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March 26, 2011 – January 1, 2013 –
Williamsburg
More than Meets the Eye: Maps and Prints of
Early America is at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum,
326 West Francis Street. The exhibition features 35 maps, portraits,
and other graphic images that invite the viewer to look more deeply
into the subtle messages delivered by artisans depicting America. In
addition to objects from the Colonial Williamsburg collections, the
exhibition includes an outstanding documentary source for the 1920s
restoration of the historic town—the “Frenchman’s”
map, loaned by the College of William and Mary. The Connecticut
Historical Society has also kindly agreed to loan their copy of Abel
Buell’s "A New and correct Map of the United States of
America,” the first map of the thirteen states to be published
after the Congress of the Confederation ratified the treaty on
January 14, 1784. Two programs in conjunction with the exhibit "Focus
on Maps" and "Maps and Migration" will offer a closer
look at specific types of maps. "Focus on Maps" will
feature rare and important 17th and 18th century American maps. That
program will be offered at 2:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Mondays from
April 4-June 6. "Maps and Migration" will show
transatlantic migration routes in British North America during a
guided tour of the 17th and 18th century maps. That tour will be held
at 4 p.m. on Thursdays May 5-June 9.
October 29, 2012 - January 1, 2013 - Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Cartographic
Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary uses maps to
show old and new drawing techniques. Sections of an old map of
Switzerland employs hachures - short lines used to depict an
incline’s degree of slope. The show, on view at Gund Hall,
Harvard Graduate School of Design , 48 Quincy, is also meant to give
students a sense of the aesthetics that have been vividly present in
cartography for centuries, but that may be muted in an age of 3-D
representations of space. Curator Jill Desimini stood between a
13th-century map of the British Isles, on which settlements were
marked with castles, and a flickering video made last month that
stacked layers of geographic data. In defense of the modern age, she
said, “It’s much more challenging to make something that
has to work at so many different scales.” For those who are not
students, Cartographic Grounds still has immense appeal,
beginning with those aesthetics. “You can be immersed in a lot
of beautiful maps and a lot of beautiful drawings,” said
Desimini. Viewers can simply marvel at the rich lexicon of the ways
that maps are organized and drawn. Within the idea of subsurface
inventions, for instance, is the familiar stratigraphic column
depicting layers of rock. This was a revolutionary idea in 1815, when
William Smith published the first nation-scale geological map,
depicting the fossil-rich subsurface layers that created Britain’s
contours. Add to that the cross section, a mapping convention so
familiar that it is now all but invisible. The exhibit includes a
whimsical view of a South American mountain, with a verdant outer
layer on one side and a mountain of words on the other. This is an
1802 botanical map by Alexander von Humboldt, meant to show how plant
distribution was affected by elevation. The rest of the show offers
lavishly illustrated lessons. There are the line symbols and
conventional signs of temporal cartography, where precision
overwhelms the need to show how a place looks from the air. A Federal
Aviation Administration map of Los Angeles, for instance, replaces
the look of a place to reflect the first imperative of air travel:
Know where the ground is. In maps of the aqueous world, there are
soundings and isobaths and spot elevations, including a water-depth
map of a Dutch river in the 1730s. Then there are the hachures,
shaded relief, and other conventions used to depict the terrestrial
landscape. Quite logically, this is the biggest part of the exhibit,
because ground maps have dominated cartography from the beginning.
This is also the area of cartography where the past most strikingly
meets the future. There are maps painstakingly mapped on foot by a
surveyor. And there are maps derived from satellite technology,
including a video display that allows the viewer to “fly”
across the world at a bird’s-eye level.
November 30, 2012 – January 6, 2013 - Valletta, Malta
In
the beginning of the 19th century Baron Charles Frederick Von
Brocktorff (1775-1850) moved to Malta from Schleswig Holstein in
Germany. He lived in Valletta and he and his wife had 12 children. He
opened a gallery selling paintings and maps made by him and four of
his sons. His business was very successful. The Malta Map Society, in
collaboration with Heritage Malta, will sponsor an exhibition The
Brocktorff Mapmakers. The exhibition will be held at the Museum
of Fine Arts, South Street, and a catalog will be issued. Additional
information from Rod Lyon.
October 20, 2012 - January 13, 2013 - Loveland, Colorado
Civil
War: Maps, Money and Memories can be seen in the Loveland
Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave. Exhibit shows Civil War
fractional currency and maps Dave Cole has collected.
November 11, 2012 – January 13, 2013 - Göttingen,
Germany
The year 2012 marks 250 years since the death of
Tobias Mayer. Mr. Mayer became a highly regarded mathematician,
cartographer, and astronomer in the mid-1700s. He worked for the
Homann family for several years. An exhibition illustrating aspects
of his works, including maps made by him while working for the
Homanns, can bee seen at Niedersächsische Staats- und
Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Platz der Göttinger
Sieben 1.
November 27, 2012 – January 20, 2013 - Galloway, New
Jersey
The Richard E.
Bjork Library at Richard Stockton College, 101 Vera King Farris
Drive, is hosting Surveying South Jersey, an exhibit of maps
and artifacts representing the region in the mid-19th century. The
display’s centerpiece is a beautifully restored Smith &
Wistar map of Salem and Gloucester counties. The map measures 4.8
feet in width and 3.4 feet in depth and is water colored by hand. It
is near the library’s reference desk. An accompanying
exhibition, by two recent Stockton graduates, Nick Leonetti and James
Pomar, describes New Jersey map-making at mid-nineteenth century, and
gives a brief background on the two counties. The collection also
includes a group of large Atlases containing maps of the Southern New
Jersey coast, Philadelphia and what is now Camden County and Monmouth
County, among other areas.
September 13, 2012 - January 21, 2013 - New York
Through
maps, photographs, newspapers, government documents, and original
artifacts, visitors will encounter Staten Island’s historical
transformation and its changing roles as a farming center, as a rural
retreat, as the site of rapidly residential communities, as a center
for industry, and as an increasingly dense urban environment. From
Farm to City: Staten Island 1661-2012 will also enable visitors
to explore current debates about land preservation, environmental
sustainability, and redevelopment on the island, including through a
special case study of the Fresh Kills landfill redevelopment. The
exhibition can be seen at Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth
Avenue.
October 4, 2012 - January 27, 2013 - Victoria, British
Columbia
Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps,
1472-1700, can be seen at Royal BC Museum, 675 Belleville Street.
This collection of the earliest printed maps of the world reveals the
rapidly unfolding understanding of geography and our place in the
universe from the early Renaissance through the scientific Age of
Enlightenment. The 30 rare and stunning maps, drawn from the
extensive Wendt collection, also portray the first attempts to come
to grips with the shape, size, and nature of the Earth and our solar
system. One map from the Royal BC Museum’s historic map
collection in the BC Archives will be on exhibit. Dated from 1696,
the illuminated double-hemisphere view of the world is adapted and
redrawn from the original work of the important French cartographer
Nicholas Sanson (1600-1667). It provides a fascinating look at how
European mapmakers of the time viewed the North Pacific with mythical
wonder and scanty facts. The exhibition is accompanied by a beautiful
104-page catalogue available for purchase from the Royal Museum Shop.
October 23, 2012 – January 27, 2013 – Paris
An
exhibition on Portolan charts from the thirteenth to the eighteenth
century will be at the Bibliothèque nationale de France,
François-Mitterrand site, Grand Galerie. For additional
information contact cartes.plans@bnf.fr.
October 1, 2012 – February 9, 2013 - Arlington, Texas
An
exhibit at University of Texas Arlington Library’s Special
Collections, 702 Planetarium Place, titled Pearls of the Antilles:
Printed Maps of Caribbean Islands, features over seventy maps and
prints, drawn solely from the collections at UT Arlington.
August 24, 2012 - February 10, 2013 – Princeton
First
X, Then Y, Now Z: Landmark Thematic Maps is the title of an
exhibition in Main Gallery, Firestone Library. This exhibition
introduces viewers to the early history of thematic mapping—the
topical layering (Z) of geographic space (X-Y)—through both
quantitative and qualitative examples. On display will be early, if
not the earliest, thematic maps in various disciplines, such as
meteorology, geology, hydrography, natural history, medicine, and
sociology/economics. In some cases the maps literally changed the
world in the sense that new scientific avenues of investigation
resulted. Also, a selection of more fanciful, “theme”
maps, on literary subjects, love/marriage, and utopia, will be shown.
These exhibitions and their related events are free and open to the
public thanks to the generous support of the Friends of the Princeton
University Library.
January 23, 2013 – February 14, 2013 - West Windsor, New
Jersey
Mercer County
will officially kick off a yearlong celebration of its 175th
Anniversary year with Mapping Mercer, an exhibition of
historic and contemporary maps that trace some of the history of this
region. The exhibit will be on display at The Gallery at Mercer
County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road. On display for the
first time since the early 1930s will be two of the county’s
Master Plan maps. Other featured maps include Victorian bird’s-eye
view maps of Hightstown, Hopewell Borough and Trenton, a 1719 map of
“Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the Three Delaware
Counties,” and the last official map of New Jersey (1833)
before Mercer became a county in 1838.
June 15, 2012 - February 23, 2013 - Harbor Springs, Michigan
A
Delightful Destination: Little Traverse Bay at the Turn of the
Century is the featured temporary exhibit at the Harbor Springs
History Museum, 349 E. Main Street. In 1900 tourists and season
residents flocked to waterfront communities around Little Traverse
Bay including Petoskey and Harbor Springs. Luxury hotels opened
serving fresh oysters and lobsters. Railroad and steamship companies
created elaborate advertising campaigns that rival the current Pure
Michigan program and an economy and way of life still visible today
were created. Through vintage maps, photographs, books and postcards,
A Delightful Destination: Little Traverse Bay at the Turn of the
Century explores the region's transportation, cultural, and economic
growth during this colorful period between 1890 and 1920.
December 10, 2012 - February 24, 2013 – Washington
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 created 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. A reduced traveling
version of the exhibition can be seen at Ford’s Theater, Center
for Education and Leadership, 514 10th Street NW, where it will
showcase 40 historic maps and related graphics (including, manuscript
letters, political cartoons, music and press of the period). 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.
August 29, 2012 – February 28, 2013 –
Singapore
Raffles'
Letters, Intrigues behind the Founding of Singapore can
be seen at the National Library Gallery, Level 10, National Library
Building, 100 Victoria Street. The exhibition reveals important
insights into the founding of Singapore in 1819 through letters
written by Sir Stamford Raffles. Numerous maps of early Singapore and
the surrounding area are displayed. Another highlight is a replica of
what is believed to be the first landward map of Singapore. Dated
1820, the map contains details that are nor seen in subsequent maps
and shows the Singapore Town in its infancy.
September 11, 2012 – February 28, 2013 – Portland,
Maine
The exhibit, Iconic America: The United States Map as
a National Symbol, is at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center
for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. The exhibit
takes a broad look at the symbolic use of the mapped shape of the USA
– “ushapia” – in a variety of forms:
political campaigns; patriotic expressions; textiles and clothing;
culinary and household goods; book covers; and magazine and newspaper
graphics. John Fondersmith is guest curator for the exhibit, which
will showcase a number of items from his collection. Fondersmith has
been collecting various graphics and items that use the map shape of
the United States for over 30 years. About 1990 he coined the word
“ushapia” to describe a wide range of objects and
graphics that, while not technically maps, use the basic map shape of
the United States to symbolize the country. He hopes that the exhibit
will spur further interest, discussion, and research on the symbolic
use of the US map shape. Such logo maps are used daily in a range of
media, and in a variety of forms, to convey ideas about the identity
and nature of the USA. The “shape of the nation” is truly
an important part of the American experience.
December 15, 2012 - March 18, 2013 - Durham, North
Carolina
Instead of being just a navigational tool, maps may
also help people understand the social context of past societies.
Duke University students curated an exhibit devoted to analyzing maps
in innovative ways at Perkins Lobby Gallery, Duke University Library.
The exhibit, titled Mapping the City: A Stranger’s Guide,
was hosted by students working on an independent study with Philip
Stern, assistant professor of history and co-director at the
Borderworks Humanities Lab. When the students learned that Perkins
had reserved a space for a presentation of their choice, they
developed an exhibit that featured unseen works from the David M.
Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library collection and shed light
on the numerous ways in which maps can be read. The exhibit includes
rare works such as the Willem Blaeu Atlas and a sound map of
modern-day London. For students interested in the University’s
history, the exhibit features early 20th century photographs of East
Campus.
January 12, 2013 – March 30, 2013 –
Marseille
Mémoires
des rives : cartes et portulans de Méditerranée is
on display at Bibliothèque Alcazar BMVR, Place René
Sarvil - 58, cours Belsunce. This exhibition reveals
the treasures of various schools of portolan mapping, with a focus on
the Marseille School. From the second half of the 16th century to the
17th century, Marseille became the center of portolan mapping.
Several names illustrate the Marseille School of portolans: the
Graffignia the Roussin, the Ambrosin. Many French and foreign
institutions were approached for loans, to better illustrate the
characteristics of these charts.
August 3, 2012 - March 31, 2013 – Cleveland
When
residents of Cleveland meet for the first time at a party or event,
one of the first questions is often “So do you live on the east
side or west side?” People relocating to Cleveland and
searching for an apartment or home quickly find out that the decision
can have far ranging effects about their daily routines and even the
friends they will make. Where does this geographical division arise
and how long has it defined who we are as “Clevelanders?”
Of course the dividing line is the Cuyahoga River, but why the
Cuyahoga? When did it take on the power to define people and their
lives? Drawing on a rich collection of maps at Western Reserve
Historical Society, 10825 East Boulevard, East vs. West –
Mapping Cleveland, the Western Reserve & the Midwest follows
the history of how the area in which we live came to be mapped,
divided up, separated into political areas of settlement, and maybe
shed some light on how east versus west became so important in
Cleveland. Interactive maps showing the earliest settlement of the
area are superimposed with 2012 images of Google maps. Visitors can
look at the changing downtown area by placing images of buildings on
a large plat map, viewing mid-19th century through mid-20th century
Cleveland. Also included are early survey tools called “Gunters
Chains”, the use of maps in politics, and geographic changes
through developments in transportation.
March 1, 2013 - April 14, 2013 – Annapolis
An
exhibition titled Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps,
1472-1700 can be seen at Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St.
Johns College, 60 College Avenue, Mellon Hall. The exhibition will
feature approximately 30 rare world maps drawn from the collection of
Henry Wendt, and will explore the major trends in intellectual
history from the early Renaissance through the scientific era of the
Enlightenment. Through the language of cartography, the maps in the
exhibition illustrate the way in which scientists, mathematicians,
explorers and cartographers came to grips with the shape, size and
nature of the Earth as a whole and its place in the universe.
Highlighted in the exhibition are the important contributions to this
evolving cosmography of: Ptolemy (c. 90-168 ); Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473-1543); Galileo Galilei (1564-1642); Johannes Kepler
(1571-1630); and Edmond Halley (1656-1742). Works featured in the
exhibition include: the first printed map (1472), a schematic concept
of the continents in the form of a "T" encircled by an "O"
of ocean; the first printed road map (1598), showing the cursus
publicus, the postal system of the Roman Empire, in eight sections
totaling 14 linear feet; highly decorative exemplars from the golden
age of Dutch mapmaking (17th century); and elaborate hand-colored
celestial views (1700), representing the constellations with figures
from Greek mythology.
March 13, 2013 – April 17, 2013 – London
Inspired
by the pioneering work of medical detective John Snow, who traced the
source of a deadly cholera outbreak in 1850s London to a water pump
in Soho, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is
opening its doors to the public with an exhibition celebrating his
work and legacy. Historical items on display from the archives of the
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Wellcome
Library, Museum of London and the London Metropolitan Archives
include rare maps and printed ephemera relating to cholera outbreaks
at the time. Cartographies
of Life & Death – John Snow and Disease Mapping
can
be seen at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel
Street. Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Free entry.
November 16, 2012 – April 23, 2013 – Boston
What
did Boston look like in the early 19th century? Much different than
it does today. By the late 1840s, the tidal basin in the Back Bay had
become such a health menace city leaders had no choice but to act. In
1858 the most ambitious engineering project of its time was begun,
filling in the tidal basin in the Back Bay to solve the public health
issues and to provide more land to allow the city to grow. When the
Great Fire of 1872 consumed about 65 acres of Boston’s
downtown, the stage was set to rebuild the city with improved streets
and building codes and thus the Boston we recognize today emerged!
Using approximately 30 maps, photographs and prints, the Norman B.
Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St.,
exhibit Boston in the Gilded Age: Mapping Public Places
focuses on the evolving street patterns and emerging park system from
1870-1900.
January - April 2013 - Providence, Rhode Island
Spain’s
Florida was both larger and smaller than the present state. From New
Spain to Newfoundland, everything west of the Atlantic coast was once
known as “Terra Florida.” The Florida Story,
1513-1783: Reconnaissance and Rivalry on a Maritime Periphery uses
historical maps and documents to tell the story of the Spanish and
British rivalry for control of Florida. Exhibition can be seen in the
reading room of the John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street.
December 7, 2012 – May 7, 2013 – Edinburgh
The
Bartholomew Archive, at the National Library of Scotland, is the
remarkable record of the Edinburgh-based firm of map engravers,
printers and publishers, John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. It is one of
the most extensive cartographic archives available for research in a
public institution. Putting Scotland on the map, a major
exhibition of Bartholomew Archive material can be seen in the
National Library of Scotland's main George IV Bridge building. This
exhibit focuses on Bartholomew’s map production techniques, and
showcases the diverse and eclectic content of the archive.
May 1-11, 2013 – Tehran
A
collection of historical maps of the Persian Gulf is on display in an
exhibition at the the 26th Tehran International Book Fair. The
collection consists of 50 maps dating back to various historical
periods. The maps are in Latin, English, French, Arabic, Spanish,
Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and several other
languages. Included are maps drawn by Gerardus Mercator, Abraham
Ortelius, Jodocus Hondius, Ibrahim Muteferrika , John Thornton, John
William Norie, Guillaume Delisle, and Guillaume Nicolas Delahaye.
December 12, 2012 – May 14, 2013 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Ever
since the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, millions of people have
flocked to world’s fairs and their extravagant displays of
invention and artifice. With their eclectic juxtaposition of edifying
exhibits, exotic cultural tableaux, and sideshow attractions, these
celebrations of human ingenuity have had ramifications far beyond
their restricted time and space. They have influenced aesthetic
styles and promoted the adoption of new technologies. By reinforcing
or challenging popular stereotypes, they have also shaped perceptions
of gender, race, and ethnicity. A Fair to Remember: Mapping
International Expositions explores the cartographic depiction of
world’s fairs in London, Paris, Philadelphia, Antwerp, Chicago,
Buffalo, St. Louis, San Francisco, New York, and Osaka. The pictorial
maps, views, and plans on display are accompanied by related
artifacts such as trade cards, postcards, cane maps, photographs, and
booklets (including a guide to the contents of a time capsule).
Exhibit can be seen in the Map Gallery Hall, Pusey Library. For
further information, contact Joseph Garver at 617-496-3670.
April 24, 2013 – May 20, 2013 – Istanbul
Istanbul's
Topkapi Palace Museum is home to a new exhibition, featuring a
variety of maps and books on geography dating back to the Ottoman
period. Titled Piri
Reis'ten Once ve Sonra: Topkapi Sarayi'nda Haritalar (Before and
After Piri Reis: Maps in Topkapi Palace),
the exhibition is on at the museum's Has Ahirlar Exhibit Hall. The
show is a part of a series of cultural events organized for the Year
of Piri Reis, as declared by the UNESCO Turkish National Commission
on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the drawing of a world
map by Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The Topkapi Palace
Museum Directorate prepared the exhibition in collaboration with the
Bilkent Cultural Initiative (BKG). The show presents 63 pieces from
the museum's archive. Piri Reis's maps of 1513 and 1528 and his
“Kitab-i Bahriye” (Book of Navigation) are among the
highlights of the show. Other maps by historian-geographer Katip
Çelebi, admiral and cartographer Ali Macar Reis and
mathematician and cartographer Matrakçi Nasuh are also
featured. In addition, the exhibition is showcasing sketches of
towers the Ottomans used during the Siege of Szigetvar and Belgrade
and Ottoman books on geography.
April 4, 2013 - May 24. 2013 - DeKalb, Illinois
Maps
purport to objectively document systems or spaces, yet are often at
odds with our subjective responses to our surroundings. Mapping:
Measuring Across Place and Period; Information, Navigation and
Geography will explore this theme by presenting visual
representations of objective and subjective mapping systems. This
theme is open to broad interpretations, including, but not limited
to: macro/micro systems; real/imagined spaces; man-made
constructions; geographical formations; astronomical configurations;
anatomical structures, etc. Potential mapping schemes are included
but not limited to: traditional cartography; topographical
elevations; navigational directions; treasure maps; flow charts;
family trees; assembly instructions; search engine mapping systems;
smart phone applications, etc. This exhibition will be curated by
Northern Illinois University Museum Studies students enrolled in ART
656 and will be held in the South Gallery of the Northern Illinois
University Art Museum. The galleries are on the west end of the first
floor of Altgeld Hall.
March 2, 2013 - June 16, 2013 - Davenport, Iowa
Marking
Territory: Cartographic Treasures of the Mississippi River and the
World Beyond is a special exhibition organized by the Figge Art
Museum, 225 West Second Street. Featuring a selection of historic
maps that range from early representations of the world to more
detailed examinations of America’s vast interior west of the
Mississippi, the exhibition explores how maps communicate highly
complex ideas about identity, politics and culture.
April 19, 2013 – June 14, 2013 – Columbus,
Georgia
A leading
Columbus State University supporter, J. Kyle Spencer, has donated to
CSU Archives one of the most comprehensive collections of the early
maps of Georgia. Before becoming part of the CSU Archives on the top
floor of CSU’s Schwob Memorial Library on main campus, a
sampling of the maps will be on display as the J. Kyle Spencer Map
Exhibition at the W.C. Bradley Co. Museum, 1017 Front Avenue.
Admission to the W.C. Bradley Co. Museum is free to the public. The
gallery housing the map samples will be open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on
weekdays, until 8 p.m. on Friday, April 26, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on
Saturday, April 27 and from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday, April 28.
May 15, 2013 – June 22, 2013 – Washington
An
exhibit of all of Waldseemuller's maps brought together under one
roof for the first time in history can be seen at the Library of
Congress, Kislak Gallery, second floor, Jefferson Building.
Waldseemüller corpus includes the 1507 World Map, the mysterious
John Carter Brown-Stevens world map, the 1507 Globes Gores,
Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, and the
1516 Carta Marina.
June 6-29, 2013 - Boise, Idaho
In
the early 1860s, residents of the newly founded city of Boise
navigated by landmarks, the occasional hand-drawn map or even by the
sun and stars. Today's citizens are more inclined to turn to
smartphones and let their GPS decide their best routes. Celebrating
the city's 150th anniversary--its sesquicentennial--that gradual
shift is currently on display at Boise's Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St.,
in the Finding Your Way Home exhibition, a collection of
historical and artistic maps from the 1863 founding of Boise up to
the present day. Perhaps the exhibition's most significant piece is
the very first city plat, circa July 1863, on display in the
entrance. Studded with 19th century photos of Boise's original
buildings, the plat maps a mere four square blocks. On an opposite
wall, a hand-quilted map displays Boise's expansion over the years,
supplemented by an original 1890 lithograph showing an illustrated
aerial view of Boise at the time.
June 24, 2013 - July 18, 2013 – London
Historical
Images from the Cortazzi Collection commemorates the tenth
anniversary of the establishment of the Lady Sainsbury Library at the
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in
Norwich. Over a period of half a century, Sir Hugh and Lady Cortazzi
amassed a collection of over sixty historical surveys of Japan, both
European and Japanese. This exhibition displays a selection of images
from that collection including a Venetian image from the early
sixteenth century and also those made in Japan during the Edo (1603 ―
1868 CE) and Meiji (1868 ― 1912 CE) periods. Exhibition can be
seen at the Embassy of Japan, 101/104 Piccadilly, London W1J 7JT.
Open Monday - Friday, 09:30 - 17:30, admission free.
January 18, 2013 – July 20, 2013 – Washington
The
French artist and engineer Pierre L'Enfant (1754-1825) made vital
contributions to the early formation of the American nation
and American identity. As a foreign volunteer in the Continental Army
and, later, as a citizen of the new nation, L'Enfant created imagery
that helped define the new American republic. During the
Revolutionary War, L'Enfant's artistic talent caught the attention of
General Steuben, who commissioned him to draw the illustrations for
Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United
States, the first official manual of the Continental Army. The
Frenchman was appointed captain in the Continental Army Corps of
Engineers and participated in the southern campaign, where he was
wounded at the battle of Savannah and taken prisoner at Charleston.
At the close of the war, L'Enfant became an original member of the
Society of the Cincinnati and created three emblems of membership for
the organization that became artistic expressions of the achievement
of American independence. Remaining in America after the war,
L'Enfant designed monuments, buildings, parades, and other patriotic
events celebrating the new nation. His work culminated in the 1791
plan for Washington, D.C., a grand vision that would guide
development of the American capital for the next
century and beyond. Pierre L'Enfant's Vision for the
American Republic can
be seen at Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue,
NW.
May 7, 2013 - July 27, 2013 – London
Cholera,
Chloroform and Disease Maps is an exhibition to mark the
bicentenary of John Snow and can be seen in the library of The Royal
Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street. Maps on display include lesser
known ones e.g. of Oxford & New Orleans. Entrance to the
exhibition is free.
July 28, 2013 - August 12, 2013 - Lafayette, Louisiana
Mr
Walter Dobie was a geologist. He traveled worldwide and acquired an
extensive collection of old maps. His maps will be exhibited at the
Alexandre Mouton House, 1122 Lafayette Street.
June 13, 2013 - August 15, 2013 - Sydney, Nova Scotia
A
new exhibit at the Cape Breton University Art Gallery will give local
residents and visitors alike a glimpse into the lives of the first
settlers at Louisbourg. Titled The Most Suitable Place: The
Founding of Louisbourg and Île Royale in 1713, the exhibit
coincides with the 300th anniversary of the founding of Louisbourg, a
milestone which is being marked this year at the Fortress of
Louisbourg. Maps of the region from the Beaton Institute’s
collection line the walls of the gallery and date from 1565 to 1765.
The exhibit moves to l’Universite de Moncton from Oct. 29, 2013
to Feb. 2, 2014.
April 1, 2013 – August 30, 2013 – Portland,
Maine
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 created 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.
The exhibit can be seen at the Osher Map Library, 314 Forest Avenue.
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.
June 8, 2013 - August 31, 2013 - Marbletown, New York
Ulster
and the Hudson Valley in Maps: 1729-1957 is
a special exhibit at Bevier House Museum, 2682
Route 209. Philip Ryan shares his collection of maps of Ulster County
dating from 1729 to 1957. The maps, including hand-drawn examples,
were used for military purposes, property titles and global education
about the New World. Hours noon-5 p.m. Thurs.-Sun.
March 25, 2013 - August 2013 – Denver
It’s
1864, and amid the hubbub surrounding the opening of what will later
be known as the University of Denver, a trend in mapping has been
taking place. At face value, the maps of Denver are simply visual
cues for getting from point A to point B. But if you look closely,
the cartography is part of a larger, clever marketing campaign.
Climate maps show Denver’s dry winds are a godsend for anyone
suffering from lung ailments such as tuberculosis. A local booster
produces another map praising the Front Range as the most healthful
place to live. The resounding theme: “Go West.” “Every
map makes a case for something, even if it’s a map of weather
patterns,” says history Professor Susan Schulten, one of the
masterminds behind the Anderson Academic Commons’ opening
mapping exhibit, Maps: From the Local to the Global. The
Academic Commons is located in University of Denver, Penrose Library,
2150 East Evans Avenue. With maps that track a wide range of American
life - from disease and climate to slavery and the U.S. Census -
Schulten demonstrates that the very definition of a map began to
expand in the 19th century. Once limited primarily to describing
landscapes and aiding in way finding, maps began to be used for more
analytic and problem-solving purposes. In other cases, maps served
special interests. What J.H. Flett’s 1881 hand-drawn lithograph
of Denver lacks in exactitude it makes up for in beauty. In fact,
businesses of the day paid the lithographer to draw their buildings
in a favorable light for marketing purposes.
June 28, 2013 - August 2013 - Rutherford, New Jersey
What
if someone told you that a map could show why your basement floods
when it rains? The Meadowlands Museum, 91 Crane Avenue, is putting on
such a program this summer with its Finding Our Place in History,
a map exhibition project being showcased at the Yereance Berry House.
The map exhibit highlights the museum's Yereance Berry House's
location from the 1680s to the present. By locating the Meadowlands
Museum site throughout history- from primitive 1600s maps through the
early 1800s farmlands maps, the mid 1800s Boiling Springs Resort
maps, and later, the 19th Century suburban subdivision maps, right up
to the current time with the use of municipal land use maps and
technological Google maps- visitors will learn about the area's
development and even gain interesting facts about - residential
homes. For example, from these maps we discover that the Berry House
was a larger farmhouse on a main road surrounded by fields and that
Crane Avenue was actually a brook and a pond that flowed down to
Berry's Creek. The maps show where lakes and rivers are that are now
buried. The maps show the reason why neighbors of the museum may get
some water in their houses.
August 25, 2013 - September 1, 2013 - Bay City, Pasay,
Philippines
Putting the Philippines on the Map, an
exhibit organized by the Philippine Map Collectors Society to help
promote a sense of national pride, is on view at the Mall of Asia
main lobby. With texts in Filipino and English, the exhibit hopes to
make the appreciation and interpretation of maps accessible to a wide
audience.
September 4-6, 2013 – Brisbane
A
controversial map that casts doubt on when Europeans discovered
Australia will be displayed down under for the first time at an
exclusive exhibition of the nation’s earliest chartings. Novae
Guineae Forma and Situs – a 1593 map that depicts a giant,
unnamed land mass believed by some experts to be Australia –
pre-dates the earliest confirmed map of the continent by more than a
decade. It is part of a collection of similarly unique, priceless
maps – nearly all of which have never been displayed outside
Europe – that will be exhibited by the National Library of
Australia at the nation’s largest spatial event, Ozri 2013: A
Spatial Odyssey, in Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
October 16, 2011 - September 8, 2013 – Rotterdam
How
do you find your way on the open sea? You can forget about it if you
do not have a proper map of the world. However, making such a map is
a quite complex process. Try creating a good representation of a
spherical shape like the Earth on a flat world map. The solution
found by the 16th century cartographer Mercator became world-famous
because sailors were able to plot their courses on nautical charts
using a straight line for the first time. Discover everything about
navigation at sea – both with and without Mercator’s map
- at the family exhibition Steady as she goes - Sailing by
Mercator's map at the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, Leuvehaven 1.
Historical maps and shipmodels will help you, but you will also be
working with globes, binoculars, compasses, the stars and modern
navigation equipment such as satellites and GPS. The only remaining
copy of Mercator’s world map in atlas format and his recently
restored globe can also be admired at the exhibition.
November 16, 2012 - September 15, 2013 –
Lucerne
Following up
a long tradition of cartography, the Museum Gletschergarten Luzern,
Denkmalstrasse 4, wishes to devote the special exhibition Ueli's
Maps – A Fascinating Work of Cartography to the extensive
map-work of the Swiss engineer and cartographer Ueli Läuppi from
Kriens by Lucerne. In contrast to the historical maps and landscape
reliefs in the possession of the Gletschergarten [Glacier Garden]
depicting Central Switzerland and the Alpine region, Ueli Läuppi's
maps stretch a great bow over lands and panoramas around the entire
planet. After decades of research and meticulous handwork, the
much-travelled Läuppi has created an opus that registers a new
outlook towards topographical and thematic correlations. Stemming
from this initial vision, there has emerged a most original and
fascinating work of cartography of highest aesthetic content.
August 14, 2013 - September 20, 2013 – Tokyo
Maps
of Japanese cities that were devastated by Allied air raids during
World War II are currently on display at the National Archives of
Japan in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Covering 131 municipalities stretching
from northern Hokkaido to southern Kagoshima Prefecture, most of the
maps are being shown to the public for the first time. The maps were
completed in December 1945 to provide information to military
personnel, as well as civilian workers for the military, on their way
home from overseas battlefields. Records show the maps were displayed
in ships bringing back demobilized soldiers to Japan, according to
officials. “People must have stared at the maps to find any
clues about (damage to) their homes, places where their families
evacuated and other areas,” said Yukiko Nagae, an archivist at
the National Archives of Japan. “I would like visitors to
imagine how people at the time felt.” Titled, Record of air
raids: General maps of war damage in major cities in Japan, the
exhibition is being organized to give people an opportunity to think
about the destruction of wars.
April 30, 2013 - September 27, 2013 - Columbia, South
Carolina
Gettysburg:
History and Memory is a special exhibit at The University of
South Carolina in the Hollings Special Collections Library. It
includes a rare 1863 pamphlet of President Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address, military texts showing strategy and tactics used and
personal accounts written by the soldiers involved. It also includes
maps and newspaper reports of the conflict. The exhibit marks the
150th anniversary of the battle, which took place from July 1-3,
1863. The Library is open Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
September 7-28, 2013 - Rensselaer, Indiana
Maps
can be viewed, both as documents and as mirrors of their times; they
are explored in the Indiana Historical Society exhibition Indiana
Through the Mapmaker's Eye at the Jasper County Historical
Society Museum, 479 N. Van Rensselaer St. The exhibition, drawn from
over 1,500 maps and atlases of Indiana and the Midwest dating from
1577 to the present, shows four ways people use maps.
January 27, 2013 – September 29, 2013 - Hoboken, New
Jersey
The Hoboken
Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., in the main gallery, has an
exhibit, Mapping the Territory: Hudson County in Maps, 1840-2013.
The exhibit shows how the county developed from a group of small,
agricultural townships to one of the most densely populated counties
in the state. A map of Hoboken from 1860 shows boardwalks
crisscrossing the undeveloped “meadows” in the western
half of the city, where streets are still called by their traditional
names, Paterson Plank Road and Hackensack Plank Road. The maps show
how the region evolved, originally from marshes and granite cliffs to
farms settlements inhabited by the Dutch, British and independent
Americans; and ultimately to diverse urban communities of today.
May 23, 2013 - September 30, 2013 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Mapping
Imperial China: A Cultural Exchange is an exhibit in Map Gallery
Hall, located just outside the Map Collection in Pusey Library,
Harvard University. Conventional narratives of East-West interaction
in the cartographic sphere tend to portray the cultural exchange as a
lopsided, tutelary relationship in which the more “primitive”
society inevitably pays fealty to more scientifically sophisticated
and objective standards of mapmaking. The simplistic assumptions
embedded in this model often misrepresent the dynamic negotiation
that occurs in the definition of geographical space. This exhibit
examines the complex web of influences and cross-influences that
resulted in the frequent metamorphoses of “China” over
the centuries. With a focus on the last two dynastic periods-the Ming
(1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912)-the maps displayed here will
illustrate the genealogical associations of concepts, images, and
stories that have shaped our views of one another. For further
information, contact Joseph Garver at 617-496-3670.
July 3, 2013 – October 4, 2013 – Helsinki
The
map exhibition From
Observation to Map – the History of Cartography and Surveying
in Finland can
be seen at the National Archives, Rauhankatu 17. The exhibition is a
collection of historically significant maps and charts as well as
geodetic instruments. The oldest map is a chart of the Gulf of
Finland drawn by Kucas Waghenaer in the 16th
century.
Open Tuesday-Friday 11-16.
April 27, 2013 – October 6, 2013 - Barnard Castle, County
Durham
The Bowes Museum will
have a special exhibit honouring the 250th anniversary of the start
of the drawing of the Mason Dixon line in 1763: Jeremiah
Dixon Scientist,
Surveyor and Stargazer. Come and discover how a young man
from a pit village in County Durham travelled the world and became
one of the finest Scientists of the 18th century. Marvel at his
achievements in Astronomy. Be enchanted by his artistic talent.
Explore the Mason-Dixon Line.
August 27, 2013 – October 13, 2013 – Gotha
The
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha and the University of Erfurt organized a
exhibition of German cartography of Palestine in the 19th century
titled The Holy Land in Gotha. It can be seen in the Hall of
Mirrors, Schloss Friedenstein.
September 21, 2013 - October 26, 2013 - Eugene, Oregon
The
Lane County Historical Society, 740 W 13th Ave., has placed 20 old
archive maps on display in the Map Show, Archival Collection.
The old maps on display are a selection showing Eugene, Springfield,
Lane County and Florence. One of the oldest, if not the oldest map on
display is a May 1856 plat map of Eugene City, predating statehood by
3 years. An undated old Eugene map shows a separate district called
Fairmount and something else unusual. Basically it's a projected
railroad that goes nowhere. There’s also an old 1890
semi-aerial view of Eugene with a University of Oregon map in lower
right hand corner that incorrectly labels UO as Oregon State
University, and tuition free.
April 26, 2013 – October 27, 2013 – Helsinki
The
Emerging World - Map Treasures from the A. E. Nordenskiöld
Collection can be seen at the National Museum of Finland,
Mannerheimintie 34, in rooms 131-132 on the museum's 1st floor. The
exhibition covers the emerging view of the world, daring expeditions,
rivalries among colonial powers, and the expeditions' effects on the
accumulation of scientific knowledge. Nordenskiöld was born,
studied, and began his researcher career in Finland. The exhibition
also tells of his colourful life and accomplishments. Adolf Erik
Nordenskiöld (1832-1901) made 10 research expeditions to the
Arctic Ocean, and in 1878-1879 was the first explorer to sail through
the Northeast Passage on a continuous trip. After preparing for his
expeditions by studying old maps and travel accounts, Nordenskiöld
gradually became interested in the history of cartography and was
later a world famous pioneer in that field. The National Library of
Finland's A. E. Nordenskiöld collection is one of the world's
most significant collections of old maps. The collection includes
24,000 maps printed before the year 1800. There is an accompanying
publication: “The Emerging World - Map Treasures from the A. E.
Nordenskiöld Collection,” SKS, 2013.
September 20, 2013 - November 2, 2013 – London
After
lying hidden for more than half a century, an inspiring collection of
prints, posters and original artworks will be displayed in this major
retrospective of the graphic designer MacDonald ‘Max’
Gill at PM Gallery & House,Walpole Park, Mattock Lane. Working as
an illustrator, letterer, architect, mapmaker and mural painter,
MacDonald ‘Max’ Gill, younger brother of the sculptor and
typeface designer Eric Gill, produced a diverse body of work
throughout a career spanning over four decades. Although celebrated
during his lifetime his works have since faded from view, this
exhibition will rediscover his innovative works and explore their
influence on the field of graphic design in the early 20th century.
Gill is perhaps best known for his richly-coloured and intricate
pictorial maps, in particular the 1914 ‘Wonderground’ map
produced for London Underground which sold in its thousands and
inspired a resurgence of pictorial and decorative map-making
worldwide. Out of the Shadows: MacDonald Gill was presented
initially by the University of Brighton’s Faculty of Arts in
Summer 2011. The exhibition at PM Gallery & House includes new
exhibits and is shown with thanks to Andrew and Angela Johnston and
Caroline Walker.
May 1, 2013 – November 3, 2013 – Boston
Charting
an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune can
be seen at the Boston Public Central Library, Copley Square (Norman
B. Leventhal Map Center). The period following the French and Indian
War (1754-1763) was a time of change and discovery in Atlantic
Canada. In back-to-back exhibitions featuring charts, views, and
maritime objects, the Map Center will look at the decade following
the war, when Britain set out to accurately chart the coast and
survey the inland areas of their new resource-rich North American
Empire. The resulting charts were published collectively by Joseph
Frederick Wallet Des Barres (1722-1824) in The Atlantic Neptune, a
maritime atlas which set the standard for nautical charting for
nearly half a century. This two-part exhibition will examine the
importance of accurate charting of the new empire, define how Britain
put her mark on the land, and explore the complex processes of marine
surveying and nautical chart production.
Part I: Atlantic Canada
(May 1 to July 28, 2013)
Part II: Eastern Seaboard of the United
States (August 1 to November 3, 2013)
August 31, 2013 - November 8, 2013 - Odessa, Texas
The
Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 University Blvd, is trying to stretch the
boundaries of art with its Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas
Maps exhibit. “Back in the ’20s or even earlier, when
people were moving from the East to Texas, they would often leave in
a hurry, and to let their neighbors know where they went, they would
scrawl ‘GTT’ over their doorways — ‘Going to
Texas,’” said Doylene Land, curator of education. The
sixty four original maps range from the earliest sixteenth-century
maps of New Spain to early settlement, the republic and statehood,
and into the twenty-first century. Through observing the maps in the
exhibit, the viewer can chronologically trace the history and
development of the state of Texas through the evolution of boundaries
over time. The exhibit is designed to educate children on map reading
skills as well as the history of Texas. It includes hands-on
activities working with compasses, legends, scales and all things
navigation and exploration. This exhibition is from the Yana and
Marty Davis Map Collection of the Museum of the Big Bend, Sul Ross
State University, Alpine, Texas.
April 2, 2013 - November 9, 2013 – Madison, Wisconsin
We
all use maps to find our way. Yet maps can show much more than
destinations. They help define who we are and where we belong, and
can help us understand our world in new ways. See a variety of
striking, intriguing and revealing maps from the rich collection of
the Wisconsin Historical Society and explore the place we call
Wisconsin. You Are Here: Maps and Meanings features a wide
array of maps both current and historic. In addition to early maps of
the state, the exhibit includes propaganda maps, Native American
maps, maps showing ethnic diversity and racial identity, and even
maps of frac sands and Chronic Wasting Disease. The exhibit can
be seen 9 am–4 pm, Tuesday through Saturday, at
Wisconsin Historical Museum, Capitol Square, 30 N Carroll St.
November 15, 2013 - December 6, 2013 - Puducherry, India
They
are old maps, some nearly three centuries old, and they depict a lost
French town in India. A town that was systematically destroyed by the
British forces after the French lost the war. Now more than 270 years
since they were drawn the maps of Mahe will be put up for display.
Alliance Francaise de Pondichery in collaboration with the Institut
Francais de Pondichery and the department of art and culture,
Government of Puducherry are all set to put up an exhibition of old
maps and plans culled from the French archives and painstakingly
curated by resident historian Jean Deloche. Entitled Old Mahe
-1721-1817, the exhibition can be seen at Alliance Francaise's
Maison Colombani, 37, Dumas St, White Town.
October 1, 2013 - December 9, 2013 - Milledgeville,
Georgia
Thanks to a
pair of former Georgia College & State University professors, the
Milledgeville school has a fine collection of antique maps featuring
Georgia, and many of them are on public display, giving a glimpse of
politics and demographics long past. Thomas and Janice Armstrong
spent years collecting the maps, which range in scope from Georgia
alone to all of North America. They donated most of their collection
to Georgia College, where it will eventually be housed in the
library’s Special Collections section for use by researchers
and in occasional exhibits. But for now, 17 of the 40 maps have been
selected for the Mapping Georgia History: A Personal Journey
display at Georgia’s Old Capital Museum, on the ground
floor of the former statehouse, now part of the Georgia Military
College campus, 201 E. Greene St. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
November 28, 2013 – December 22, 2013 – Bath
The
American Museum in Britain, Claverton Manor, is presenting an
exhibition entitled New
World, Old Maps. The
display, celebrating the ancient map collection of museum co-founder
Dr Dallas Pratt, is to illustrate the changing cartography scene as
European explorers discovered the New World. The exhibit will be
displayed again March 22, 2014 to December 2, 2014.
January 17, 2013 - December 31, 2013 - Tallahassee, Florida
The
Florida Historic Capitol Museum, 400 South Monroe Street, is hosting
an exclusive new exhibition as part of the statewide “Viva
Florida 500” commemoration of Ponce de Leon's landing in
Florida and the following five hundred years of historical
transitions. Navigating New Worlds: Identity, Perception, and
Politics in Florida highlights rare and important maps and prints
from the Michael W. and Dr. Linda M. Fisher collection. Approximately
thirty maps and prints will be on view from the Fisher collection,
consisting of some of their most rare and historically important
pieces. Visitors will explore the ties between outsiders' perceptions
of Florida, the experiences of those actually living in the region,
and how these interactions shaped Florida's settlement. Through
historical interpretation based on scholarly research and document
translations, the maps on display will depict the influence of
Europeans on the future shape of Florida but also reflect the
continuity of various cultures and languages throughout the
transformation of Florida's political landscape into the Florida that
we know today.
November 27, 2013 – December 31, 2013 - Providence, Rhode
Island
Rhode Island College is home to an exhibit that traces
the fictions and realities manifested in the maps of North Africa.
The exhibit, titled Mapping North Africa: A Cartographic History,
16th-19th Centuries, will be displayed in the main lobby of the
Adams Library, 600 Mount Pleasant Avenue. It is composed of 17 maps
from the extensive map collection of Richard Lobban, RIC professor
emeritus of anthropology. Arranged chronologically, the 17 maps show
how the cartographic topography of North Africa transformed over the
centuries from fantastical depictions into accurate pieces.
June 28, 2013 - December 2013 - Oneida, New York
The
Oneida Community Mansion House, 170 Kenwood Ave., will display Local
History in Maps. The exhibit features about a dozen works
including several recent donations, showcasing the museum’s
little known map holdings. Most are on public display for the first
time. Ranging from the 1850s to the 1950s, these maps illustrate our
past in the form of building locations, roads and railroads; water
and trolley lines; a golf course and a cemetery. They show the world
in plan, from the air, in isometric projection, and even in imaginary
view. The display includes early wall maps of Madison and Oneida
Counties which show houses and identify their owners. There are maps
illustrating features of Oneida Community life documented nowhere
else. The majority reveal the look of Kenwood and Sherrill around
1900.
October 25, 2013 – December, 2013 – Istanbul
The
Naval Museum in Istanbul's Besiktaş district has a special
exhibition, marking the 500th anniversary of Ottoman admiral and
cartographer Piri Reis's famous world map. Instead of offering a mere
presentation of the historic map, Piri
Reis ve Haritaları [Piri Reis and His Maps] makes
possible a comparison between Piri Reis and his contemporary peers
and also offers a look at technological advancements of his era. Piri
Reis drew maps and charts describing around 2,000 ports and coastal
cities surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, which are collected in his
“Kitab-ı Bahriye” (Book of Navigation). Fifty of his
maps from “Kitab-ı Bahriye” are displayed side by
side with recent satellite images of the locations Piri Reis charted.
Visitors can also compare Piri Reis's achievements with his
contemporaries such as Christopher Columbus and Gerardus Mercator.