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April 20, 2013 - January 5, 2014 - Winterthur,
Delaware
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library is proud to
present Common Destinations: Maps in the American Experience.
This exhibition traces the American rise of the “material map”
as a popular object - from rare decorative item to industrial
consumer good - and illustrates how maps affected men, women, and
children. Winterthur is the premier museum of American decorative
arts, reflecting both early America and the du Pont family’s
life in Delaware. The 60-acre naturalistic garden, set amid the
1,000-acre estate, is among the country’s best. The outstanding
research library serves scholars from all corners of the world. We
invite you to visit and explore this fascinating exhibition in the
Winterthur Galleries. For further information, call 800.448.3883 or
go to web page.
October 4, 2013 - January 5, 2014 - New York
Measuring
and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity
can be seen at Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York
University, 15 East 84th Street. The exhibit will explore the ways in
which ancient Greek and Roman societies understood, perceived, and
visualized both the known and the unknown areas of their world. It
brings together more than forty objects, combining ancient artifacts
with Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and printed books that draw
upon ancient geographic treatises. Together, they provide a
fascinating overview of Greco-Roman theories of the shape and size of
the Earth, ancient methods of surveying and measuring land, and the
ways in which geography was used in Roman political propaganda. An
interactive multimedia gallery and website will showcase the use of
modern technologies in studying ancient geography.
October 17, 2013 - January 5, 2014 – Paris
An
exhibition under the theme Oman et la Mer [Oman and the Sea]
will be held in the National French Maritime Museum, 17 place du
Trocadéro. The exhibition will feature the works of Admiral
Francio Edmond Paris, the historic French naval expert and voyager,
who visited Oman in 1838, and drew plans and sketches of traditional
Omani boats. The exhibit will showcase a range of items from
scientific objects to beautiful models of boast, from antique and
historical artefacts to original maps and charts which have never
been shown in Paris. The exhibition is aimed at school children and
the general public having special interest in Oman and the Indian
Ocean. It will be accompanied by a series of lectures and there will
be an interactive area for children within the gallery. The
exhibition will have different sections including introduction, maps
and illustrations, first navigators, traditional construction, art of
navigation, ocean commerce, navigating into the future and discovery
area. The expo will be supported by a catalogue book, a documentary
on DVD and a special website.
October 29, 2013 - January 5, 2014 - St. Augustine,
Florida
Some things never change. The human race has always
enjoyed embellishment and fantasy, even in the 16th century. When
European explorers landed in the New World, they not only found
unspoiled lands with abundant resources, but they also encountered
people with a different culture and way of life. This information of
the new people made its way back to Europe in both the written word
and illustrations, but the news was not always accurate. The New
World in the Eyes of Explorers exhibition features how the New
World was originally portrayed to the Old World. The exhibition, on
loan from The Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach, Fla.,
includes 70 objects such as framed original watercolors, prints, maps
and engravings of various sizes as well as authentic conquistador
artifacts. Items can be seen from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily in the
St. Augustine Visitor Information Center, 10 W. Castillo Drive. Many
of the illustrations created during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries
included incredible creatures and wild people living on vast land
overflowing with unlimited riches. These illustrations, several
created by Jacques le Moyne and John White, satisfied the Europeans
who craved fantasy and exaggeration.
August 17, 2013 - January 6, 2014 - San Marino, California
A
first-of-its-kind exhibition documenting the life of the Franciscan
missionary who founded California’s mission system and the
missions’ impact on California Indians and culture is at the
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 1151
Oxford Road. The exhibition, Junípero Serra and the
Legacies of the California Missions, is unprecedented in its
examination of the spiritual and intellectual influences on Junípero
Serra’s life that led to his founding of the mission system in
California; the transition for thousands of Indians from village to
mission life and their responses to it; romantic notions of
California born amid myrid myths of mission life; and responses of
contemporary Indians, in art and recorded interviews, to the
experience. The exhibition features religious art, diaries and
Bibles, letters, maps and reliquaries that provide the context for
Serra’s early years as a Franciscan priest, his deployment to
Mexico as missionary and agent of the Spanish Inquisition, and the
work that occupied his final years: establishing the first nine of 21
Spanish missions in Alta California.
November 12, 2012 – January 11, 2014 –
Washington
The Library of Congress exhibition commemorating
the 150th anniversary of the Civil War will feature more than 200
unique items that reveal the complexity of the Civil War through
those who experienced it first-hand. Through diaries, letters, maps,
song sheets, newspapers and broadsides, photographs, drawings and
unusual artifacts, the exhibition will chronicle the sacrifices and
accomplishments of those—from both the North and South—whose
lives were lost or affected by the events of 1861-1865. Many of the
exhibition items have never before been on public view. The Civil
War in America will be free and open to the public, 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, in the Southwest Exhibition
Gallery of the Thomas Jefferson Building at 10 First Street S.E.
April 27, 2013 - January 25, 2014 - King’s Lynn,
England
Lynn is being
put on the map with Lynn Museum’s latest exhibition, King’s
Lynn on the Map, which takes a look at the changes to the town
over the years through a selection of photographs, maps, paintings
and models. On display are examples of maps dating from the 18th and
19th centuries together with a drawn copy of the earliest map showing
Lynn in 1588. The maps show the growth and changes seen by the town
over the centuries, including the improving work of the Paving
Commissioners in the early 19th century when the typical brown-brick
buildings with rounded corners of much of the old town were put in
place. Also on display is a pubs map, marking places licensed to sell
alcohol from 1892, designed to make a political point and discourage
consumption of wine beer and spirits. A copy of a Goad plan from 1975
is a different sort of map showing all the shops and other businesses
in the town centre at the time and will be reminiscent of the period
for many local people. Museum is open open from Tuesday to Saturday,
10am to 5pm.
September 19, 2013 - February 2, 2014 – Durham
The
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2001 Campus Drive, will host
an exhibit entitled Lines of Control. The exhibit focuses on
the meaning of borders and part of the exhibit is called Defining
Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire, and features
presentations on the cartography of borders from Duke University
undergraduate students in the BorderWork(s) Lab.
October 2, 2013 - February 2, 2014 – Madrid
The
exhibition The exploration of the Pacific: 500 years of History
commemorates the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Vasco Nunez de
Balboa to the Pacific Ocean. It is a joint project of the Casa de
América and the Museo Naval. Over 170 items will be on display
including compasses, maps, charts, and models. The exhibit can be
seen in Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera Hall, Casa de América.
Enter at Marqués del Duero, nº 2. Open Tuesday to
Saturday from 11.00 to 20.00. Sundays from 11.00 to 15.00.
October 29, 2013 – February 2, 2014 – Moncton, New
Brunswick
A new exhibit at l’Universite de Moncton 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.
December 7, 2013 – February 2, 2014 - St. Gallen,
Switzerland
St.Gallen
à la carte - Alte Karten und Pläne fürs neue Jahr
is
an exhibition of maps and plans of St. Gallen which can be seen in
the State Archives of St. Gallen, Kulturraum am Klosterplatz,
Klosterhof 1.
February 6-14, 2014 - Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
For
the first time, a unique collection of centuries-old cartographic
material, rare maps and history is in spotlight at the Dr Sultan Al
Qasimi Centre of Gulf Studies during the fourth Sharjah Light
Festival that is simultaneously taking place in 12 locations. Located
by the main entrance to University City, the Dr Sultan Al Qasimi
Centre of Gulf Studies is a magnificent cornerstone providing
researchers with integrated and comprehensive historical and
geographical information tracing the development, history and
heritage of life in the Arabian Gulf. The centre contains a number of
exhibits that come directly from His Highness’s private
collection; original and historical collector’s maps, the very
first images of the region and rare coins with special relevance to
the Gulf.
November 16, 2013 - February 16, 2014 – Munich
Philipp
Apian at the age of 23, 250 years ago, gets the job of his life at
the behest of Duke Albrecht V. He is do the first survey and mapping
of the whole duchy of Bavaria. Nine years of work resulted in the
production of a 5x5 meter map, approximately 1:45,000, of Bavaria.
This map, plus later maps showing the surveying and cartographic
development of Bavaria, can be seen in the exhibition Die
Vermessung Bayerns – 450 Jahre Philipp Apians Große Karte
[The measurement of Bavaria - 450 years Philipp Apian large map]
at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Ludwigstr. 16.
September 7, 2013 - February 24, 2014 - Trenton, New Jersey
In
an age of GPS, smartphones and Google Earth, some people see paper
maps as useless tools of a bygone era. To Nicholas Ciotola, curator
of cultural history at the New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State
St., old maps still hold value as ideal artifacts for exploring New
Jersey history. The State Museum’s newest exhibition, Where
in the World Is New Jersey? Historical Maps of the Garden State,
presents visitors with stories of New Jersey’s social, economic
and political history — as well as the state’s seminal
role in the history of American transportation — by using the
visual splendor of some of the Garden State’s most important
historic maps. Where in the World Is New Jersey? Historical Maps
of the Garden State is composed of nearly 100 maps depicting the
colony and state of New Jersey from 1635 through 1950.
January 11, 2014 - February 25, 2014 - Freshwater Bay, Isle of
Wight
World War One saw photo-reconnaissance come of age. For
the first time photographs were taken from immediately above the
field of battle and behind enemy lines, giving commanders in the
field a unique and accurate picture of terrain and enemy dispositions
as they planned their operations. The exhibition Aerial
Reconnaissance & the First World War includes examples of
cameras and original photographs and maps showing how they were used
by soldiers planning their activities. Most have been loaned by
descendents currently resident on the Isle of Wight. The exhibit can
be seen at Dimbola Museum and Galleries, Terrace Lane.
September 24, 2013 - February 27, 2014 - Portland, Maine
A
new exhibition at the Osher Map Library gives visitors an idea of the
challenges that early cartographers faced when creating maps of the
world before the world had been fully discovered. To the Ends of
the Earth and Back begins with the mere concepts of the polar
regions, and ends with photos of the South Pole taken when explorers
finally reached it early in the 20th century. The exhibition, made up
of images on loan from the Jay I. Kislak Polar Collection in Miami
Lakes, Fla., offers lessons in science, exploration and, perhaps
memorably, the human spirit. With more than 80 maps, charts, books,
photographs and other artifacts, To the Ends of the Earth
presents a history of the polar regions and the centuries-old quest
to map, find and conquer them. The Osher Map Library and Smith Center
for Cartographic Education is located on the Portland campus of the
University of Southern Maine. It occupies the three-story building at
the corner of Forest Avenue and Bedford Street.
October 16, 2013 – February 28, 2014 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Harvard's
Pusey Library, Map Gallery Hall, has the exhibit Not
So True North: Early Mapping of the Arctic.
Jeremy Pool, former president of
the Boston Map Society, is the guest curator. The exhibit explores
over 400 years of mapping the arctic. Beginning in the late 15th
century, a time when the polar areas were completely unexplored and
cartographers filled the arctic regions on their maps with theory or
fantasy, the exhibit proceeds to show how exploration and commercial
activity (particularly whaling) fed information back to the
map-making centers of Europe and gradually, though often in fits and
starts, transformed our geographic understanding of the far north.
October 8, 2013 – March 2, 2014 – Jerusalem
Mapping
the Holy Land II, Cartographic Treasures from the Trevor and Susan
Chinn Collection is on display in the Kay Merrill Hillman
Gallery, Israel Museum. The exhibit is curated by Ariel Tishby. The
centerpiece of this display is Bernhard von Breydenbach’s
seminal 1486 map of the Holy Land. One of the first printed maps, it
was created from three woodblocks by the Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich.
December 14, 2013 – March 2, 2014 – Bern
Biwak#08.
Tierra incógnita. Robert Helblings Kartenschatz aus
Argentinien can
be seen at the Swiss Alpine Museum, Helvetiaplatz 4.
November 7, 2013 - March 10, 2014 – Canberra
From
the world’s great maps collections come the charts that
inspired the European idea of Australia, from ancient and medieval
notions of a great south land to Matthew Flinders’ 1814 map of
the continent. Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia
brings together over 100 spectacular maps, atlases, globes and
scientific instruments from the National Library of Australia and
Australian and international lenders, including the British Library,
the National Archives of the United Kingdom, the Vatican Library, the
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and the Bibliothèque nationale
de France. This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition can be seen at National
Library of Australia located on Parkes Place, in Canberra's
Parliamentary triangle. The exhibit coincides with both the centenary
of Canberra in 2013 and the bicentenary of Flinders’ chart in
2014. A celebration of some of the world’s most significant
discoveries, Mapping Our World is also a re-evaluation of
Australia’s mapping past, with unique works by the most eminent
names in the history of cartography including Ptolemy, Gerard
Mercator, the Blaeu family, Abraham Ortelius, Vincenzo Coronelli,
Louis de Freycinet, James Cook and Matthew Flinders.
November 8, 2013 - March 10, 2014 – Boston
Boston
was the metropolis of England’s North American colonies, with
the largest population and economy of any urban center through the
1750s. It was also the leading producer of printed maps, including
major colonial “firsts” such as the first printed map,
first city map, first battle plan, and first map engraved on copper.
Made in Boston, at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the
Boston Public Library in Copley Square, brings together, for the
first time, a majority of these maps made in Boston in the century
before the American Revolution. As a group they are remarkable for
their idiosyncrasies of style and important contributions to
geographical knowledge. These maps reflect distinct concerns of New
Englanders in general and Bostonians in particular: Pride in their
fine city, the hazards of navigating the New England coast, conflict
and collaboration with the native inhabitants, and the French for
mastery of North America, and landownership concerns. This exhibition
affords a unique perspective on the ambitions, anxieties and sense of
identity that animated colonial Bostonians. Michael Buehler, owner
Boston Rare Maps, is the guest curator.
October 22, 2013 - March 22, 2014 – London
SOAS,
University of London marks the bicentenary of the birth of the
missionary and explorer, Dr David Livingstone, with an exhibition at
the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square. The show
will bring together, for the first time, rarely seen letters,
photographs, maps and artefacts, including a set of surgical
instruments thought to have belonged to this iconic figure. SOAS will
stage the exhibition in the Foyle Special Collections Gallery of the
Brunei Gallery as part of the Livingstone 200 events taking place in
the UK, Zambia and Malawi.
January 22, 2014 - March 22, 2014 - Nanaimo, British
Columbia
Nanaimo Museum's new exhibit will showcase the bare
bones of Nanaimo in the city's earliest days. Navigating Nanaimo:
Maps and Charts of the Harbour City will delve deep into some of
the earliest charts, maps and measurements of Nanaimo, providing
observers with a close-up look at how the city was planned and mapped
in its earliest days. The exhibit will feature early plans of the
city, harbour charts and a look at the underground network of mines
throughout the city. The latter is provided by a 26 foot long map
stretching from the former Southfield No. 2 Mine, near to where
existing regional landfill is now, all the way to Brechin Point. This
exhibit will mark only the third time the map has been displayed. The
exhibit will also include a chart of the city's harbour complied by
George H. Richards, a Royal Navy officer who conducted a survey of
the Vancouver Island coast beginning in 1860.
September 14, 2013 - March 30, 2014 - Halifax, Nova
Scotia
Henry VII is
the first monarch of record with a documented interest in the area
now known as Nova Scotia. Prints of Henry Tudor and the twenty-two
monarchs who have followed him accompany prints, drawings, eight
maps, and sculpture that reflect their connections to Nova Scotia and
its people in the exhibition The Royal Province of Nova Scotia and
the Crown. Exhibition can be seen at Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Halifax, 1723 Hollis Street.
October 5, 2013 - March 31, 2014 – Luxembourg
The
temporary exhibition Genie und Festung can be seen at Musée
Dräi Eechelen. The exhibit is conducted in cooperation with the
Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage. It shows sixty
plans from the Berlin State Library, which are among the most
important kept abroad together. Accompanied by a multimedia
presentation, 3D animation and film, the exhibition highlights the
implementation, digitization and the importance of these plans in the
history of Luxembourg.
February 20, 2014 - April 6, 2014 - Worcester,
Massachusetts
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the
College of the Holy Cross, O’Kane Hall, 1st Floor, 1 College
Street, will present Global Encounters in Early America. The
exhibition is curated by Patricia Johnston, the Rev. J. Gerard Mears,
S.J., Chair in Fine Arts, with Holy Cross curatorial seminar students
Brigit Baines ‘16, Katherine Benjamin ‘15, Caroline Fador
‘14, Abigail Hynes-Houston ‘14, Gregory Joyce ‘14,
Maddie Klett ‘14 and Lily Meehan ‘14. Global
Encounters in Early America explores the global visual culture
that circulated in early America before 1840. The exhibition asks:
what did early Americans know about the rest of the world, and how
did interactions with other cultures make an impact on American arts?
The primary focus of the exhibition is the emergence of direct trade
with China and the rest of Asia after the American Revolution. The
exhibition includes maps, atlases, engravings, and book illustrations
drawn from the unparalleled collection of the American Antiquarian
Society in Worcester, Mass. These visual forms instructed the newly
emerging American mercantile class in geographic, cultural, economic,
and aesthetic knowledge.
March 1, 2014 - April 12, 2014 - Crawfordsville,
Indiana
Indiana Through the Map Maker’s Eye is an
exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County, 222 S Washington
St; and is on loan from the Indiana Historical Society. This
exhibition, drawn from maps and atlases of Indiana and the Midwest
dating from 1577 to the present, examines four ways people have used
maps through the years, including documentation, tools, political
images, and art. From the beginning of the mapping of the Indiana
region, map makers were concerned with documenting the land. Maps
showed the expansion of European settlement, with a simultaneous
decrease in the presence of Native Americans. Also maps documented
legal boundary lines in the region, state, and individual counties,
and showed increasingly complex road, canal, and railroad networks.
Some of the maps displayed in the exhibition include: an 1833
tourist’s Indiana pocket map; a 1913 Sanborn Company fire
insurance map for Bloomington; Thomas Kitchin’s 1747 map of
French settlements in North America; an 1881 bird’s-eye view of
Mount Vernon, Indiana.; and a circa 1880 scale-model map of the
University of Notre Dame.
September 21, 2013 – April 13, 2014 - Tampa,
Florida
Charting the Land of Flowers: 50 Years of Florida
Maps is the title of both the exhibition and catalogue being
produced by and displayed at the Tampa Bay History Center, 801 Old
Water Street. They tell the story of exploration, settlement and
growth of Florida and the significant role it played in our nation's
history. The publication of the catalogue and opening of the
exhibition will coincide with the 500th anniversary of Ponce de
Leon's arrival in, and the naming of, Florida in 1513. In addition to
the 150 maps, dating from the 1500s to the present, included in the
primary exhibition and its catalogue; there will be a "secondary"
exhibition of 75 or more other (and generally more casual or more
contemporary) maps in another area within the History Center.
January 31, 2014 - April 13, 2014 - Chapel Hill, North
Carolina
“The New Found Land”: Engravings by
Theodor de Bry from the Collection of Michael N. Joyner - This
exhibition at the Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street,
highlights prints made by the Franco-Flemish engraver Theodor de Bry
(1528-1598) to illustrate the 1590 edition of "A Briefe and True
Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" by Thomas Harriot.
Divided into three sections, “The New Found Land”
includes portraits, maps, and other materials related to the
so-called “Age of Exploration” 400 years ago; the
illustrations for Harriot’s book; and a selection of Native
American artifacts from societies close in time, place, or lifeway to
those encountered by the Roanoke settlers, thereby balancing the
European (and Europeanizing) view with examples of indigenous
cultural production. Over 40 compelling engravings, some hand-colored
and from various editions of the book, will be supplemented in the
exhibition by related materials from two other University
collections: the North Carolina Collection in the Wilson Special
Collections Library and the North Carolina Archaeological Collection
in the Research Laboratories of Archaeology.
March 16, 2013 – April 19, 2014 - Lexington,
Massachusetts
What is
a map? Maps are data; layers of text, images and symbols that
represent a place at a certain time. Maps can help us find our way,
imagine far away places or understand political and geographical
relationships. The Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library, founded
in 1975, counted historic maps among its first acquisitions. The 40
maps and related objects presented in a new exhibition, Journeys
and Discoveries: The Stories Maps Tell draw on the Museum’s
outstanding holdings in that area. The exhibition is divided in to
five sections, and explores the world of maps from the work of the
cartographer to how students have learned from maps, how travelers
used maps for real and imagined journeys, and how politicians and
merchants employed maps to further their quests for power and
influence. The Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library is
dedicated to presenting exhibitions and programs on a wide variety of
topics in American history and popular culture. The Museum is
supported by the Scottish Rite Freemasons in the Northern Masonic
Jurisdiction of the United States. The Museum is located at 33
Marrett Road at the corner of Route 2A and Massachusetts Avenue. The
Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Admission to the Museum is free. For further information contact the
Museum at (781) 861-6559.
March 30, 2014 - April 30, 2014 – Fresno, California
The
Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State in cooperation with the
Gomidas Institute (London), and the Leon S. Peters Foundation present
Remembering the Armenians of Bitlis, an exhibit on the second
floor of the Henry Madden Library, 5200 N. Barton Ave. The exhibit
highlights rare photos, documents, and maps from the Bitlis area.
April 1, 2013 – April 30, 2014 - La Jolla, California
The
Map & Atlas Museum of La Jolla has an exhibition The Cartes of
Jacinto 'Jo' Mora. The exhibit will feature 14 cartes--Mora's
name (and the French word) for his stunning pictorgraphic maps. In
additon to the five maps in the Museums' permanent exhibition, 9
other maps will be on display including the sketch map for the
never-comlpleted "Santa Catalina" map and the very rare
"butcher paper" version of the Los Angeles map. Other
artifacts from this modern-day Renaissance cartographers' work wil be
on view as well. The Museum is at 7825 Fay Ave Suite LL-A, and is
open Wednesdays & Thursdays; 1st and 3rd Saturdays from 11 AM to
4 PM; also by appointment (toll free) 855-653-6277. Admission is
free.
June 12, 2013 – May 4, 2014 – Montreal
The
Stewart Museum presents the exhibition 20 000 Leagues Over Land
and Sea - Exploring Six Centuries of Cartography. Discover some
hundred maps from the Stewart Museum’s collection, the largest,
most consistent and comprehensive collection of ancient cartography
and cosmography conserved by a private museum in Quebec. On display
are world maps, continental maps, maps of countries, sea charts,
polar maps, celestial maps and city maps. A selection of
navigational, astronomical and surveying instruments as well as
globes of the earth and the heavens—all from the Stewart
Museum’s collection — complements the exhibition. More
than six centuries of mapmaking will be presented, with special
emphasis on the Age of Discovery, from the 15th to the 18th
centuries. This is an outstanding opportunity to discover the
little-known yet fascinating world of ancient mapmaking.
November 5, 2013 - May 5, 2014 – Nanjing
Nanjing
and Edinburgh will both play host to A Tale of Two Cities,
which will draw together rarely-seen material from the centuries-old
archives held on the two cities. Aerial photography, architectural
drawings, maps, prints, engravings, paintings, costumes and museum
artifacts will be pulled together for the exhibition, which will open
in Nanjing Museum, No.321 Zhongshan East Road, before heading to
Scotland’s capital in 2014. The displays in the new exhibition
will focus on the early formation of the two cities, their
architectural and urban evolution, and gradual expansion right up to
the modern-day era. Visitors will be able to explore the two cities
through both historical maps and aerial photographs, as well as
state-of-the-art touch table technology. The exhibition has been
developed by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical
Monuments of Scotland; Nanjing Museum, one of the largest museums in
China; and Nomad Exhibitions, based in Scotland.
February 28, 2014 - May 17, 2014 – Atlanta
Mapping
Place: Africa Beyond Paper can be seen at the Robert C. Williams
Paper Museum, 500 10th Street NW. An Africa Atlanta 2014 event,
Mapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper invites visitors to explore
the ways that the changing representation and projection of space has
shaped our approach to Africa. It will include examples of European
representations of Africa on paper maps from the late 16th to the
20th century, along with African artifacts and paper objects
pertaining to the scientific, administrative commercial and military
exploitation of the continent by European and North American
interests. Visitors will also see examples of GIS mapping
technologies used for reviewing mining resources in the Congo as well
as examples of the ways that underprivileged inhabitants in Nairobi
have begun to map the space in which they live. Museum hours are 9 am
to 5 pm Monday through Friday.
February 28, 2014 - May 18, 2014 - Madison,
Wisconsin
Marginalia in cARTography explores the visual
discourse between marginal artistic images and the maps where they
appear, as this marginalia sheds light on the content and purpose of
the maps, their authors and patrons, and on the historical period
when they were made. The exhibition also explores cartography as an
art form, with a focus on the representations in the map margins. The
exhibition can be seen at Chazen Museum of Art, Leslie and Johanna
Garfield Gallery, 750 University Avenue on the UW–Madison
campus. The exhibit is guest curated by Sandra Sáenz-López
Pérez, an art historian who specializes in the iconographical
analysis of maps and the artistic interest of historical cartography.
View and download the exhibition catalogue, “Marginalia in
CARTography” by Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez
under the Catalogues section.
February 20, 2014 - May 26, 2014 – London
Turning
numbers into pictures that tell important stories and reveal the
meaning held within is an essential part of what it means to be a
scientist. This is as true in today's era of genome sequencing and
climate models as it was in the 19th century. Beautiful Science:
Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight, at the British Library at St
Pancras, Folio Society Gallery, explores how our understanding of
ourselves and our planet has evolved alongside our ability to
represent, graph and map the mass data of the time. From John Snow's
plotting of the 1854 London cholera infections on a map to colourful
depictions of the tree of life, discover how picturing scientific
data provides new insight into our lives.
March 5, 2014 - May 31, 2014 – Cambridge, England
Sea
Monsters to Sonar: Charting the Polar Oceans can be seen at Scott
Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road.
This exhibition traces the development and use of maps of the Polar
oceans and coastlines. Hydrography, the mapping of the seafloor and
coast, has been an essential aspect of humanity's engagement with
these hostile and frequently contested regions during times of
exploration, speculation, science and the pursuit of economic
resources. Maps are crucial tools for survival. For this exhibition
the gallery space will be transformed into a trail of discovery
revealing imagined and established trade routes, and journeys made
for scientific discovery. Objects of significant interest on display
include replica Greenlandic driftwood maps, a life-size submarine
control room, hand drawn charts produced at the cost of many lives,
electronic charts in the modern era and an original 16th century
atlas depicting fictional Arctic islands.
June 21, 2013 - June 2014 - Lancaster, South Carolina
The
Shaping of South Carolina: A Story of Adventure, Politics, and
Boundary Making - This South Carolina Historical Society exhibit
is open at the Native American Studies Center, 119 South Main Street.
The exhibit details the disputes, politics, and science surrounding
the state’s boundary lines from colonial times to the present.
The exhibit features original maps from the collection of the South
Carolina Historical Society, and quotations concerning the science of
surveying from noted surveyor and Revolutionary hero, General William
Moultrie. In addition, the exhibit highlights the borders that are
still in contention today.
March 7, 2014 - June 1, 2014 - Pyrian, Slovenia
An
exhibition entitled Piri Reis, the Cartographer of Sultan Süleyman
has opened at the Sergej Masera Maritime Museum, Cankarjevo nab. 3.
As part of the exhibition, visitors will have the chance to see some
cities on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, as well as the 16th-century
Mediterranean region through the eyes of Ottoman sailors.
February 21, 2014 - June 6, 2014 - San Antonio
The 1836
Battle of the Alamo wasn't a fight between Texans and Mexicans - it
was a struggle between tyranny and liberty. This epic tale will be
told from a different perspective, focusing on the Tejanos who fought
and died in the battle. Standing Their Ground: Tejanos at the
Alamo will honor the Tejano Alamo defenders as well as the Tejano
and Tejana survivors, revealing them to Texans today with an exhibit
of details culled from their own writings, rare documents and
historic artifacts. The exhibit, located in the Alamo, will include
dozens of original documents, maps and artifacts on the eight Tejano
men of Hispanic or American Indian lineage who were among the 189
known defenders killed in the battle. Exhibit items will be from the
Land Office, Alamo collection, Briscoe Center for American History in
Austin and Alamo Research Center — the former DRT Library.
April 5, 2014 - June 8, 2014 - Banff, Alberta
Whyte
Museum of the Canadian Rockies, 111 Bear Street, has an exhibit
titled Cartography. Canada is depicted through its illustrated
geography with a selection of maps on loan from private collector Bob
Sandford. An internationally respected naturalist, advisor and
author, Sandford promotes water conservation and campaigns for global
watersheds and reserves. Maps from the Whyte Museum’s archival
collection are included, providing a broad range of locations to
explore.
April 24, 2014 - June 8 , 2014 - Fukuyama City, Hiroshima
A
collector has donated 848 items--including hundreds of antique
maps--to the Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History. Hisashi Moriya,
a 72-year-old Fukuyama native and former chairman of Merrill Lynch
Japan, amassed the collection over 30 years. The donations include
133 antique maps compiled in Europe and 210 antique maps and
illustrations made in Japan. One of them, “Map of Asia,”
is believed to have been produced by Dutch cartographer Jacob Floris
van Langren in 1596. The donated collection also contains books about
how Europeans viewed early modern Japan. The museum plans to hold an
exhibition showing more than 100 items from the collection.
October 22, 2013 - June 14, 2014 - Ilford, Essex
A
Redbridge Museum exhibition, Redbridge in Maps, is inviting
visitors to discover over 2,000 years of local history using a range
of maps. The museum, located on the 2nd Floor Central Library,
Clements Road, show maps from the 17th Century to modern phone apps.
It will explore how Ilford, Wanstead and Woodford transformed from
small country villages to the London suburbs they are today.
Redbridge can be seen in a new light in wartime bomb damage maps,
archive photographs, museum objects, oral history and film. The
exhibition can be viewed Tuesdays to Fridays 10am to 5pm and
Saturdays 10am to 4pm.
May 23, 2014 - June 14, 2014 – Oslo
The University
of Oslo Library is exhibiting a small collection of unique Hand-drawn
old Norwegian Maps that were drawn by the Norwegian officers C.C.
Buhholz and J. H. Reichborn. The maps were drawn in the first half of
the 1800s and can be seen in Galleri Svedrup, Georg Sverdrups hus,
Blindern. The maps show the main roads out from Christiania to
Svinasund, Christian Sand, Kongsvinger, and Kongsberg and up to
Filefjell. Landscape features along the roads are outlined. The
exhibition is a collaboration between Oslo University Library and the
National Library. Following the exhibition, the maps will be
transferred to the National Library which has a large collection of
maps. The maps can be seen on-line at
http://www.ub.uio.no/om/aktuelt/arrangementer/annet/2014/pdf/kartserie.pdf.
June 18-20, 2014 - My Tho City, Vietnam
An exhibit
featuring paintings, photos, maps and evidence of Vietnam’s
sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly)
archipelagos will take place in Tien Giang Province. The exhibit,
Chung Tay Giu Gin Bien Dao Viet Nam [Let’s Safeguard
Vietnam’s Seas and Islands], running at the province’s
Culture and Information Center (27 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street, Ward 4),
displays 93 maps, including researcher Nguyen Dinh Dau’s
collection, which reiterate Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa
and Truong Sa since 1940.
March 21, 2014 – June 23, 2014 – Hong Kong
Mapping
Ming China’s Maritime World – The Selden Map and Other
Treasures from the University of Oxford can
be seen at Hong
Kong Maritime Museum, Central, Pier 8. This exhibition presents the
early 17th century maritime heritage of the Ming Dynasty, including
unique collections from the Oxford University’s Boldeian
Libraries. Among the items on display are the Selden Map of China and
the manuscript, Shun Feng Xiang Song (also known as Laud Rutter).
Most of the objects are displayed to the public in Hong Kong for the
first time. It is a unique opportunity to experience these
extraordinary tools and resources from ancient mariners.This
exhibition is jointly organised by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum and
Oxford University’s Bodleian Libraries.
July 2014 - Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Fernando da
Silva, a Bridgewater artist, was born in the Azores. He acquired his
first map, "Isles Acores" printed in Paris in 1787, in 1969
when he was 7 years old. It was the first of hundreds of maps da
Silva would acquire over the years and is among those hanging on the
walls of the Bridgewater Public Library, 15 South St., four decades
later. They date from as early as the 16th century to as late as the
20th. One zooms in on a single island like a street map, while
another depicts the Azores with the whole of the Earth’s
surface as their backdrop. One puts the Azores at the top of the
world, another in the Americas and still another in Africa.
June 17, 2014 - July 4, 2014 - Ho Chi Minh City
An
exhibition featuring the Central Highlands City of Da Lat will be
held at the city’s General Science Library at 69 Ly Tu Trong
Street in District 1. Titled Da Lat, et la carte créa la
ville [Da Lat and the establishment map], the exhibition is
jointly presented by the French School of Asian Studies, the French
Institute in Vietnam and the HCMC General Science Library. The event
hopes to provide visitors chances to get to know more about the city,
as well as its establishment and development process through the maps
displayed at the event.
March 13, 2014 - July 8, 2014 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ever
since the revival of classical learning in the Renaissance, Europe's
most prominent mapmakers—including Mercator, Ortelius,
Janssonius, Sanson, and Delisle—have regarded it as part of
their professional duty to apply their craft to an imaginative
restoration of the past. Each age has its own peculiar Zeitgeist
(yearning for a Golden Age, looking for inspiration in religious
saints or secular heroes, or taking satisfaction in the extent of
progress from "less enlightened" times), but the urge to
court Clio (the muse of history) has been an ongoing theme in
cartographic circles. The exhibit Courting Clio: Maps and the
Historical Imagination explores the ways in which mapmakers frame
past events, how they deploy textual and graphic aids in the service
of historical narrative, and how they endeavor to convey temporal
changes through static images. Whether the subject is the Exodus, the
conquests of Alexander the Great, the barbarian invasions of Europe,
or the arduous trek of Mormons to the Great Salt Lake, the focus here
is on efforts to map our collective peregrinations through time. The
exhibition be seen at Map Gallery Hall, Pusey Library. For details
contact Joseph Garver at 617-496-3670.
May 7, 2014 - July 17, 2014 - Glens Falls, New York
Todd
DeGarmo, director of The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library,
set up a new gallery exhibit: Collecting Lake George. The
exhibit of historic maps, prints, postcards and other memorabilia of
Lake George is open any time the library is open. The library is at
251 Glen St.
March 22, 2014 – August 23, 2014 – Boston
Explore
Boston's ethnic diversity and neighborhoods with a special exhibition
featuring maps of Boston's immigrant population based on the 2010
Census using historic, modern and digitized maps. A
City of Neighborhoods: The Changing Face of Boston can
be seen at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at
the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston St.
June 2, 2014 - August 23, 2014 – Richmond
Where
you live makes all the difference, but that difference has a history.
The current circumstances of Richmond’s neighborhoods have
roots in state and federal policies that have had lasting effects on
concentrations of poverty and growth, lending patterns,
homeownership, and educational outcomes for children. Neighborhoods
that received a D grade in the 1950s now have a high concentration of
federal housing subsidies and high levels of poverty. Children in
these same neighborhoods score lower on SOL tests than their peers in
neighborhoods with low poverty rates. During the foreclosure crisis,
these neighborhoods featured high rates of default. We can use
historic and current maps and data to better understand the
connection between public policy and economic development in the
Richmond region. Mapping RVA: Where You Live Makes All the
Difference is on display at the Library of Virginia, 800 East
Broad Street. It features contemporary maps by Housing Opportunities
Made Equal and historic maps from the LVA Collections.
June 3, 2014 - August 24, 2014 - Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Story
of the Platte as Told in Maps features maps from 1673 up to 1856.
The display is in conjunction with the 300th anniversary of the
European discovery of the mouth of the Platte. The maps will be on
view at Cass County Museum, 640 Main Street. The Museum is open noon
to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
May 20, 2014 - August 31, 2014 – Naples
Giovanni
Antonio Rizzi Zannoni (1736-1814) is among the major Italian
geographers and cartographers in the modern age. On the occasion of
the bicentenary of his death, an exhibition of documents and maps can
be seen at the Archivio di Stato in Naples entitled Un geografo
alla corte dei Re di Napoli [A geographer at the court of the Kings
of Naples].
June 12, 2014 – August 31, 2014 – Spartanburg,
South Carolina
Spartanburg
Regional History Museum houses one of the most impressive historic
map collections in the region. Maps Alive! showcases dozens of
maps tracing the history of South Carolina and the southeastern
United States.
July 7, 2014 – September 12, 2014 – Wellington, New
Zealand
An extremely rare
copy of the first book to be printed in Antarctica features in the
latest exhibition at the National Library's Turnbull Gallery. The
exhibition, Extreme
south: Antarctica Imagined,
draws on collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library to illustrate
how Antarctica was perceived in the two thousand years before
explorers actually reached the South Pole. The books, maps and
illustrations on display all represent visions of Antarctica when it
was quite literally Terra Incognita - 'the unknown land'. Exhibits
range from a 16th-century map that populates a vast land mass with
camels, elephants and unicorns to one of only 30 bound copies of
Aurora Australis, the first book to be written and printed on the
Ice. The book was a winter activity of members of Ernest Shackleton's
1908-09 expedition to Antarctica.
September 4-14, 2014 – London
Let your inner
historian run riot with this collection of printed maps of London
from 1572-2014. The exhibit Mapping London can be seen at
gallery@oxo, Bargehouse Street, South Bank.
April 1, 2014 – September 21, 2014 – Clinton, New
Jersey
Just in time
for the 350th Anniversary of the state of New Jersey and Hunterdon’s
Tercentennial Celebration, the Red Mill Museum Village announces the
opening of a new exhibition, Maps of Hunterdon County. This
exhibition features rare lithographed large format maps spanning the
decades of the 1830’s to 1880’s as well as pictorial maps
and tax survey maps. The exhibit also features a stunning diorama of
19th century surveyors with period equipment. In addition there are
two hands-on activities and a locally made 19th century surveyor’s
compass. The museum is at 56 Main St. The exhibition is open during
museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5
p.m.
September 14-21, 2014 - Ann Arbor, Michigan
University
of Michigan students have used historical pictures and maps in a
library exhibit to chronicle Ann Arbor’s experience as a
Community for Victory during World War II. The display, a
joint project between the Clark Library in the Hatcher Graduate
Library and the Ann Arbor District Library, highlights both
individual stories and the overall growth that Ann Arbor experienced
between 1941 and 1945. The exhibit on Michigan’s campus
includes maps of Ann Arbor from the turn of the 20th century to the
present. The exhibit is located on the second floor of the Hatcher
Graduate Library on the University of Michigan Diag.
September 19-21, 2014 - Civitella del Lago, Italy
Associazione
Roberto Almagià [Italian Map Collector Society] has just
completed a catalog of an exhibition of Rizzi Zannoni maps of
Italy and Italian regions titled "L’Italia del
Cavaliere Rizzi Zannoni." The exhibition will be on display only
during the three days of the "Annual Meeting" of the
Associazione Roberto Almagià in Sala Brizzi. This year is the
bicentenary of the death of the great Italian XVIII century
astronomer and cartographer. Among the very rare maps on exhibit will
be the only three known surviving sheets of a map of Papal States
(1798-1799) now in Vladimiro Valerio collection of ZAnnoniana. A
manuscript draft of the same map, dated around the second half of
1798, is in the British Library.
August 26, 2014 – September 26, 2014 - Padova, Italy
This
year is the bicentenary of the death of the great Italian XVIII
century astronomer and cartographer Rizzi Zannoni. An exhibition,
which will be held in Padova at Museo della Specola [Museum of the
Astronomical Observatory], is titled Giovanni Antonio Rizzi
Zannoni, cartografo e geografo - Visita al Museo La Specola e
all'esposizione della tesa parigina.
On display will be a French book of measurements from
1776 which belonged to Rizzi Zannoni and was donated by him to the
Astronomical Observatory of Padova before leaving Padova for Naples
in 1781. Also on display are other historical instruments owned by
the Museum. Contact Valeria Zani at Museo La Specola for additional
information.
September 22-27, 2014 - Wailuku, Hawaii
The Bailey House
Museum, in partnership with Bryant Neal, Richard Mickelson, and The
Story of Hawaii Museum, is proud to present The Mapping of Hawaii,
Part II, a singular and unique experience that combines history,
geography, cartography, and historical artifacts of the Hawaiian
Islands to create a wonderfully educational and entertaining
experience. This special exhibition covers the daring exploits of
Polynesian navigators to the maps made by early explorers, the
Hawaiian monarchy, Hawaii’s territorial days, World War II,
Statehood to present. On rare display will be restored maps of early
Lahaina Town.
April 11, 2014 – October 12, 2014 – Augsburg
In
the 18th century Augsburg was one of the major European centers of
map production. An equally skillful and renowned individual in this
field was the cartographer Tobias Conrad Lotter. He first worked for
his father-in-law Matthew Seutter. After his death, the publishing
business was continued by his sons and grandsons. The finely engraved
and beautifully designed maps and atlases from Lotter found wide
distribution and contributed significantly to the dissemination of
geographical knowledge. Featuring more than 80 pieces from a private
collection, the special exhibition The world of Augsburg - maps by
Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) and his successors is a
fascinating look at the variety of content and artistic opulence of
old maps. The exhibit can be see at Schaezlerpalais Augsburg,
Maximilianstrasse 46.
June 1, 2014 - October 15, 2014 - Austin, Texas
The
Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of The University of
Texas at Austin has installed the exhibition Mapping Mexican
History: Territories in Dispute, Identities in Question at
Austin’s Faulk Central Library, 800 Guadalupe. The exhibition,
located on the Library’s second floor, traces the intertwined
and often contentious relationships between indigenous and European,
civil and religious, and “national” and foreign, in
Mexico’s evolution from colonial territory to modern state.
May 1, 2014 – October 31, 2014 – Portsmouth, New
Hampshire
The
Portsmouth Historical Society will exhibit at the John Paul Jones
House, 43 Middle Street, Mapping the Piscataqua from John Smith to
Google Maps.
June 3, 2014 – October 31, 2014 – Busan, Korea
The
National Maritime Museum has an exhibition The
Way to the Unknown World which
features maps, globes, and tools used by navigators to safely sail
the seas.
June 19, 2014 - October, 2014 - Machias, New York
The
Cattaraugus County Museum has opened their new Civil War exhibit; Let
Us Have Peace: A Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the Civil War in
its Fourth Year. Made possible by the loaning of Civil War
artifacts by several Cattaraugus County residents, the exhibit
showcases maps, letters and enlistment papers. The Cattaraugus County
Museum is located in the Stone House, 9824 Route 16. It’s open
Tuesday through Thursday from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. For more information,
contact the museum at 716-353-8200.
October 16-31, 2014 - Caracas, Venezuela
The
exhibition This Earth that Speaks my Language. Indigenous
Cartographies can be seen at the National Art Gallery, Avenida
Sur 17, as part of the events organized to commemorate the Day of
Indigenous Resistance, October 12. The exhibition will display maps
made by pre-hispanic cultures to delimit their lands. Visitors will
be able to contemplate the maps that cartographically described the
indigenous territory, showing rivers, savannas, jungles, mountains,
paths as well as the name of those places in their original language.
June 27, 2014 - November 11, 2014 – Edinburgh
The
Map Library is pleased to make available all our holdings of trench
maps of the Western Front, coinciding with the exhibition Behind
the lines: Personal stories of the First World War in the
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge building. Trench maps
are a primary source for studying the battlefields of the Western
Front, and the location of military positions and defences. They also
record the names that soldiers gave the trenches, as well as the
names of nearby farms, villages, woods, and other landmarks, often
mentioned in related written records. Accurate locations, and the
distances and bearings between them were essential for the artillery,
and trench maps also illustrate the innovative survey, compilation,
and map printing technologies that advanced rapidly during the War.
Comparing trench maps to each other over time, and to the present
day, allows a detailed and fascinating graphic insight into the
changing topography of the Western Front.
July 23, 2014 – November 11, 2014 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
From the Alps to the Ocean: Maps of the
Western Front can be see at the Harvard Map Collection, Map
Gallery Hall, Pusey Library. World War One is often described as the
first truly modern war, a war where advances in technology had
outpaced the tactical thinking of the day. The massive changes that
occurred in the field of military technology were mirrored in the
field of map mapmaking. New technologies led to new cartographic
methods and techniques and to an increased reliance on maps. On the
battlefield, cartographers were churning out maps of the trenches
almost daily. At home, maps were being used to rally the home front
in Europe and to try to convince the United States to join the
Entente powers. Immediately after the war, maps were used to help
decide how to redefine Europe. At the centennial of the start of the
war, this exhibit explores the roles of maps and mapping on the
battlefield and at home.
August 15, 2014 - November 12, 2014 - Snape, Suffolk
Rarely
seen original artwork, maps and posters by a master of graphic art &
design. Exhibition includes pen-and-ink drawings, designs and papers
unearthed at Gill’s family home. Examining the work of an
extraordinary artist, designer and architect, this exhibition
explores the career of a man who produced a captivating and
innovative range of graphic design in many forms, across four
decades. MacDonald (Max) Gill (1884-1947) was a graphic artist of
extraordinary ability and versatility. The younger brother of the
sculptor and typographer Eric Gill, Max was best known for his
decorative maps. Maps To Memorials – Exploring The Work Of
Macdonald Gill can be seen at the Lettering Arts Centre Suffolk’s
Snape Maltings arts complex. Opening times: Fridays, Saturdays,
Sundays and Mondays 11am until 5pm. If you make a special journey to
see the exhibition, please ring the doorbell and you will be very
welcome to view the exhibition.
October 27, 2014 - November 28, 2014 – Florence
2014
is the bicentenary of the death of scientist Giovanni Antonio
Rizzi Zannoni (Padova, 1736 - Naples, 1814), astronomer, surveyor,
cartographer and geographer. Le
Matrici Cartografiche Dell’Officina Topografica Di Giovanni
Antonio Rizzi Zannoni is
an exhibition of copperplates he engraved between 1788 and 1814 while
working in the Topographical Office of Naples. The exhibition can be
seen in Library Attilio Mori, Via Cesare
Battisti, 10, Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 16:00.
September 12, 2014 - November 30, 2014 - Staunton, Virginia
The
American Shakespeare Center, in partnership with Scott Ballin and
with funding from Altria Client Services Inc., proudly announces a
new exhibit at the Augusta County Historical Society Gallery in the
R.R. Smith Center, 20 South New Street. Maps of the 16th and 17th
Centuries: A Tribute to the Works and Times of William Shakespeare
explores the world as Shakespeare would have known it by featuring
approximately 40 original maps from the 16th and 17th centuries. The
maps highlight various places where Shakespeare set his plays,
including England, Scotland, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, the Near
and Middle East, and North Africa, and include works by famous early
modern cartographers Mercator, Ortelius, Hondius, Blaeu and Speed.
Ranging in size from large wall maps to small pieces that travelers
would have carried, these works of art retain their original color
and many include detailed illustrations.
October 23, 2014 – November 30, 2014 – Valladolid,
Spain
Mapas
Antiguos de España / España en el mundo features
maps from the 15th to 19th centuries from the collection of Rodríguez
Torres/Ayuso. Exhibition can be seen at Sala Municipal de
Exposiciones de la Iglesia de las Francesas.
March 22, 2014 – December 2, 2014 – 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.
September 13, 2014 - December 6, 2015 - Lemgo, Germany
The
exhibition Weltvermesser – Das Goldene Zeitalter der
Kartographie [World surveyor - The Golden Age of Cartography]
provides an overview of European cartography of the 16th to 18th
centuries. The focus is on the development of the modern world view
that developed against the background of new geographical discoveries
and astronomical knowledge. You can see maps, atlases and globes; and
instruments and tools used for land surveying, astronomy and
map-making. An attractive, richly illustrated catalog and versatile
companion events complete the program. The exhibition takes place in
the Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloss Brake Lemgo.
June 9, 2014 - December 12, 2014 - Boulder, Colorado
Art
+ Maps can be seen at the Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences &
Map Library, University of Colorado Boulder. Works by four local and
regional artists are exhibited with items from the Map Library
collection. Corresponding maps range from antique maps to aerial
photographs; celestial charts to contemporary expressions of map
design. The juxtaposition of art and maps highlights their formal
similarities, yet also reveals elements and functions showing where
the purposes of the two formats diverge. A selection of maps
emphasizes artistry in cartographic production from various time
periods and cultures. Several attributes particular to maps, such as
decorative borders, cartouches, and directional signs are displayed.
May 16, 2014 - December 16, 2014 – Karachi
An
exhibition of rare maps and prints titled Drawing the Line can
be seen at the Mohatta Palace Museum, 7 Hatim Alva Road. The exhibit
is a must-see not just for the fact that it’s a signpost to
history but also because it’s a visually striking display. It
contains 90 maps and 40 prints taken from different collections,
including those of distinguished history lover Faqir Syed Aijazuddin
and former ambassador Jamsheed Marker. How apt it is to put the map
of India (Giuseppe Rosaccio, After Ptolemy’s Geographia
published in Italy in 1592) as one of the initial exhibits. But that
doesn’t mean that the father of history, Herodotus, has been
overlooked. He is there, with all his wisdom and ‘view of the
world’ (450BC, reconstruction from data recorded in Herodotus’
Histories). A small map of the Indus Delta (Edward Weller, published
for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by J Murray, London
1867) makes for interesting viewing because it is quite difficult to
find a cartographic picture of the beautiful delta dating back to the
19th century. It gives you a sense of continuum in history which is
very important to understand the region. No different is the case
with a map of northern Punjab (1838) and Rajputana Principalities
(1829).
Fall 2014 - December 30, 2014 - Buffalo, New York
Maps
of the United States featuring maps relating to the growth of the
United States from 1800 to 1865 are on display at Karpeles Manuscript
Library, 453 Porter Ave.
July 25, 2014 – December 31, 2014 – Savannah
In
preparation of the 225th anniversary of the City of Savannah,
Virginia and John Duncan of V. & J. Duncan Antique Maps &
Prints are sharing their personal collections, historical maps,
prints, and postcards of Savannah at City Hall. The exhibit, Savannah
Historical Maps and Prints, features a selection of maps and
prints tracing the growth and development of Savannah through the
18th and 19th centuries. This series will be on exhibit for the
public in the first floor rotunda of City Hall, 2 East Bay St.
October 8, 2014 - December 31, 2014 – Berlin
Julius
Straube was the most important cartographer and publisher of official
maps for the Berlin municipal authorities in the late 19th and early
20th centuries, but he also produced some for various Prussian and
Reich authorities as well as for the tourist trade. With a keen sense
of the pulse of the time he reacted quickly to technological
innovations and social developments and "translated" them
artistically and technically into maps. On the occasion of INTERGEO
2014 in Berlin and in cooperation between the State Archive Berlin,
the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment
and the City Museum Foundation Berlin, Cartographic excursions
with Julius Straube will be displayed at Berlin State Archive,
Eichborndamm 115-121.