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Exhibitions for a current calendar of exhibitions.
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July 16, 2024 - January 18, 2025
– Portland, Maine
The Osher Map Library and Smith Center
for Cartographic Education announces our new gallery exhibit New
to Us: Recent Acquisitions, 2019-2024. We have some spectacular
new acquisitions to show you.
October 31, 2024 - January 25,
2025 - Casper, Wyoming
Fort Caspar Museum, 4001 Fort Caspar
Rd, has opened an exhibit, Historic Wyoming Maps, featuring a
selection of the Rosenthal Map Collection illustrating the
development of Wyoming from the pre-territorial period through
statehood and beyond. View 30 maps showing the evolution of Wyoming’s
boundaries from 1855 to 1957 which are on loan from The Nicolaysen
Art Museum.
November 1, 2024 - January 31,
2025 – Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Harvard Map
Collection’s current exhibit, Rivers & Roads: The Art of
Getting There, is on display in our Pusey Library Corridor
Gallery.
Closed 2025 - Hershey,
Pennsylvania
In today’s digital world, we’ve
become accustomed to getting where we’re headed by pulling up
MapQuest or Google Maps on our phone or by using a GPS system to
guides us to our destination; however, that hasn’t always been
the case. Since the advent of automobiles, motorists have needed to
know how to get to their destination, and for many decades they
relied on paper maps. Maps were given away by local gas stations,
convenience stores, tire companies, banks, tourist bureaus, chambers
of commerce, rental car companies, and many other businesses. Many of
these businesses provided these maps as a form of advertising to get
customers to visit their attraction or gas station brand. Learn more
about this interesting collecting topic and see Remembering Road
Maps; a display with early maps right here at the AACA Museum,
Inc., 161 Museum Drive.
April 4, 2024 - February 9, 2025
- Zollikon, Switzerland
Can maps make both local history and
various perspectives on a place visible? The new exhibition, at
Ortsmuseum Zollikon, Oberdorfstrasse 14, Zollikon von oben.
Einladung zum Perspektivenwechsel [Zollikon from above. Invitation to
a change of perspective] combines historical and current maps and
aerial photographs of Zollikon with mapping, local projects and
artistic-architectural perspectives.
November 4, 2024 – February
21, 2025 - Callaghan, Australia
Cartography is the beautiful
art and science of mapmaking. Throughout human history, the practice
of mapmaking has helped us to navigate the world around us and
understand our place in it. This exhibition, Unrolled: The
Hunter's Forgotten Maps, highlights key maps of the Hunter region
from our collections, including surveys from the late 18th century
and the mapping of later urban growth. Exhibition can be seen at
Level 2 of Auchmuty Library, Callaghan Campus, University of
Newcastle.
December 4, 2024 – February
26, 2025 – Stanford
Branner Earth Sciences Library &
Map Collection, 397 Panama Mall, is exhibiting the next installation
of their Naturally Hazardous series featuring maps & books
about extreme weather. Additional maps are displayed on the library
mezzanine exhibit wall (access from within the library).
October 9, 2024 - February 28,
2025 – Stanford
Epicenters: Navigating Recovery and
Renewal from Disasters can be seen at David Rumsey Map Center,
557 Escondido Mall. The exhibition was curated by Stanford student
Muhammad Dhafer, winner of the 2024 California Map Society student
exhibition competition.
September 5, 2024 - March 2, 2025
- Taipei City, Taiwan
Old maps with drawings of travel routes
primarily focus on travel routes and sometimes include roads and
travel route distance-related information. Distance-related
information can be found not only in maps but also in book
illustrations. Accordingly, this exhibition exhibits all artifacts
containing the related information of travel route. Connected in
All Directions / Exhibition of Old Maps and Books with Drawings of
Travel Routes introduces the National Palace Museum’s
collection of twenty sets of old maps and books with drawings of
travel routes in the 14th to the early 20th century. Exhibition can
be seen in Northern Branch Exhibition Area 104, No.221, Sec. 2,
Zhishan Rd., Shilin District and exhibition is closed December 2-6.
December 19, 2024 - March 9, 2025
- Ojai, California
Metes & Bounds: Mapping the Ojai
Valley is the newest exhibition at the Ojai Valley Museum, 130 W.
Ojai Ave. The exhibition highlights historic maps from the museum’s
extensive collection. Included are visitor maps, emergency maps,
specialty maps and even maps of things that were never built.
September 13, 2024 – March
23, 2025 – Boston
In the long history of mapmaking,
computers are a relatively new development. In some ways, computers
have fundamentally changed how cartographers create, interpret, and
share spatial data; in others, they simply mark a new chapter in how
people have always processed the world. Processing Place: How
Computers and Cartographers Redrew our World features objects
from the Leventhal Map Center’s unique collections in the
history of digital mapping to explore how computers and cartographers
changed one another, particularly since the 1960s. Exhibition can be
seen in Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public
Library, 700 Boylston Street.
March 1-31, 2025 - Caltanissetta,
Italy
The exhibition entitled Geohistory of the Nisseno
subsoil: narration of the mines through cartography will explore
the “Geohistory of the Nisseno subsoil: narration of the mines
through cartography”. It is a unique opportunity for discover,
through maps and finds, the history of the Nisseno subsoil and its
mining heritage. Exhibition can be seen in Palazzo Moncada, Largo
Barile, 93100 Caltanissetta CL.
Until April 21, 2025 –
Amsterdam
The National Maritime Museum, Kattenburgerplein 1,
exhibition Maps brings together maps, globes and atlases by
Dutch cartographers from the National Maritime Museum's world-leading
collection. This exhibition shows how the ships found their way at
sea in the Dutch Golden Age, and how these voyages defined the way we
see the world. Using rare and early maps and globes, visitors travel
to the locations that played an important role in the Dutch history:
South Africa, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. The
spectacular wall map of Amsterdam by Pieter Bast, dating from 1597,
forms the starting point of the exhibition.
February 28, 2025 - April 22,
2025 - Portland, Maine
Our Favorite Things: A Special
Selection of Items from the Collection Chosen by Staff and Friends
is this year's gallery exhibition at Osher Map Library, 314 Forest
Ave.
March 2025 - April 30, 2025 -
Charlotte, Vermont
Jenny Cole of the Charlotte Library and
Charlie Russell, chair of the development review board, town
moderator and local cartophile have put together an exhibit of
Charlotte maps in the Charlotte Library, 115 Ferry Rd. There
are probably 20-30 maps on display, but it’s hard to give an
exact number because Cole and Russell are encouraging anyone who has
a map they’d like to share to bring it in and it will be added
to the exhibition.
October 2024 – May 1, 2025
- Arlington, Texas
The University of Texas at Arlington,
Special Collections, is proud to present a new exhibition titled
Cosmic Cartography . Featuring maps and charts dating from 1548 to
2024, the exhibit explores humanity's desire to explain our
understanding of the universe through maps. The exhibit is located on
the sixth floor of Central Library in Special Collections. It is open
Tuesday through Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
March 6, 2025 - May 17, 2025 -
New York
On view in the Grolier Club’s second floor
gallery is Wish You Were Here: Guidebooks, Viewbooks, Photobooks,
and Maps of New York City, 1807-1940. The exhibition features
guidebooks, viewbooks, photobooks, maps, and pamphlets curated by
Grolier Club member Mark D. Tomasko from his collection. Maps from
Tomasko’s collection on display include Viele’s
"Topographical map of the city of New York" showing
original water courses and made land (1865), one of very few
19th-century maps of the City that is still used today, as
construction contractors reference it for underground streams, a
crucial piece of information for building foundations in Manhattan.
March 2, 2025 - May 25, 2025-
Tuxedo Park, New York
The Tuxedo Historical Society, 7
Hospital Rd., has announced the opening of a new exhibit, Tuxedo
on the Map, now open Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. Over two centuries
of local maps are on display, from George Washington’s
Continental Road and the Cheesecock patent lands, right up to the
latest proposed beautification plans for Tuxedo. See how the town,
village and hamlet have changed with maps from successive years
showing individual properties and the owners’ names with some
houses originally built as stables, ice houses, and fish hatcheries.
May 1-31, 2025 –
Barcelona
During the month of May, the General Map Library is
exhibiting a selection from its special collection Maps of the
Spanish Civil War in the display cases of the Newspaper archive
of the Humanities Library. The war in maps and maps of the war are
the two aspects you will find.
October 21, 2024 - June 7, 2025 –
Richmond
A new exhibition at the Library of Virginia, 800 East
Broad Street, will tell the story of 10 years, five governors, two
principal surveyors and one lead engraver — the time frame and
team needed to create one of the first official state maps in the
nation in the early 1800s. The exhibition Mapping the
Commonwealth, 1816–1826 will present examples from 40
manuscript maps that highlight the painstaking task of creating
Virginia’s first official state map. Correspondence and other
documents related to the publication of the map, as well as
copperplates — printing plates used for engraving — will
also be displayed in the exhibition.
April 12, 2025 - June 16, 2025 -
Sag Harbor, New York
Several views of Sag Harbor over
centuries can now be seen at the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical
Museum, 200 Main Street, in Fixed In Time and Space / Maps of Sag
Harbor, 1796-1921. This compact exhibit offers glimpses of the
village through maps dating from 1796 to 1921 that plot its streets,
businesses, waterfront features and, eventually, homes.
March 15, 2025 - June 17, 2025 -
Littlehampton, United Kingdom
Explore the changing landscape
of Littlehampton in this fascinating exhibition, Littlehampton
Mapped Out, in the Littlehampton Museum’s Butterworth
Gallery.
February 15, 2025 - June 22, 2025
- Bath, England
The year kicks off with a special exhibition
at American Museum & Gardens. Myths and Memories: Renaissance
Maps is the first major display of the American Museum’s
world-renowned collection in over a decade. More than 40 maps and
objects will be on display, dating from the 15th to the 17th century,
when European explorers were mapping out trade routes and first
‘discovering’ other parts of the world, including what we
now know as America.
May 2025 - June 30, 2025 -
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Renaissance Treasures of the
Harvard Map Collection can be seen in Pusey Library, Corridor
Gallery, Harvard Map Collection. This exhibition presents some
highlights of the 1,200 maps and 64 atlases from the European
Renaissance in the Harvard Map Collection. Nearly a quarter of these
were part of the 1818 purchase of the collection of Professor
Christoph Daniel Ebeling (1741-1817) that launched the Harvard Map
Collection.
May 2025 - July 5, 2025 - Sharjah
- United Arab Emirates
Exhibition at House of Wisdom showcases
history of geography, cartography. Chapters of Islamic Art:
Travelogues bridges the past and present, proving that curiosity
knows no borders, and by highlighting the legacies of Muslim
explorers and cartographers, Sharjah’s House of Wisdom invites
the public to see geography not just as maps, but as a testament to
humanity’s timeless quest for connection and understanding.
July 2-31, 2025 - Elkhart, Indiana
Visit
the Havilah Beardsley House, 102 W Beardsley Ave. to see a special
exhibit from the Indiana Historical Society: Indiana
Through the Mapmaker’s Eye.
This exhibit shows maps used as documentation, tools, political
images, and even art. Indiana
Through the Mapmaker's Eye explores
how maps can show how an area developed throughout the years, showing
how counties were drawn, land was seized, and infrastructure was
created.
July 21, 2025 - August 1, 2025 -
Madison, Wisconsin
In 1981, Karen Wynn Fonstad authored "The
Atlas of Middle-earth," the official geographic guide to the
world of author J.R.R. Tolkien. This summer, for the first time, Wynn
Fonstad’s original hand-drawn maps will be exhibited to the
public. Fantastic Worlds: A Cartographic Exploration of the Works
of Fantasy Mapmaker Karen Wynn Fonstad can be seen in Robinson
Map Library; 3rd Floor of Science Hall, 550 N Park St.
March 15, 2025 - August 3, 2025 –
Norwich
For the first time in its 40 year history, The
Sunderland Collection, a private collection of rare antique
cartography, is loaning items to a public institution. The collection
is lending eight atlases and maps to the Sainsbury Centre, a public
art museum in Norwich, UK which is affiliated with the University of
East Anglia. A World of Water is part of "Can the Seas
Survive Us?", a series of Sainsbury Centre exhibitions.
May 7, 2025 - August 22, 2025 –
Portland, Maine
The Osher Map Library, 314 Forest Avenue, has
an exhibit A World on Display: Anthropology and World's Fairs,
1851-1904. The exhibit will include maps of the fairs and is done
in collaboration with University of Southern Maine class Anthropology
320.
July 2024 – August 2025 -
Monterey, California
Uruguay-born artist Jo Mora spent his
career bringing the American West to life. Now, the Monterey History
and Art Association at Stanton Center, 5 Custom House Plaza, is
honoring his legacy with a new exhibition. Now more than 75 years
after Mora’s death in 1947, the exhibition, Jo Mora:
Cartographer, celebrates the unique work Mora may be best known
for: his iconic “cartes.” Twenty-two of Mora’s
cartes are the focus of the exhibition.
September 13, 2024 – August
2025 – Boulder, Colorado
Topophilia,
which means “love of place”, is a term that explores the
bond between people and place. It's also the topic and title of a new
exhibition at the Earth Sciences & Map Library, University of
colorado Boulder. The exhibition Topophilia
invites viewers to
consider their own relationships to place through the prints of
Johanna Mueller, ceramic installations by Rita Vali, and a collection
of gorgeous maps from the University Libraries co-curated by
Geological Sciences/Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics PhD
candidate Sam Cartwright and Map Curator Naomi Heiser.