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October 7, 2016 - January 7, 2017 - Tervuren, Belgium
Stanislas
De Peuter curated an exhibition in De Warandepoort, Vlonderse Hoek
6A. The exhibition features 60 maps by Flemish-Dutch cartographers
in the period 1500-1700. Maps include: portraits, frontispieces,
17 provinces, two Leo Belgicus, coats of arms, cities, regions
(duchies and counties), earliest local maritime maps, many views of
revolt and 80-year war (1568-1648) and Flemish 17th century abbeys. A
68 page catalog, in Dutch, will be available. Additional information
from Stanislas De Peuter (stanislas.depeuter(at)gmail.com).
November 5, 2016 - January 14, 2017 - Carrickfergus, Ulster
The
story of a County Antrim-born soldier who ended his days serving as
the 18th Century governor of the Spanish island of Minorca is to be
outlined – in ‘graphic detail’ – thanks to a
unique atlas. Richard Kane, who was born in Dunane (now Rathcoole) in
December 1662, grew up in Carrickfergus, where his father and uncle
were joint sheriffs of the town. Richard enlisted in the army of
William of Orange, playing an important role in the Williamite Wars,
including the Siege of Londonderry in 1688. Service around the globe
followed and while on route to Minorca in 1712 to become
Lieutenant-Governor of the then British-ruled island of Minorca he
was received at the Palace of Versailles, by Louis XIV. He gave Kane
a beautifully detailed atlas ‘of the Terrestrial and Aquatic
Globe’ as a gift. The exhibition, Mapping The World:
Exploring the importance of Richard Kane and his Atlas, can be
seen at Carrickfergus Museum, 11 Antrim Street. As Kane’s atlas
was created by famous cartographer Nicolas Sanson for the French
monarch, the exhibition allows the opportunity to explore cartography
by making extensive use of antique maps of Carrickfergus, starting
with the oldest map of anywhere in Ulster, Kragfargvs Towne, 1560,
right through to the first ordnance survey map of 1832.
September 15, 2016 - January 15, 2017 - Arlington, Texas
An
exhibit of more than eighty original eighteenth-century maps,
Enlightenment Cartographers and the Southwestern Borderlands,
will be on display in Special Collections, University of Texas
Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place. Highlights include maps by the
Delisle family, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville, Robert de
Vaugondy, Thomas López y Vargas Machuca, Herman Moll, Emanuel
Bowen, Thomas Jefferys, and Aaron Arrowsmith, as well as a rare 1756
French copy of John Mitchell’s 1755 map of North America. Maps
depicting the Southwest by lesser-known Dutch, German, Austrian, and
Italian mapmakers round out the selection.
October 4, 2016 - January 15, 2017 – Utrecht
Exactly
400 years ago, Dutchman Dirk Hartog landed his ship De Eendracht on
the West coast of Australia and became the first European known to
set foot on Western Australian soil. To commemorate this historic
event, the AAMU Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art, Oudegracht
176, in collaboration with the Australian Embassy in the Netherlands,
will present a unique exhibition entitled Mapping Australia:
Country to Cartography. This exhibition will bring together
different worlds, eras and viewpoints – the way European
explorers mapped Australia, and the paintings of Australian
Indigenous artists of this continent, which map the land and depict
the deep connection of the Aboriginal population with it.
June 17, 2016 - January 22, 2017 – Ghent
The
Province of East Flanders stages an exhibition called The Birth of
Capitalism, The Golden Age of the Southern Netherlands at the
Caermersklooster, Vrouwebroersstraat 6. Masterpieces and unknown gems
will accompany the visitor on a journey through the fascinating
Middle Ages and bring the past back to life in a stunning setting.
Together, they tell a story about our cultural history. A story which
sheds light on the rich past of what is now called Flanders. Included
in the exhibition are Ptolemy's 1486 atlas, world map from La Mer des
Histoires, Visscher's Leo Belgicus and Leo Hollandicus, Plancius'
1590 globe, and Vrients' 1610 panorama of Antwerp.
October 2016 - January 2017 - Fort Kent, Maine
Ever
since the first humans ventured out, they needed a way to record the
route from point A to point B. Over the millennia, the evolution of
mapping has taken us from stone carvings to detailed pen-and-ink
drawings to those impossible-to-fold service station road maps to the
current satellite imagery available on any smartphone. Now a display
at the Acadian Archives at the University of Maine at Fort Kent takes
a detailed look at three centuries of map making depicting North
America. Ancient Maps of the New World is part of the private
collection of Franciscan priest Jacques LaPointe, originally from Van
Buren, according to Lise Pelletier, director of the archives. The 39
maps on display at the Acadian Archives represent decades of
LaPointe’s research and collecting.
March 5, 2016 – January 29, 2017 - Williamsburg
Colonial
Williamsburg will display the exhibition We
are One: Mapping the Road to American Independence in
the Gladys and Franklin Clark Foundation Gallery and the Jan Curtis
and Frank J. Spayth Gallery, DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
The exhibition
was developed by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center in
commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Britain’s 1765 Stamp
Act. This pivotal moment sparked American opposition to Britain’s
restrictive colonial policies, particularly taxation without
representation, which was established to help pay for troops
stationed in the colonies during the French and Indian War
(1756-1763). Protesters in Boston hung one of the tax collectors in
effigy on an elm tree near the Boston Common. The tree became known
as the Liberty Tree, and the loose organization of protesters were
known as the Sons of Liberty. This early opposition throughout the
colonies to British imperial control set the stage for growing
opposition to British rule during the next ten years, resulting in
the American Revolutionary War. Employing geographic and cartographic
perspectives, the exhibition will tell the story of how thirteen
separate colonies found a common cause, fought a bloody war for
independence, and finally came together as a new, united nation. The
exhibition will feature a selection of approximately 60 maps
supplemented by 40 related graphic documents, paintings, and three
dimensional objects documenting British North America’s
volatile and rapidly changing political and economic landscape during
the last half of the 18th century. The exhibit moves to the New York
Historical Society in 2017.
September 14, 2016 - February 11, 2017 - Chambéry,
France
Agrandir le monde. Cartes géographiques &
livres de voyage (XVe-XVIIIe siècle) can be seen at
médiathèque Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
September 3, 2016 – February 26, 2017 – Boston
The
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston Street, presents Shakespeare’s
Here and Everywhere.
William Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies and histories were
situated in a number of locations throughout Europe, Asia and Africa.
These plays spanned the centuries, from classical times to the
Renaissance. In this exhibition of forty maps, images and
three-dimensional objects, visitors will learn about Britain in the
time of Shakespeare, discover centuries-old maps illustrating where
the plays were set, and understand the symbolic role that geography
held to the dramas. Kronborg Castle in Denmark, known as Elsinore in
Hamlet, will be highlighted in the exhibition. A 1629 Dutch map
depicting the Danish Kingdom, along with a vignette illustrating
“Elsenor,” will be on display. Complementing this map
will be an original print of “Cronenburg” from Samuel von
Pufendorf’s 1696 historical atlas.
November 15, 2016 - February 26, 2017 – Paris
Ocean
Explorers From Sindbad to Marco Polo is an exhibition at Institut
du Monde Arabe, 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard. The exhibition
is organised in collaboration with the MuCEM, the Museum of European
and Mediterranean Civilizations in Marseilles. Guided by the
legendary Sindbad the Sailor, the geographer al-Idrīsī, the
explorer Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, and many others, set
sail—with the Arabs, the masters of the seas, and the great
European sailors who sailed on their maritime routes—on a
wonderful voyage of discovery extending from the Mediterranean to the
Indian Ocean. From the beginning of Islam to the dawn of the
seventeenth century, it is a maritime adventure that visitors can see
and experience in an exceptional immersive itinerary that combines
sound effects, images, and optical devices. Sailors had to learn to
master the sea before setting sail. In a relaxed atmosphere, under
the guidance of the sailor and cartographer Ibn Majid (1432–1500),
visitors will learn about the art of sailing, see wonderful
navigation instruments, and discover the development of vessels, in a
journey of discovery complemented by many models. Thanks to the
development of cartography, sailors were able to better master the
seas, as attested by the author of a famous map of the world: the
geographer al-Idrīsī (circa 1100–1165), against a
backdrop of medieval Latin and Arab cosmographies, maps and
portolanos, world maps, and other astronomical treatises, and beneath
a didactic and interactive sky. The exhibition moves to the MuCEM, in
Marseille, between 7 June and 9 October 2017.
January 19, 2017 – February 28, 2017 – Milan
Visual
geography. Imago Italiae can
be seen at Biblioteca Sormani, Corso di Porta Vittoria,
6. The geo-pictorial maps of the Agostini family are displayed on the
Monumental staircase of the Grechetto room. Admission free. Closed
Sundays and holidays. Additional information at telephone 02 884
63372, or C.salagrechetto(at)comune.milano.it.
October 16, 2015 – March 2017 – Wellington
A
new exhibition showcasing the history of maps in New Zealand can be
seen at the National Library. It tells the story of this country’s
maps – from the surprisingly accurate charts of Captain Cook’s
18th Century voyages to the GPS technology used today. The
exhibition, Unfolding the Map is a collaboration between the
National Library, Land Information New Zealand, Eagle Technology and
Archives New Zealand. The maps and charts on display highlight the
variety and richness of resources held by New Zealand libraries and
explain the concepts of cartography. They are supplemented by a
selection of tools used by map-makers. A hand-coloured, annotated map
of Gallipoli is featured in the exhibition. The map was issued to the
commanding officer of the New Zealand and Australian Division and
taken ashore by Major General Alexander Godley on 25 April 1915. Its
lack of detail, however, made it little use in the campaign. Other
treasures include the first map of New Zealand drawn by Māori,
whimsical tourism maps from the 1920s and a 1938 trampers’ map
of the Tararua ranges.
June 2, 2016 – March 2017 - Telluride, Colorado
Treasure
Maps: Cartography of the American Southwest can be seen in
Weatherford Gallery, Telluride Historical Museum, 201 W. Gregory Ave.
For centuries, nations from around the world coveted the treasures of
the American Southwest. Expeditions and cartographers were sent to
find and map legendary lakes of gold, trade routes, settlements, and
eventually mining claims. Through a series of rare historic maps
dating from as far back as the 16th century, the Telluride Historical
Museum’s new exhibit highlights the mapmakers who charted this
region and the riches, real and imagined, that it contained.
March 2017 - Menasha, Wisconsin
The
Elisha D. Smith Public Library, 440 First Street, will exhibit maps
from the collection of local historian Tom Sutter. Wisconsin
Maps thru the Years is featured on the library’s art wall
during March. The one-of-a-kind collection illustrates the history
and geography of Wisconsin with 14 Wisconsin maps dating from 1703 to
1989. The 1703 map was drawn by a French man, Baron Lahontan, who
explored this part of New France in 1688. The 1989 map shows the
vegetation cover of the state. In between those two are early maps
depicting the Northwest Territory—the lands north and west of
the Ohio River, out of which would be carved the states of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and finally, Wisconsin.
November 4, 2016 - March 1, 2017 – London
Have you
ever tried disappearing off the map? It’s harder than you think
to be invisible nowadays. That’s because 100 years of mapping
technology – from the original sketch of today’s London
Underground to the satellite imagery of the 1990s – has
monitored and shaped the society we live in. Two World Wars. The moon
landings. The digital revolution. The exhibition Maps and the 20th
Century: Drawing the Line looks at the important role maps played
during the 20th century. It sheds new light on familiar events and
spans conflicts, creativity, the ocean floor and even outer space. It
includes exhibits ranging from the first map of the Hundred Acre Wood
to secret spy maps, via the New York Subway. And, as technology
advances further than we ever imagined possible, it questions what it
really means to have your every move mapped. Exhibition can be seen
at the PACCAR Gallery, British Library, 96 Euston Road.
September 24, 2016 – March 11, 2017 - Abilene,
Texas
Explore the history of Texas as a unique blend of
Spanish, Mexican and Anglo-American traditions through Spanish
Texas: Legend & Legacy exhibitions at The Grace Museum, 102
Cypress St. Trace Spanish exploration and colonization (1527-1690) of
Texas through early maps, art and artifacts on loan from prestigious
museums and collections from across the state. The Bryan Museum in
Galveston loaned a number of pieces to the Spanish Texas
exhibit, including maps of the area, some by the Spanish, others by
the French.
September 29, 2016 – March 11, 2017 - Portland, Maine
The
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, 314
Forest Avenue, will have an exhibition The Northwest Passage:
Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities.
January 22, 2017 - March 29, 2017 - Fullerton,
California
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, many
believed California was a remote island with plenty of gold,
free-loving amazons and strange beasts. A new exhibit at California
State University Fullerton's Pollak Library features a selection of
maps from the Roy V. Boswell Collection for the History of
Cartography, one of the University's special collections. The
exhibit, California As an Island and Worlds That Never Were,
will be on display in the Salz-Pollak Atrium Gallery, Pollak Library,
800 North State College Blvd.
July 22, 2016 - April 2, 2017 – Edinburgh
How much
do we really know about maps? You are here! is a National
Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, exhibition that challenges our
acceptance of maps. It poses questions about how they are made and
how we understand them. Drawn from our collection of more than two
million maps and atlases, each map in the exhibition shows the answer
to some or all of those questions. The maps on display zoom out from
the Library itself to the whole world in the shape of the Blaeu Atlas
— 'the most beautiful atlas ever made'. They also include one
of the finest plans of Edinburgh and the first map of Scotland, as
well as more utilitarian railway, fishing and schoolroom maps.
Together they demonstrate the versatility and beauty of maps and the
skill of the cartographers who created them.
February 15, 2017 – April 13, 2017 - New York
300+years
of Lithuania on Maps, 1552-1862 features about 20 maps of
historic Lithuania from the collection of Andrew Kapochunas.
Exhibition can be seen Monday 9.00 am - 12.00 pm and 1.00 pm - 4.00
pm; Tuesday - Thursday 9.00 am - 12.00 pm by appointment only at the
Consulate General of Lithuania, 420 5th Ave #304. Phone (212)
354-7840 or email kons.niujorkas(at)urm.lt for appointment.
December 14, 2016 – April 19, 2017 – Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Where Disaster Strikes: Modern Space and the
Visualization of Destruction is
the new exhibition which can be seen in Map Gallery,
Pusey Hall, Harvard University. Fires, volcanoes, floods, bombs,
droughts, (and monsters). We can easily understand their effect on
the built and natural landscape because they happen so suddenly. The
Harvard Map Collection invites you to see 350 years of maps that
visualize the sudden devastation of disaster, from the London Fire of
1666 through the bombing of Hiroshima to the cities we see destroyed
in our movies. Through these maps, we can see how our modern spaces
define what counts as disaster and how disasters continue to shape
the spaces around us.
November 9, 2016 - April 23, 2017 -New York
If you love
maps and urban development, the exhibit Mastering the Metropolis
New York and Zoning, 1916-2016 at the Museum of the City of New
York, 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St., is the place for you. Zoning is
the primary tool of development for New York City and much of the
built environment – the nature of neighborhoods and the shape
of buildings are often dictated by the demands of the zoning code. As
we previously detailed, the history of zoning is clearly visible in
how the New York City skyline evolved. Timed with the 100th
anniversary of the 1916 Zoning Resolution, the country’s first
comprehensive zoning ordinance, the exhibit shows how the zoning code
is structured, how it impacts a building’s height, width, even
shape. It shows how zoning organizes the different usage of land, and
how that has changed over time. One of the many maps in the exhibit,
created by the Merchants’ Association of New York in 1922
utilizing 1919 Census data shows the diversity of manufacturing
industries in New York City at turn of the Roaring ’20s.
March 1, 2017 - April 30, 2017 - Birmingham, Alabama
The
Birmingham Public Library’s downtown location has a new exhibit
that will whet the appetites of Alabama history buffs and map lovers.
Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in Maps can be seen in the
Fourth Floor Gallery of the Central Library, 2100 Park Place. Timed
to coincide with Alabama’s upcoming bicentennial, this exhibit
tells the history of our state by introducing patrons to maps that
depict the state’s development from the earliest days of
exploration through the present day. Funded partly by a grant from
the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the exhibit explores 450 years of
Alabama history. It includes over 50 maps that have been carefully
selected from the library’s world class cartography collection.
February 9, 2017 - May 19, 2017 –
Philadelphia
Globalization is no recent phenomenon. People,
ideas, and objects have always been on the move, encountering and
changing one another as a result. Expanding Earth / Travel,
Encounter, and Exchange presents some of the textual and material
residues of these encounters and travels, characteristic of past as
well as present human activity and curiosity. Focusing on the years
1400 to 1800, the exhibit examines and looks beyond familiar
Eurocentric ideas of exploration, conquest, and "discovery."
Using manuscripts, printed books, drawings, maps, and artifacts,
Expanding Earth highlights the movements of peoples, ideas,
and goods across the world in their own words and in material
objects. Among the maps is one drawn on worn fig-bark paper, marking
the land boundaries in an ancient Mexican village. The map is part of
a group of documents, known collectively as Techialoyan manuscripts,
created in the 1700s by indigenous people as evidence for land
ownership court cases against the Spanish government. Also displayed
is the first map of Africa from 1508. Exhibition can be seen in
Goldstein Family Gallery, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare
Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor,
University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street. Gallery hours:
Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Wednesday, 10am-8pm. For further information
215.898.7088 or rbml(at)pobox.upenn.edu.
February 23, 2017 - May 19, 2017 - Tempe, Arizona
A new
exhibit in Hayden Library, Greater Arizona: Mapping Place, History
and Transformation, features historical maps that belong to the
Simon Burrow Collection at Arizona State University's School of
Transborder Studies and highlights the different ways the region of
Arizona has been conceptualized in a global context. As geographical
diagrams, official documents, political tools, educational implements
and records of the past, maps offer a rich and complex understanding
of the past and the present. In this exhibit, Arizona is not marked
as we know and understand it today; rather, the region of Arizona is
represented through numerous developments and various manifestations
over time since the 16th century.
July 6, 2016 - May 20, 2017 - La Jolla, California
The
pictures that compose the current exhibition at the Map & Atlas
Museum of La Jolla, 7825 Fay Ave., Suite LL-A, could be found in the
London Underground of the early 20th century, the pocket of a tourist
in the Coachella Valley in the 1950s, or the walls of a French
airport 50 years ago. The Art Meets Maps exhibit features
pictographic maps — pieces that mix cartography, art and
illustration. “As opposed to a regular map or a chart, which is
meant to be a working document, a pictorial map, for example, shows
London in a graphic sort of way, providing information to the person
about the underground, but the great difference is the illustration
added to the cartography,” said Richard Cloward, the map
museum’s director.
March 1, 2017 - May 21, 2017 - Beatrice, Nebraska
The
Beatrice Public Library, 100 N 16th St., is displaying its historic
Nebraska map collection in conjunction with the art exhibit “Native
American Presence on the Missouri”. This is located in the
Heritage Room on the same level as the art exhibit area. It includes
maps from 1855 to 1905. They were collected to show the development
of Gage County including the boundaries of the Otoe reservation, the
location of the original Clay County between Gage and Lancaster
Counties as well as the sites of early settlements dating from the
establishment of Nebraska Territory in 1854.
February 13, 2017 - May 22, 2017 – Minneapolis
The
exhibit Engraved in Copper: The Art of Mapping Minnesota
highlights unique engraved copper plates used to print topographic
maps of Minnesota in the early 1900s, surveying and mapmaking
techniques, and government documents related to the process. The
plates are part of the evolution of government mapping and the
history of the United States Geological Survey, from early mapping
efforts to Geographic Information Systems. The exhibit can be seen in
Elmer L. Andersen Library Gallery, University of Minnesota Libraries,
21st Avenue South.
March 15, 2017 – May 31, 2017 – Manila
The
Philippine Map Collectors Society (PHIMCOS) is arranging and
sponsoring an exhibition of rare historical maps and charts of the
Philippine archipelago and surrounding seas from c1540 to c1900 in
the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd. Entitled
Mapping the Philippine Seas, the exhibition showcases 166
original maps and sea charts from the private collections of PHIMCOS
members and a reproduction of the Selden Map courtesy of the Bodleian
Library in Oxford. The collection also includes significant original
maps where the names “Filipina” and “Las
Philippinas” first appeared, and many more made by well-known
cartographers such as Robert Dudley, Alexander Dalrymple and
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, and others are from the Spanish, British and
French Admiralties. The theme of the exhibition is the use of
cartography to explain the historical importance of the location of
the Philippines at the centre of eastern and southeast-Asian trade
routes, the discovery and use of those maritime trade routes by
European explorers, colonists and traders, the search for new, faster
and safer sea passages around and through the Philippine archipelago,
and the use of scientific hydrography to improve the charts and
thereby the safety of seafarers. There will be a series of lectures,
starting at 10:30 AM, accompanying the exhibition as follows:
18
March - DENR Undersecretary Arturo T. Valdez: The Voyage of the
Balangay
25 March - Jay L Batongbacal, PhD, Associate
Professor, University of the Philippines (UP), College of Law and
Director, UP Institute for Maritime Affairs & Law of the Sea:
Ancient Maps and Modern Mindanao: Memories and Boundaries
01
April - Carlos Madrid, PhD - Director Instituto Cervantes, Manila:
The Dirección de Hidrografía in the Philippines
22
April - Speaker: to be announced
29 April - Stephen Davies,
Honorary Fellow of the University of Hong Kong’s Institute for
the Humanities and Social Sciences, and former Museum Director of the
Hong Kong Maritime Museum: Ways of Seeing: The Linked Worlds of
Maritime Trade and the Making of the Selden Map
27
May - John L. Silva, executive director of Ortigas Foundation
Library: The Enchantment in Maps
April 3, 2017 - June 2, 2017 – Denver
The Denver
Public Library’s Western History Department at 10 W. Fourteenth
Avenue will have an exhibit of original and extraordinary maps on the
fifth floor, which illustrate the power of Art in Maps. Maps
represent an attempt to draw an image of a place on paper. From the
earliest times, artistic components have been used to embellish these
cartographic images, not only to enhance their appeal, but also to
convey critical ideas. This exhibit examines how the cartographic and
artistic elements have been brought together in different ages and
cultures.
May 20, 2016 – June 4, 2017 - Franeker, The
Netherlands
The Planetarium Eise Eisinga, Eise Eisingastraat
3, presents Varen op de sterren [Boating on the stars]. The
exhibition include charts, sextants, globes and gyroscopes from the
collection of Museum Boerhaave. The exhibition provides insight into
the navigation capabilities of then and now. Dutch dominated in the
seventeenth century to trade with large parts of Asia. How could they
sail there? And how they were able to determine their position? How
is it today? With a smartphone? Visions of navigation provide insight
into the ways in which science determines the course.
April 15, 2017 – June 23, 2017 – London
For
the first time ever, Tower Hamlets Local History Library &
Archives, 277 Bancroft Road, are exhibiting a large selection of our
rare or unique historic maps of the Tower Hamlets area. Beginning in
1610 with Norden's map of the County of Middlesex (of which
present-day Tower Hamlets formed a part), Mapping the Hamlets
illustrates how maps and plans have been used to record almost
everything - streets and landmarks still recognisable today, as well
as aspects of East End life that have now disappeared from the
contemporary landscape, whether ancient administrative boundaries,
tram routes or air-raid shelters. Also included are maps devised for
sociological purposes, including the Booth 'poverty' maps and others
which attempted to record the presence of diasporic communities. Some
maps are printed but many are beautifully hand-drawn and coloured.
March 21, 2017 - June 25, 2017 - New York
The twelve
Barberini Life of Christ tapestries, produced in Rome between 1644
and 1656, are priceless treasures and were among the first gifts
acquired by the The Cathedral Church Of Saint John The Divine, 1047
Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street. The tapestries helped cement the
Cathedral's reputation as a home for world-class art for centuries to
come. The twelve-panel tapestry series was designed by the baroque
master Giovanni Francesco Romanelli and woven by handpicked weavers
for Francesco Barberini, the nephew of Pope Urban VIII, in his own
tapestry workshop – itself a rarity at a time when most
tapestries were made elsewhere in Europe. This series was installed
at the Vatican and the Barberini family palaces before coming to
America at the end of the nineteenth century. Over fifteen and a half
feet tall and ranging from twelve to nineteen feet in length, these
heroically scaled panels, in vibrant colors, never forget the
intimate and homey details that make the divine human and the past
present. Recently they underwent extensive restoration. The Barberini
Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome feature ten of the
tapestries including one which is a map of the Holy Land.
January 2017 - June 30, 2017 – Honolulu
Research
carried out by undergraduate students from the University of Hawaii
more than 80 years ago will be on display in Mapping the Territory
in University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library’s Archives,
Moir Reading Room, 2550 McCarthy mall. Working with professional
social scientists, undergraduate student researchers shed light on
social conditions in Hawaiʻi in the Territorial era. The maps,
papers and documents richly detail life in the Territory from a
unique point of view—students at the University of Hawaii. The
maps and papers were submitted as assignments. The community studies
illustrate a street, neighborhood, or town; other maps focus on a
specific social problem or issue. All the maps, in some way or
another, deal with race and ethnic diversity, and all were meant to
measure and document how local communities evolved during an
important era of social change.
October 16, 2016 - Spring 2017 - Riverhead, New York
Mapping
Suffolk County: A Complementary Ten Towns Exhibit features an
assortment of historic maps of Suffolk County, from the 1700s to the
1900s. Exhibition can be seen in Gish Gallery, Suffolk County
Historical Society, 300 West Main Street.
May 1, 2017 – August 4, 2017 - Boulder, Colorado
Jerry
Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library, 2200 Colorado Avenue,
has an exhibition Native American Geographies. The exhibition
features maps from University of Colorado Boulder’s collection
and works on paper by Melanie Yazzie from the Department of Art and
Art History. The exhibit highlights art and maps that address the
history of indigenous peoples' lands in the U.S., focusing on the
difficulty of accurately mapping lands that were coercively
transferred over time.
July 7, 2017 - August 25, 2017 – Moscow
We are
used to thinking of Moscow as a city of stone and concrete, but for
most of its 870-year history, it was a city of wood. It is easy to
imagine the huge hazard represented by fire in the city in medieval
times – how often must parts of old Moscow been consumed by
flames after a minor accident? As a new exhibition at the Museum of
Moscow, Zubovskiy b-r, 2, confirms, this was indeed the case. Fire.
Invasion of the Tatars. Fire. Time of Troubles. Fire. Fire, reads
a timeline of Moscow history printed around the museum’s spiral
staircase. The exhibit focuses on issues of city planning and
administration through maps, lithographs and travel diaries that
reveal a pragmatism not usually associated with Moscow or Russia in
general.
July 6, 2017 - September 2, 2017 - Mattapoisett,
Massachusetts
This year’s summer exhibit, at
Mattapoisett Historical Society Museum,5 Church Street, is all about
maps. As functional, yet decorative items, maps can serve many
different purposes. Mapping Mattapoisett: Tracing Our Place In the
World explores the museum’s extensive collection of maps
and charts, most of which have never been displayed. The exhibit will
have maps of all types on show, from Clifford Ashley’s “A
Chart of the Whale Coast of New England” c. 1810 down to small,
hand-drawn sketches of old Mattapoisett street plans and landmarks.
Come visit to see how Mattapoisett has been represented through
cartography! Museum is open Thursdays 10am–4pm, Fridays 1–4pm,
and Saturdays 1–4pm.
August 15, 2017 - September 7, 2017 - Fayetteville,
Arkansas
From the beautiful to the banal, modest to elaborate,
maps have provided Arkansans with a vehicle for more than just
understanding the lay of the land. An exhibit at University Libraries
titled Mapping the Natural State: Arkansans Making and Using Maps
features maps of Arkansas, as well as maps drawn by Arkansans. These
varied examples of cartography, from before Arkansas statehood until
late in the 20th century, served different purposes for the diverse
individuals who drew or owned them. The exhibit will be on display in
the Helen Robson Walton Reading Room in Mullins Library, University
of Arkansas, 365 McIlroy Ave.
July 9, 2017 - September 10, 2017 - Belo Horizonte,
Brazil
Mapping
and Delineating Minas Gerais is
the thematic axis, Minas Gerais is the space, and the seventeenth to
nineteenth centuries form the temporal focus which link the maps
collected for this exposition at Museu Mineiro,
Av. João Pinheiro, 342. This rich cartographic collection
offers a view to the first consistent advance of Luso-Brazilians
towards the interior of Brazil, reaching the Gerais in the central
plateau.
July 11, 2017 - September 10, 2017 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
O
Desafio Cartográfico
do novo / Olhares Sobre O Globo O Brasil [The Cartographic Challenge
of the New / Looking Over the Globe and Brazil] can
be seen in Minas Tenis Clube Cultural Center, 2244 Rua da Bahia. Our
journey begins with the maps revealing the incredible discoveries of
distant lands made by the Portuguese all over the world. Numerous
maps, books, engravings, and reports are brought together here for
the first time. The exhibit moves into the New World, to the
Americas, before focusing on early maps of Brazil.
March 4, 2017 – September 24, 2017 – Boston
The
new gallery exhibition is entitled Regions and Seasons: Mapping
Climate through History. It will be on display in the Leventhal
Map Center Gallery at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St.
Regions and Seasons features over sixty maps and
three-dimensional objects related to the capturing of weather data
and depiction of the mapping of climate zones, wind direction, ocean
currents and more, dating from the 15th century to present day.
Visitors will learn about climate and weather-related imagery found
on maps throughout history, starting with the “Venti”,
the wind personas of the classical era, long thought by sailors to
direct the seas, and “Horae”, the goddesses of the
seasons who were thought to determine the natural order of events.
Next, throughout the age of Enlightenment, cartographers began to
depict recurring weather events as well as seasonal trade winds, when
efficient navigation was critical to the success of the frequent
expeditions from England to Asia. As science moved to the forefront
during this era, the increased focus on data capture is reflected in
the more complex maps of the time and beyond, representing vast
amounts of statistical information to further public understanding of
the varying climate patterns of different geographic locations. The
exhibition will also explore the challenges posed by changing weather
patterns and will look at Boston’s evolution as a coastal city
throughout history, featuring depictions of the city before and after
the completion of The Back Bay project and the unique climate risks
faced by iconic parts of the city as a result of sea-level rise.
May 23, 2017 - September 27, 2017 - Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Manuscript Maps: Hand-Drawn Treasures of the
Harvard Map Collection is on display at Posey Library, Harvard
Map Collection, Harvard Yard. Whether made in surveying land,
fighting wars, learning geography, planning cities, preparing for
publication, or presenting beautiful maps to the public, manuscript
maps all emphasize the process by which they came into being and the
individual stories they carry with them. This exhibition highlights
the process of mapmaking by looking at maps drawn by hand.
May 20, 2017 - September 29, 2017 - Niskayuna, New York
Parts
But Little Known: Maps of the Adirondacks from 1556 is a
fascinating look at growing awareness of the region and what the
mapmakers thought about the potential of the Adirondacks. It
highlights the rich collections of the Adirondack Research Library,
from Verplanck Colvin’s reports accompanied by illustrations
documenting the trials of the surveying crews, to more than a
century’s worth of maps meant to advertise the region to
tourists. The exhibition is curated by Washington Map Society member
Cal Welch, and can be seen at Kelly Adirondack Center of Union
College, 897 St. David’s Lane. Open Mondays and Tuesdays 10 am
to 4 pm, Thursdays 1 to 4 pm, and by appointment. For more
information call Margie Amodeo at 518.280.5951.
August 5, 2017 - September 30, 2017- Hagerstown, Maryland
More
than 250 years ago, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began mapping
out and marking the now-iconic boundary that bears their names.
Setting Boundaries: 250 Years of the Mason – Dixon Line
can be seen in the Washington County Historical Society, Miller House
Exhibit Room, 135 W. Washington St. For over 250 years, the
Mason-Dixon Line has been the border between Maryland and
Pennsylvania. But why does it exist? Learn about the history of the
Mason-Dixon Line and how it came to be in a new exhibit. Open
Wednesday-Friday 1-4 pm and Saturday 9 am–4 pm.
January 27, 2017 – October 2017 - Salt Lake City
Maps
serve many purposes. They represent physical geographies, recording
landmarks, routes, and boundaries. But they also reflect varying
perceptions, imaginations, values, and aspirations. This is certainly
true of the maps presented in Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare
Maps. Over five centuries, empires and explorers along with
printers and publishers worked first to trace the outline of a
continent that was new to Europeans and then, eventually, to fill in
its vast middle. These maps show the steady increase of geographic
knowledge of the Americas, but they also demonstrate the economic and
political interests that produced that knowledge and the individuals
who benefited from it. They hint at what map makers and their
sponsors determined was worth documenting, identifying, and, in some
cases, possessing. They often erase, obscure, and distort. Put
simply: maps are more than cartographic representations of known or
imagined physical features on the landscape. As you examine these
maps, try to determine the purposes for which they were made and any
mistruths, omissions, and distortions they may contain. The maps are
displayed in the Utah Capitol Building, 350 N State St. Maps in the
exhibition are primarily owned by Salt Lake City businessman Steven
Boulay, with contributions from the Utah State Historical Society,
American West Center at the University of Utah, L. Tom Perry Special
Collections at Brigham Young University, and LDS Church History
Department.
June 7, 2017 – October 9, 2017 – Marseille
Ocean
Explorers From Sindbad to Marco Polo is an exhibition at MuCEM,
the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, 7 Promenade
Robert Laffont. Guided by the legendary Sindbad the Sailor, the
geographer al-Idrīsī, the explorer Ibn Baṭṭūṭah,
and many others, set sail—with the Arabs, the masters of the
seas, and the great European sailors who sailed on their maritime
routes—on a wonderful voyage of discovery extending from the
Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. From the beginning of Islam to the
dawn of the seventeenth century, it is a maritime adventure that
visitors can see and experience in an exceptional immersive itinerary
that combines sound effects, images, and optical devices. Sailors had
to learn to master the sea before setting sail. In a relaxed
atmosphere, under the guidance of the sailor and cartographer Ibn
Majid (1432–1500), visitors will learn about the art of
sailing, see wonderful navigation instruments, and discover the
development of vessels, in a journey of discovery complemented by
many models. Thanks to the development of cartography, sailors were
able to better master the seas, as attested by the author of a famous
map of the world: the geographer al-Idrīsī (circa
1100–1165), against a backdrop of medieval Latin and Arab
cosmographies, maps and portolanos, world maps, and other
astronomical treatises, and beneath a didactic and interactive sky.
February 10, 2017 - October 10, 2017 - College Station,
Texas
Authors who create elaborate fantasy worlds, like J.R.R.
Tolkien’s Middle-earth and George R.R. Martin’s Westeros,
often provide maps to guide readers through these imaginary lands.
Texas A&M University’s Cushing Memorial Library and
Archives, 400 Spence St, invites visitors to explore fantasy maps
with the new exhibit, Worlds Imagined: The Maps of Imaginary
Places Collection.
August 4, 2017 – October 20, 2017 - Homer, Alaska
The
Pratt Museum, 3779 Bartlett St., presents Cartography, an
exhibit exploring maps, wayfinding, and related artworks from the
museum collections, along with recent geospatial and interactive
products of Kachemak Bay.
April 28, 2017 – October 27, 2017 – Ann Arbor,
Michigan
This exhibit,
Mapping in the Enlightenment:
Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere,
in the William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Room, uses
examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of
creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century.
Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make more accurate
maps, encouraged the growth of map collecting and map use by men and
women in all social classes, and expanded the role of maps in
administration and decision-making throughout Europe and her overseas
colonies. Exhibition is open only on Fridays from 10am to 4pm.
March 30, 2017 – October 28, 2017 - Portland,
Maine
Americans relied on print images to understand World War
I before and after the US entered the war in March 1917. Their
understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps
and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war’s
battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western
Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces.
The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education,
314 Forest Avenue, exhibition To Conquer or Submit? America Views
the Great War commemorates and explores American participation in
the Great War—the “War to End All Wars”—with
a sample of informative and propagandistic posters, maps, and atlases
from the collections of USM’s Osher Map Library and Smith
Center for Cartographic Education.
September 2017 - October 30, 2017 - Nantucket,
Massachusetts
The Nantucket
Historical Association presents Out of the Box:
Unpacking Nantucket Stories, a new major exhibition exploring the
stories of Nantucket’s people over four centuries with more
than 80 artifacts from the NHA’s collections that have rarely,
if ever, been displayed before. The exhibition is on view in the
McCausland Gallery at the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. Visitors
will learn about life at home on Nantucket and at sea, see the island
at work and at play and encounter rare maps. Key maps from the
association’s collection are on display, including a copy of
John Tupper’s map from 1781 (in which Nantucket Harbor looks
like the silhouette of a whale) and Clarence and Anne Lundquist’s
1969 hooked rug map of the island.
November 6-15, 2017- Bratislava, Slovakia
An exhibition
of maps that represents some key moments in the Armenian history can
be seen at the Ministry of Culture, Nam. SNP No. 33. It is dedicated
to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations
between Armenia and Slovakia. In particular, maps created by ancient
Greek-Roman geographers as well as medieval Islamic, Latin and
Western European cartographers and geographers are currently on
display.
September 21, 2017 - November 17, 2017 – Helsinki
In
celebration of the centenary of Finnish independence in 2017, the
exhibit Finland in ancient cartography will offer a journey
through ancient cartographic history and the representation of
Finland through the centuries. The exhibition can be seen at the
National Archives of Helsinki, Rauhankatu 17. The exhibition will
underline the common history of the European countries and the
developments of those nations and people. Over 40 maps, dated from
the XVI to the first decade of the XX century, from the Gianni
Brandozzi Collection in Ascoli Piceno and the National Archives of
Finland will be exhibited.
September 16, 2017 – November 26, 2017 - Leiden
This
autumn Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Rapenburg 19, will present
highlights from the Leiden University Library Collection in the
exhibition Mapping Japan. With its travel logs, illustrated
atlases, colourful maps, travel routes, etches and a host of other
historic documents, this exhibition will take you on a journey to the
Japan of the 18th and 19th centuries.
May 5, 2017 – November 30, 2017 – Prague
This
year is the 200th anniversary of the birth and the 130th anniversary
of the death of Jan Felkel, the founder and owner of a globe factory
in Roztoky by Prague. The Geographical section of the Faculty of
Science of Charles University and Museum of Central Bohemia in
Roztoky by Prague presents an exhibition J.
Felkl & Son, Globe Factory in
the foyer of the Map Collection of the Faculty of Science of Charles
University, Albertov 6. Open Monday - Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
(admission free). The exhibition presents the
family firm J. Felkl and Son, which had been active in Roztoky by
Prague for nearly 100 years. This, the largest Austro-Hungarian globe
company, produced the best globes in 8 sizes, 10 versions and 17
languages. They also printed the first globes in national languages,
not only in Czech but also in Hungarian and Polish. They were holders
of two patents for special folding globes. They also offered special
instruments such as telluria, sololunaria, planetaria and armillary
spheres. They exported both to Europe and overseas. Their globes were
appreciated in many of the world´s fairs (Paris, Vienna) and
national exhibitions (Prague). Additional information from exhibit
curator Eva Novotná: novotn48(at)natur.cuni.cz
September 11, 2017 - November 2017 - London, Ontario
The
Map and Data Centre, located on the ground floor of the D.B. Weldon
Library, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St; welcomes
you to our new display in the International Room called Celebrating
Canada 150: a selection of maps on display to celebrate Canada’s
Sesquicentennial.
June 28, 2017 - December 10, 2017 - Baker City, Oregon
Finding
Fremont: Pathfinder of the West will
be on display at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive
Center. Discover the story of John C. Fremont and his expedition
through Central Oregon in 1843-44. Fremont’s mapping
expeditions provided maps for emigrants on The Oregon Trail and
beyond, launching him to fame, fortune, and a bid for president of
the United States of America. Developed by the Deschutes Historical
Museum in partnership with the Nevada State Museum in Carson City.
Included in the exhibition is the 170-year-old, seven-section
topographical map of the Oregon Trail which was developed by
cartographer Charles Preuss, who accompanied frontiersman John C.
Fremont and his wife Jesse Benton on an expedition along the route of
the Oregon Trail from Missouri to Oregon in 1843.
November 14, 2017 - December 15, 2017 - Dyersburg,
Tennessee
Dyersburg State Community College is excited to host
an exhibit of 19 interesting and rare maps of the state of Tennessee,
the Tennessee River Valley, and the southeastern U.S. The exhibit is
part of the vast collection of unique and collectible maps and globes
owned by world-renowned expert Murray Hudson, and can be seen in
inside the College’s Learning Resource Center, 1510 Lake Rd.
Hudson is the owner of Murray Hudson’s Antiquarian Maps,
Globes, Books & Prints in Halls, Tennessee.
September 17, 2017 - December 17, 2017 - Sint-Niklaas,
Belgium
The Mercatormuseum, Grote Markt 1, has an exhibition
Flemish-Dutch atlas cartography 1500 - 1700: Part II Europe
revisited. Travel through ancient Europe with 104
maps produced by the Flemish and Dutch mapmakers. This
beautiful exhibition, curated by Stanislas De Peuter, opens with some
title pages and the most important continental maps. Using maps, you
can wander around in late medieval cities like Toledo, Lisbon,
Avignon, Cambridge or Budapest. Somewhat surprising are the many maps
of Europe from ancient times and maps of the Holy Land. Several
maritime maps are displayed. A catalogue, in Dutch, of more than 100
pages (with a separate binder with color reproduction of 40 maps) is
for sale at the museum.
June 16, 2017 - December 30, 2017 - Lyme, New Hampshire
The
first exhibit at the new location of the Lyme Historians’ Lyme
History Museum, 15 Main Street, came about almost accidentally.
“Moving made us find out what we had,” said Jane Fant, a
board member and past president of the Lyme Historians. It turns out
that one of the things they had were maps. Dozens of maps. The
discovered trove forms the relocated museum’s inaugural
exhibit, Map Mania: Maps of Lyme and Grafton County Over the
Years. Visitors to the exhibit will be able to check out a
variety of maps, including various property surveys. The Museum is
open on Wednesdays, 4-6 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon. Admission
is free. For more information, call 603-795-2508 or email
lymehistorians(at)gmail.com.
January 9, 2017 - December 31, 2017 - Oxford, Mississippi
Every
year is a birthday year, but this one is special. The state of
Mississippi will turn 200 years old on Dec. 10. As 2017 progresses,
bicentennial events will happen throughout the state, which was the
20th to join the United States of America. The J.D. Williams Library
at the University of Mississippi has an exhibition Mississippi:
200 Years of Statehood. A team of curators filled cases in the
library’s Faulkner Room with early documents, maps, sheet
music, photographs, textbooks, political signs, recordings and much
more. Maps include a 1763 map by Johann Baptist Homann, imperial
cartographer to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Far more accurate maps
from before and after the Civil War document the state’s
evolution as big counties were broken up into smaller ones. The
Department of Archives and Special Collections at J.D. Williams
Library is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, except for
university holidays.
September 9, 2017 - December 31, 2017 - Los Lunas, New
Mexico
The Los Lunas
Museum of Heritage and Arts, 251 Main St. SE, new exhibition Historic
Maps of the Southwest includes maps on loan from the Albuquerque
Museum and a large Military Reconnaissance of the Arkansas, Rio Del
Norte and Rio Gila. A special traveling exhibit from Humanities,
Texas, “Crossroads of Empire: Early Printed Maps of the
American Southwest” from the years 1512 to 1873 will only be on
display for the first month. Most of the maps in the exhibit are
originals of the Spanish colonial era, the Mexican era, the New
Mexico Territorial period and the early statehood period, such as the
1926 and 1928 automobile trail maps. One of the maps of New Mexico on
exhibit comes from the World Gazette of 1917. The Los Lunas Museum of
Heritage and Arts is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through
Saturday, and closed on Sunday and Monday. For more information call
352-7720.
February 10, 2017 – December 2017 - Hinsdale,
Illinois
Mapping Hinsdale is a fairly comprehensive
cartographic display of the approximately 4.6 square miles which
comprise the village. The Hinsdale Historical Society has quite a
range of maps including ones from 1870, a few years before Hinsdale
was officially incorporated. They show how the village's earliest
developers, men who were real estate investors and speculators,
planned the village. A plat map from 1870 shows the homes and lots
for sale. It also shows how the various areas of Hinsdale were
subdivided and labeled for the investors who purchased those plots.
Another is a bird's eye view of Hinsdale drawn in the 1880s in color
from above the village and looking north and east over Main Street —
now Garfield — past the railroad tracks and over what would
later be the hospital. There are a few Hinsdale zoning maps, which
show which parts of Hinsdale were commercial and residential, and the
viewer can see how that map has literally changed over time. Also
there are street maps, topographic maps,and a large Sanborn map.
Mapping Hinsdale is on display in an upstairs bedroom of the
Hinsdale History Museum, 15 South Clay Street, which is open to the
public from noon to 4 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays or by
appointment. For more information, email info(at)HinsdaleHistory.org
or call 630-789-2600.
October 20, 2017 - December 2017 - Hamilton, Bermuda
Early
Bermuda maps have long been favourites of collectors worldwide, from
vague and dangerous-looking first-encounter representations to lush,
detail-packed manuscript renditions. But over the centuries, hundreds
of remarkable maps of all types have been made of the island. Now
"Bermuda Maps," a new book from National Museum of Bermuda
Press, tells the full and fascinating story of Bermuda’s
cartographic history. Written by Bermudian Jonathan Land Evans, and
edited and produced by Brimstone Media, “Bermuda Maps” is
the product of the author’s lifetime of collecting and
analysing these depictions. In conjunction with the book, an exhibit
showcasing a selection of maps from the National Museum’s Nancy
& Brian Dupperreault will display at the Gallery, Chubb Building,
17 Woodbourne Avenue, until the end of the year. The Gallery is open
Weekdays, 10am – 4pm.