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Exhibitions for a current calendar of exhibitions.
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November 7, 2023 - January 20,
2024 - Victoria, Seychelles
The new Seychelles National
Gallery, located inside the National Library building, will hold its
first exhibition: The Seychelles: A Journey through the History of
Maps (1482-1830). There will be around 40 maps and models of
ships that sailed the Indian Ocean on display. The majority of maps
were obtained from museums in France. Additionally there will be
exceptional old artifacts linked to navigation and astronomy.
September 18, 2023 - January 30,
2024 – Minneapolis
Eyes
on the World : Cartography in the Age of Sail is
an exhibit from the James Ford Bell Library which features a wide
range of maps and atlases produced by cartographers and printers from
the 15th through the 18th century. These cartographers grappled with
reconciling traditional world views with the constantly changing new
information European travelers of all sorts brought back from around
the globe. Exhibition is on view in Elmer L. Andersen Library, Bell
Gallery (ground floor), 222 21st Ave S. Open during library hours (9
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday; and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
on Wednesday and Thursday).
July 29, 2023 - January 31, 2024
– Corsica
The Corsican Museum invites you to travel and
discover the world of maps. Cartografia, Corsica in maps 1520-1900
brings together geography and history in a corpus of representations
of the island and the Mediterranean traced under the eye of the
cosmographer, the politician, the military, the hydrographer. The
exhibition, of over 300 items, presents a selection of ancient
documents, maps and plans, books and atlases.
September 18, 2023 –
February 23, 2024 - Ann Arbor
Manga no Ryokou: The “Manga
Map” and A Journey Through the Art of Depiction in Japanese
Cartography examines the intersection between art, narrative, and
geography within Japanese cartography. It centers on the titular
“manga map”, a rare Japanese travel map of Japan (ca.
1934) that is densely packed with manga illustrations detailing local
folklore, history, architecture, flora/fauna, and more. The exhibit
also includes works of Japanese art and cartography in order to
consider the dichotomy between artistry and geographic depiction, and
how that plays with the definition of a “map.” Exhibition
can be seen in Clark Library Exhibit Space, Hatcher Library South.
September
23, 2023 - February 24, 2024 – Haverfordwest
An
exciting new exhibition of maps from the National Library of Wales
will open at the Riverside Gallery, Haverfordwest. The Wales
to the World exhibition
will display a selection of maps from the more than 1.5 million
objects cared for in the National Map Collection in Aberystwyth. The
exhibition ranges from the oldest map in the National Library of
Wales to newly commissioned artworks, funded by Welsh Government’s
Anti-racist Wales Action Plan. Highlights of the exhibition include
Cambriae Typus by Humphrey Llwyd – the earliest printed map
specifically of Wales, a Cold War map of Pembroke Dock secretly drawn
by the Soviet Union, 17th century playing cards on a map theme, and a
German propaganda map quoting David Lloyd George. Brand-new artworks
inspired by the map collection will also be on display for the first
time in this exhibition, alongside the items that inspired them.
September 16, 2023 - –
March 3, 2024 - St.Gallen, Switzerland
Celestial
globes made by Jost Bürgi are displayed in the exhibition Key
To The Cosmos at
Kulturmuseum St.Gallen, Museumstrasse 50.
September 23, 2023 – March
3, 2024 - 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
The exhibition
Mapping Modernity – Mapping Modernity tells the story of
our world in 250 maps. You can imagine the makers of the maps: the SS
commander who designed the Jewish ghetto with a few lines on the map
of Warsaw in 1940, thus sealing the fate of thousands of people. The
concerned Rijkswaterstaat official who handed in a map to his bosses
with better protection of Zeeland, two days before the flood disaster
in 1953. The makers of the 19th century American school atlas which
indicates which peoples are civilized and which have yet to develop
into white standard (if that is even possible). The exhibition
Mapping Modernity – Mapping Modernity is the crowning
achievement of the work of the passionate collectors John Steegh and
Harrie Teunissen. Exhibition is in Design Museum Den Bosch, De Mortel
4.
April 27, 2023 - March 22, 2024 –
Madrid
Before the discovery of America (1492) and the
subsequent realization in Europe (around 1503) that these lands were
a new continent and not part of Asia, the known world graphically
"fit" in a single circle or hemisphere. Thus, both the
world maps of the ancient Greek and Roman geographers, as well as the
later ones of the Middle Ages, used to have the shape of a circle .
The first known map showing America as a separate continent,
published in 1507, was also the first to include a small double -
hemisphere map as an explanatory diagram of the new configuration of
the world. Since then, double-hemisphere maps, colloquially known as
"two of oros [coins]" due to their similarity to that card
in the Spanish deck of cards, have been associated with the image of
ancient cartography, reaching their highest levels of aesthetic
beauty during the 17th and 18th centuries when authentic
copper-engraved works of art were produced for later printing. The
exhibition El mundo en un “Dos de Oros” offers a
selection of maps in "two of oros" belonging to different
periods, made in different styles. Exhibition is in Instituto
Geográfico Nacional, C/ General Ibáñez de Ibero,
3.
July 29, 2023 - March 30, 2024 –
Corsica
The Corsican Museum invites us to travel and discover
the world of maps. Cartografia, Corsica in maps 1520-1900
brings together geography and history in a corpus of representations
of the island and the Mediterranean traced under the eye of the
cosmographer, the politician, the military, the hydrographer. The
exhibition presents a selection of ancient documents, maps and plans,
books and atlases, as well as the actors and the many techniques that
participate in the cartographic discipline.