of
Galicia (1603), and nautical charts by Lucas Jans Waghenaer (end of
16th century).
February 16, 2011 - August 11, 2011 - Bowling Green,
Kentucky
Our cultural and physical geography is showcased by
mapmakers through county land ownership, large-scale topographic and
thematic maps, and other maps that portray a geographic area at a
particular point in time. Mapmaking is the story of heroes and
everyday routines. They are tools and yet many are works of art.
Finding Our Way: Maps & Mapmaking is a sample of the
Kentucky Library and Museum’s map collections. Exhibit on
display in the Brown Gallery, The Kentucky Library & Museum,
Western Kentucky University.
March 14, 2011 - August 13, 2011 – Philadelphia
Between
1572 and 1617, Georg Braun, editor, and Franz Hogenberg, engraver,
produced the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, a multi-volume collection of
views of cities of the world published to complement the first modern
atlas, Abraham Ortelius' “Theatrum
Orbis Terrarum,” a map collection first published
in 1570. Renaissance City Views from Above and Afar exhibits
collector Jack Sosiak's large group of Braun and Hogenberg's city
views, together with related city views from Penn's own collections.
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with a gathering of
contributors to the Oxford Handbook on Cities in History. Exhibit is
in Kamin Gallery, 1st floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center,
University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street. Gallery hours:
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.
April 22, 2011 - August 14, 2011 – Nottingham
Maps
provide a fascinating point of entry to different cultures and
different times. Though their function was often practical,
demonstrating ownership and land management, they can also be works
of beauty and imagination. Scattered through the archives and rare
book collections at the University of Nottingham are many examples of
maps, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. While each item
tells its own story of creation and use, the narrative of the display
concerns the people of the Midlands, their knowledge of the physical
world and the significance of maps in their lives. The common theme
is often one of property and power, but items also illustrate the
development of communities in a rural landscape and the pace of urban
growth. At an international level we see political aspirations and
British perceptions of foreign lands. The exhibit Home and Abroad
- Maps From The Historic Collection looks back from our current
familiarity with satellite navigation and digital mapping to
celebrate an age of physical maps, in exhibits ranging from the
simplicity of a few sketched lines and scribbled names to
sophisticated examples of cartographic publication. Exhibit can be
seen at Weston Gallery, DH Lawrence Pavilion, Lakeside Arts Centre,
University Park.
March 18, 2011 - August 20, 2011 - Gainesville,
Florida
Cartography from the Age of Exploration
celebrates the 80th Anniversary of the University of Florida Center
for Latin American Studies with a collection of maps dating to the
16th and 17th centuries from collector and UF alumnus Steven Keats.
Keats’ collection primarily focuses on cartography of the
Americas and the Caribbean by European explorers. The exhibition
includes works from Martin Walseemueler, author of the first map of
the Western Hemisphere; and Sebastian Munster, author of the first
map to conceptualize North and South America as separate continents.
Other highlights are two 1572 city views of Cusco and Mexico City, an
illustrated map of Walter Releigh’s search of El Dorado, and a
1609 depiction of Asia. While an undertone of the exhibition alludes
to mercantile enterprises that later developed into colonialism, the
maps also exemplify artistic and textual stylizations, popular myths
and folklores, and common assumptions of the time. Grinter Gallery
hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The gallery is
closed weekends and holidays. Grinter Gallery is located in the main
lobby of Grinter Hall, next to the University Auditorium, on the
University of Florida campus. For further information, please contact
the University Gallery at 352-273-3000.
April 16, 2011 ~ August 21, 2011 - Richmond
If you
stared at a map, what would it tell you about its people? Maps not
only convey the location of people and places, but the ways in which
these people behave. Since the 18th century- and with the growth of
technology- maps and their making have evolved in new and dramatic
ways. Visit Wilton House Museum, 215 S. Wilton Road, to tour this
special exhibit, Get Found: Mapping Place and Time?, curated
by students of Virginia Commonwealth University's Museum Studies
program, to "hear" and see what maps and the modern world
will say to you.
June 21, 2011 – August 21, 2011 – Paris
Carnets
de Route des Explorateurs d’Afrique [African Explorers’
itineraries] at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France,
François Mitterand site, Quai François-Mauriac, Paris
13e. Everyday from 09:00 to 20:00, admission free. Métro Line
6 (Quai de la Gare), Métro Line 14 and RER (Bibliothèque
François Mitterand). Tel +(01) 53.79.59.59.
July 8, 2011 - August 21, 2011 - Shawnee, Oklahoma
The
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art opened the exhibition, Wherever You Go:
Maps from the Joe Marenghi Collection. This exhibition consists
of 16th and 17th century maps. Most of the maps originally came from
books. They depict areas all around the world from Italy to England
to Africa. In the hands-on area, there will be different kinds of
maps including one where visitors can mark where they live. The
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art is located on the campus of St. Gregory’s
University, 1900 W. MacArthur St. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sundays.
March 8, 2011 - August 25, 2011 - Portland, Maine
The
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education,
University of Southern Maine, announces its new exhibit. Printed
Maps of the District and State of Maine, 1793-1860, celebrates
Edward V. Thompson’s recent publication of the same title
(published by the Nimue Books & Prints in Bangor). This period is
very important in the geographic history of Maine and the
cartographic history of the United States because it was during this
time that Maine’s boundaries were established and the state was
organized as a discrete territory. When the first map of Maine was
printed in 1793, Maine had only five counties; the sixteenth and last
was formed in 1860. The maps published between these two dates reveal
the steady increase in people’s geographical knowledge about
the state: the location and contours of interior lakes and rivers;
the construction of an extensive railroad system; the laying out of
new townships; and the expansion of Maine’s ports and mill
towns. For the United States, the decades from the ratification of
the Constitution to the outbreak of the Civil War witnessed the
emergence and maturation of a distinctive cartographic tradition.
Printed Maps of Maine displays key examples of the wide variety of
works produced, from atlas maps (including a very rare “rolled”
atlas), wall maps, pocket maps, and maps from books and newspapers. A
wide range of “quality” is evident in the maps on
display, from true cartographic masterpieces by some of the greatest
U.S. mapmakers to news maps intended to have only a short life.
May 30, 2011 – August 26, 2011 – Edinburgh,
Scotland
Housing Paper Worlds displays architectural
designs and 11 new maps of Edinburgh by Dundee University
architecture students in collaboration with the National Library of
Scotland. The fourth-year students have designed a new Cartographic
Institute in Edinburgh, based on two currently vacant sites. Striking
and original artwork, designs and plans for the building are
displayed in the NLS Maps Reading Room, setting the sites in context.
The maps were created to develop a cultural, economic, historical,
architectural, and geographic understanding of the city. These
insights have informed the designs for the new institute in the heart
of Edinburgh's Old Town. The display is free and open to the public:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 9.30-17.00; Wednesday:
10.00-17.00; Saturday: 9.30-13.00.
August 4-28, 2011 - Phnom Penh
Fifty-four
extremely rare First Maps of Cambodia will go on show for the
first time at an exhibition at the French Cultural Centre, 218 Street
184. Made by unknown artists and showing a variety of styles and
scripts, the maps were offered to King Norodom Sihamoni by the École
française d’Extrême-Orient last year. Even though
scholars have been unable to find out who commissioned them, they
estimate they were drawn some time between 1884 and 1892, during the
reign of King Norodom I and the French protectorate. The maps are
captioned in Khmer and all the provinces are represented in a great
diversity of forms.
July 22, 2011 - August 29, 2011 – Brighton
A
treasure trove of historical artwork hidden in a cottage for 60 years
is to go on public display for the first time. This summer the
University of Brighton is mounting a retrospective exhibition of the
work of MacDonald (Max) Gill: Out of the Shadows: MacDonald
(‘Max’) Gill decorative map posters. Max Gill was
best known for pictorial maps and in 1914, his “Wonderground”
map of the London Underground system sold in its thousands and
inspired a resurgence of pictorial and decorative map-making in
Britain, the United States, Latin America and Australia. This rich
and absorbing visual panorama will provide a long overdue opportunity
to rediscover and appreciate the work of a remarkable, influential
and multi-talented artist, designer and architect of the first half
of the twentieth century. Exhibit can be seen at the Sallis Benney
Theatre and University Gallery. Further enquiries about the
exhibition should be addressed to Madeleine Meadows.
July 11, 2011 – August 31, 2011 – Moscow
For
the Good of Art and Science can
be seen at the State
Historical Museum, Red Square. The exhibition coincides with the
opening of the International Conference on the History of Cartography
that takes place in Russia for the first time. You’ll see the
masterpieces of cartographic art from the collections of the
Historical Museum. The maps are represented not as sources of
information but as objects of decorative art such as they once were
perceived. You’ll see a change of styles of map design over
five centuries (from the mid-16th century to the mid-20th century),
besides you’ll see maps executed not only on paper but on
silver, porcelain and metal surfaces.
December 6, 2010 – summer 2011 - Hastings-on-Hudson, New
York
The Hastings Historical Society has formally unveiled its
newest exhibit, A Story of a Village: Hastings in Maps from 1600
to the Present; a display of 27
maps from its collection. A hand-out is available for
self-guided tours. In its introduction, it reads: "Hastings
residents have a different way of looking at maps. Whereas some might
search for the compass rose, a Hastings dweller orients by locating
the river. The Hudson is the defining presence in our village. From
north to south, its shoreline acted as a magnet for industry and
growth for our community; to the west, it offered views of the
majestic Palisades." Beginning in the rotunda room,
visitors—with the help of descriptive passages alongside the
various maps—can trace the history of the village from the days
of Henry Hudson's historic voyage, when Native Americans inhabited
the land, through the colonial and American Revolution periods, and
into the 19th century, when industry and commerce transformed the
area's landscape. Open Mondays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.,
and other times by appointment by calling 914/478-2249. The
Hastings-On-Hudson Historical Society Museum is located on the
grounds of the John W. Draper Observatory at 407 Broadway.
June 11, 2011 - September 10, 2011 - Lancaster, England
Delve
into the incredible art and science of the map-maker in a new
exhibition of historic maps and sea charts, All Points North,
opening at Lancaster Maritime Museum, Custom House, St George's Quay.
Drawing on the historic map collections of Lancaster City Council,
the exhibition includes the earliest county maps of Lancashire,
dating from 1577, early road maps, town plans of Lancaster, early
Ordnance Survey maps and sea charts of Morecambe Bay. A number of
maps have been restored by Lancashire County Council's Conservation
Studios in Preston to make them suitable for display and protect them
from disintegration for future generations. The impressive skills of
the map maker are displayed here for all to see.
June 13, 2011 - September 16, 2011 – Milwaukee
As
part of the 2011 city-wide celebration of Chinese culture, the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, 2311 East Hartford
Avenue, is presenting an exhibition highlighting their collections of
Chinese-related materials. China Revealed: Maps and Photographs
from the American Geographical Society Library is located on the
3rd Floor, East Wing of the Golda Meir Library building. This exhibit
features maps, atlases, photographs, and rare geographical
publications from the AGS Library. The exhibition is open from 8 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. For more information, call 414-229-4345
or 414-229-6282.
May 15, 2011 – September 18, 2011 –
Königswinter-Heisterbacherrot
A
special exhibition honoring the 450th anniversary of the Map
of Silesia by Martin Helwig (1516-1574) can be seen at Haus
Schlesien, Dollendorfer Str. 412.
April 22, 2011 - September 24, 2011 – Miami
For
more than a century, tourists have visited attractions and admired
sub-tropical landscapes. Some travelers returned home with a souvenir
plate—a fun and portable keepsake. Souvenir plates feature a
picturesque scene, often surrounded by a decorative border. While
some have become highly collectable antiques, others are simply fun
kitsch—mementos of a vacation in the sun. Tourists also
acquired pictorial maps as souvenirs of their vacations. Colorful
pictorial maps—decorated with tiny and often whimsical drawings
of people, animals and landmarks—were especially popular during
the mid-twentieth century. They have also become “collectibles.”
Some of the most charming souvenir plates and pictorial maps in the
HistoryMiami Museum’s collections will be shown in the Souvenir
Maps and Plates exhibition—most for the first time. The
exhibition, at 101 West Flagler Street, is sure to appeal to the
collector in all of us.
August 6, 2011 - September 24, 2011 - Chisholm,
Minnesota
Minnesota
on the Map can be seen at Minnesota Discovery Center, 1005
Discovery Drive. This exhibit draws on maps of Minnesota from the
late 1600s to the early 2000s, and was created by the Minnesota
History Center in St. Paul, with research assistance from David A.
Lanegran, Carol L. Urness, and the Minnesota Alliance for Geographic
Education.
April 13, 2011 - September 30, 2011 – Vilnius
The
New Arsenal - National Museum, which is situated on Arsenalo Street
1, near the base of the hill with the Tower of Gediminas on top of
it, presents its new exhibition of Ancient Maps of the Lithuanian
Grand Duchy and old Lithuanian Books from the collection of
famous abstract-style painter Kazys Varnelis. Those maps and books,
which look like masterpieces of art, were never on show before. Some
of them are so unique that no Lithuanian library has copies of them.
Varnelis, who indeed was a passionate collector of Lithuanian
history-related items, died on Oct. 29, 2010. The collection will be
on show till Sept. 30. The part of Varnelis’ collection on show
in the New Arsenal presents not only the maps of the huge territory
of the state of Lithuania in the 16th-18th centuries, but also a map
of its capital, Vilnius, in 1576, a map of Klaipeda from the 18th
century, and more than 100 other maps, including maps of battles.
May 25, 2011 - September 30, 2011 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Maps
offer guideposts to orient us in physical space, but they also employ
a repertoire of graphic tools to convey overt and covert messages
that channel our geographical perceptions. The ornamental features
that may now seem little more than decorative embellishments once
acted as richly nuanced symbols, analogies, and coded commentaries.
Going for Baroque: The Iconography of the Ornamental Map
explores how decorative cartographic devices - cartouches, vignettes,
figural borders, title pages, and frontispieces—could provide
narrative underpinnings for the geospatial content of maps. To those
accustomed to their visual vocabulary, these ornamental elements
(whether emblems, insignia, heraldic shields, mythological figures,
or allegories) could make an eloquent case for the authority and
vision of the mapmaker. Exhibit is in Map Gallery Hall, Pusey
Library, Harvard University. For details contact Joseph Garver at
617-496-8717.
September 25, 2011 - October 13, 2011 - Washington Crossing,
Pennsylvania
The David Library of the American Revolution,
1201 River Road, a non-profit archive dedicated to the study of
American History during the Revolutionary period of 1750-1800, will
be hosting an exhibit of historic maps entitled Early Maps of
America: 16th to 18th Century. The exhibit, which will feature
maps ranging from a sixteenth century Ptolemaic map to a 1777 map of
Philadelphia by Scull and Heaps, will preview on Sunday, September 25
from 1 pm to 3 pm, prior to a lecture by Prof. Akhil Reed Amar of
Yale Law School. The Opening Reception will be on Tuesday, September
27 at 6 pm, followed at 7:30 by a lecture on the exhibit by Dr.
Daniel Trachtenberg, a map expert and collector. The exhibit will be
open for public viewing on Saturday, October 1 from 1 pm to 5 pm,
Thursday, October 13 from 6PM to 7:30 prior to the lecture by Prof.
David G. Post of Temple University Law School, and by appointment.
Appointments to see the exhibit at times other than those listed
above can be made by calling (215) 493-2233 ext. 100.
September 23, 2011 – October 15, 2011 – Vottoriosa,
Malta
An exhibition of
German Malta Maps
can
be seen at the Malta Maritime Museum. Open 9.00-16.30, phone 2180
5287.
July 29, 2011 – October 16, 2011 – Weimer
Die
Welt aus Weimer: zur Geschichte des Geographischen Instituts [The
World seen from Weimer: History of the Geographical Institute]
is
on display at the Weimer City Museum, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 5-9.
February 26, 2011 - October 30, 2011 - Flagstaff, Arizona
There
is an indigenous mapping movement growing around the world
reinforcing indigenous knowledge of ancestral lands and describing
the world as a cultural landscape. The Museum of Northern Arizona,
3101 N. Ft. Valley Rd, exhibit A:shiwi A:wan Ulohnanne - The Zuni
World, highlights the Zuni peoples’ unique approach to
mapping with art. Thirty new Zuni map art paintings and accompanying
videography and acoustic productions are part of the exhibit,
produced in partnership with the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage
Center (AAMHC) in Zuni, New Mexico. The Zunis have always had maps,
in songs and prayers, painted on ceramics, and etched in stone. These
maps refer to the place of their origin and places they visited. But
over the past 500 years, Zuni names of places and their meanings have
been all but eliminated from mainstream use. In their place are a new
set of maps, with a new set of names that reflect other values and
ways of seeing the world that has been the Zunis’ home for
generations.
May 1, 2011 - October 30, 2011 - Burnley, England
An
exhibition has been launched to celebrate the 150th anniversary of
Burnley becoming a borough. Burnley Historical Society has put
together the exhibition which celebrates the significant year in the
area’s history. The exhibition features information on what
Burnley was like in 1861, including old photographs, a copy of the
Royal Charter and old maps. Other areas look at other historical
events that happened in the same year, such as the start of the
American Civil War. The historical society’s exhibition runs
from 2pm to 4pm from Saturday to Tuesday at the Weavers Triangle
Visitor Centre.
July 1, 2011 - October 31, 2011 - San Francisco
Mapping
The Pacific Coast, at the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 900
Beach Street, showcases rare, historic maps, books and illustrations
of Pacific Coast exploration, dated 1544 through 1802. These historic
stories are told through original maps of the time and illustrations
– the earliest being woodcuts and the majority being
copperplate engravings, many in original hand color. Mapping the
Pacific Coast was originally shown at the Sonoma County museum in
2004, and has been on tour around the country ever since. Other
venues have included the Mystic Seaport Museum, in Mystic, CT. and
the Maritime Museum of San Diego. Following its exhibition in San
Francisco, the exhibit will move to its permanent home in Oregon, at
the Columbia River Maritime Museum.
May 16, 2011 - Fall 2011 - Muleshoe, Texas
The
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge has a new exhibit about the history
of the refuge and southern Bailey County. The Mapping the South
Plains exhibit, created by four area women, showcases panoramic
photographs of Paul's Lake and White Lake, historic photographs and
maps and antique surveyor tools and draftsman equipment. The visitor
center is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and
is located about 20 miles south of Muleshoe on Texas 214. For more
information, contact the refuge at (806) 946-3341.
October 1, 2010 – November 6, 2011 – Littleton,
Colorado
Pivotal
Points: The Exploration and Mapping of the Trans-Mississippi West
can
be seen at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup Street. What are the
Pivotal Points in the exploration and mapping of the West that helped
to illustrate the continent? Through maps and reports primarily drawn
from the Littleton Museum collection, this exhibition depicts some of
those Pivotal Points, placing them within the context of contemporary
thought and identifying them on the timeline of American history.
September 2, 2011 – November 6, 2011 - Sint-Niklaas,
Belgium
A double
exhibition: The land of Waas, as seen in maps, and Belgium
in maps – the evolution of the landscape in three centuries of
cartography can be seen at the
Mercator Museum, Zamanstraat 49.
September 20, 2011 – November 6, 2011 –
Neukirchen-Vluyn
Karten
aus der Region Neukirchen-Vluyn [Maps from the region Moers] is a
special exhibit of numerous examples from the map collection of the
Museum Neukirchen-Vluyn, Von-der-Leyen-Platz 1. It presents
historical maps from the Lower Rhine, regional and municipal maps of
Neukirchen and Vluyn, supplemented by topographical maps and
development plans.
September 19, 2011 - November 11, 2011 –
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Places on Paper: Selections From
the Eli P. Zebooker Collection can be see at the Philadelphia
Athenaeum, 219 S. 6th Street. This is an exhibition of more than 50
pieces from the recent gift of Dr. Eli P. Zebooker, an Athenaeum
shareholder since 1976. Featured are maps, prints and books that
document the growing Colonial, Federal and Victorian City. Some of
Philadelphia’s rarest 18th and 19th century cartographic,
iconographic, and bibliographic treasures will be on view, including
William Scull’s 1770 Map of Pennsylvania, Carrington Bowles’s
1778 East Perspective View of the City of Philadelphia, and Julio
Rae’s 1851 Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser of
Chestnut Street from Second to Tenth Streets.
November 8-26, 2011 – Milan
In honor of the
opening of the new Holy Land Library of Milan (Libreria Terra Santa,
Via G. Gherardini, 2), Francesco Pettinaroli, owner of the shop in
the historic Piazza San Fedele, curated a small exhibition of ancient
maps of the Holy Land entitled: The Land of the Word. Maps of the
Holy Land from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The
exhibition highlights the privileged and ancient relationship that
has always existed between the cartographers and the Holy Land. Maps
displayed include one from Martin Waldseemüller's edition of the
famous Geography of Ptolemy (Strasbourg, 1513), one coming from the
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Ortelius (Antwerp 1601), and the beautiful
plan of Jerusalem published by Matthäus Seutter. There is a
catalog of the exhibit edited by Francesco Pettinaroli.
February 19, 2011 - November 28, 2011 – Bath
The
Building of Bath Collection’s major exhibition for 2011,
Putting Bath on the Map, will unveil a private collection of
maps of Bath, dating from c. 1600 to the present day. Collectively
these maps tell the story of the city’s evolution from the
medieval city to the Georgian spa and beyond. The maps also reveal
the development of map making as both an art and a science. Until the
rapid transformation of the Georgian period, Bath remained a city
largely contained within its medieval walls. The majority of the maps
have been loaned from a private collection and this will be the first
time they have been publicly exhibited together. The exhibition is at
the Building of Bath Collection at the Countess of Huntingdon’s
Chapel on The Paragon. Opening times are Saturday, Sunday, Monday
10.30am to 5pm.
July 1, 2011 - November 30, 2011 - Newport, Rhode Island
The
Naval War College has opened a new exhibition, Envisioning the
World: The First Printed Maps, 1472-1700. The exhibition features
thirty maps of the world including the first known world map ever
printed. The exhibit includes a 1504 map of the world referencing the
discoveries of Christopher Columbus, a map from the first modern
atlas printed in 1570, and two maps from the Naval War College
Library. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Mondays through
Fridays, and noon to 4:30 p.m. on weekends during June through
September. Public access to the Museum with a personal vehicle is
through Gate 1 of the U.S. Naval Station, Newport. For reservations
please call (401) 841-4052 at least one working day in advance.
Reservations and photo identification are necessary for entry onto
the Naval Station.
September 6, 2011 – December 10, 2011 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
The
Harvard Art Museums present Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in
Early Modern Europe an exhibition that examines how celebrated
Northern Renaissance artists contributed to the scientific
discoveries of the 16th century. This exhibition and the accompanying
catalogue offer a new perspective on the collaboration between
artists and scientists: the project challenges the perception of
artists as illustrators in the service of scientists, and examines
how their printmaking skills were useful to scientists in their
investigations. Artists’ early printed images served as
effective research tools, not only functioning as descriptive
illustrations, but also operating as active agents in the creation
and dissemination of knowledge. Taking into consideration prints,
books, maps, and such scientific instruments as sundials, globes,
astrolabes, and armillary spheres, this project looks at
relationships between their producers and their production, as well
as between the objects themselves. Prints and the Pursuit of
Knowledge in Early Modern Europe will be on display at the
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 32 Quincy Street. The
exhibit travels to the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (at
Northwestern University), where it will be on view from January 17 to
April 8, 2012.
September 16, 2011 - December 16, 2011 - Fond du Lac,
Wisconsin
Fond du Lac Arts Council and Marian University
History Program collaborated to compile L'America 1564-1860: Three
Hundred Years of Discovery; a display of 16th century maps,
drawings and artifacts, which are on loan from Herman Bender's
collection. The exhibit is on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday at Windhover Center for the Arts, 51 Sheboygan St.
Free admission.
September 1, 2011 - December 22, 2011 – London
In
the midst of the devastation caused by the Blitz, the London County
Council created a series of maps to record where rockets fell and
which buildings were damaged during the bombing raids. The maps
graphically illustrate the destruction of many streets, houses,
factories and shops and provide an essential record for understanding
the chaos and turmoil faced by Londoners just seventy years ago.
Taking the damage recorded on the maps as a starting point, Mapping
the London Blitz will present a number of other sources from the
London Metropolitan Archives to reveal the experience of life in
London during the Blitz. Exhibit can be seen at London Metropolitan
Archives, 40 Northampton Road, Clerkenwell. London Metropolitan
Archives will be closed to the public from 4.45pm on Friday 28
October and will re-open at 9.30am on Monday 14 November 2011.
September 30, 2011 – December 23, 2011 –
Oxford
Treasures
of the Bodleian, in the
Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library, brings together some of the
rarest, most important and most evocative objects in the world. It
also asks the question, 'what is a treasure in the twenty-first
century?' On display will be some of the Bodleian's rarest, most
important and most evocative items, from ancient papyri through
medieval oriental manuscripts to twentieth-century printed books and
ephemera. They will include an Islamic world map, the Selden Map of
China, the Laxton Map, Magna Carta, Bakshali manuscript (first
evidence of the concept of zero), Handel’s conducting copy of
Messiah, Shakespeare’s First Folio, one of the earliest
medieval illustrated manuscripts of Dante's The Divine Comedy,
hand-written drafts of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , Kafka's The
Metamorphosis, and Robert Hooke's Micrographia, The Book of
Curiosities, an illustrated medieval Arabic manuscript, among others.
March 7, 2011 - December 29, 2011 - Newport, Rhode Island
A
Sense of Place: Exploring Newport and Narragansett Bay Through
Historic Maps, with guest curator Christina Connett, is a
selection of important maps of Newport and Narragansett Bay which
reflect the perceptions and uses of these spaces over time. Exhibit
can be seen at Van Alen Gallery and Rovensky Room Display Cases,
Redwood Library & Athenaeum, 50 Bellevue Avenue.
February 1, 2010 - December 31, 2011 - Rochefort, France
The
arsenal built in Rochefort for Louis XIV produced the finest warships
of the Marine Royale. One of its longest buildings, la Corderie
Royale, BP 50108, has been renovated and now hosts a variety of
historical exhibitions. La mer à l’encre, trois
siècles de cartes marines, XVIe – XVIIIe siècles
[The Sea in Ink. Three centuries of sea charts, 16-18c.] focuses
on marine charts and is complemented by a display of ancient
navigation instruments. Among the exhibits are 16th century
cartographic productions of Norman ports (Dieppe, Honfleur, Rouen),
and the 17th century cartographical masterpiece "le Neptune
François"
(1693) resulting from the remarkable state undertaking initiated by
Colbert.
May 12, 2011 - December 31, 2011 – Boston
The
American Civil War is one of the defining events in American history.
To commemorate its 150th anniversary, the Norman B. Leventhal Map
Center at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St, will present
the exhibition, Torn in Two: the 150th Anniversary of the Civil
War. This multimedia display takes a geographic and cartographic
approach to exploring and illuminating the causes of the conflict,
the conduct of the war and how the war was remembered in later years.
It will showcase 50 historic maps interwoven with 40 photographs,
paintings, prints, diaries, political cartoons, music and press of
the period, all from the Boston Public Library's special
collections. A fully illustrated, 152-page exhibition catalog
is available for US $35.00; for information about purchasing a copy,
send inquiries to maps@bpl.org. The exhibit will move to the Grolier
Club, New York, February 22-April 28, 2012; and the Osher Map
Library, Portland, Maine, April 1-August 30, 2013.
May 13, 2011 - December 31, 2011 - Staunton, Virginia
The
Jed Hotchkiss, Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker traveling exhibit,
designed by the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in the fall of 2008,
can be seen at the R.R. Smith Center for History & Art’s
History Gallery, 20 S. New St. The Augusta County Historical Society
sponsored exhibit features Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828-1899), one of
America’s finest and perhaps most famous mapmakers. As a
topographical engineer in the Second Corps of the Army of Northern
Virginia, he drew maps and made sketches in the field. His finished
maps served the Confederate officers in planning military strategy
and today they provide a vivid record of the Shenandoah Valley during
the Civil War. History remembers him simply as Confederate General
Stonewall Jackson’s mapmaker after being charged by Stonewall
to “Make me a map of the Valley,” in anticipation of
military action here. This exhibition focuses on maps created by
Hotchkiss but includes much of his personal and biographical material
as well. Reproductions of his maps from the Hotchkiss Map Collection
in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress will be
on display. As a young man, Hotchkiss traveled from his native New
York and settled down to life as a schoolteacher in Augusta County.
He left that career for the military life when the war broke out in
1861. After the war he moved to Staunton and devoted the rest of his
life to championing the economic revival of the South. The History
Gallery, located in the Smith Center, is open Monday-Friday, 10
a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday 1-4 p.m.