To learn more about non-current maps see Map
History / History of Cartography.
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be found at Cartography - Calendar of Meetings
and Events.
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of past exhibitions.
Indefinite – Amsterdam
The
National Maritime
Museum, Kattenburgerplein 1, exhibition Maps
and Marvels 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.
Indefinite - Astoria, Oregon
The
European Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment were periods of
unprecedented expansion of human knowledge. Few gains were greater
than in the understanding of the geography of the world. The Pacific
Coast was the last region to be explored, proving to be full of great
hardship and promise. Mapping
the Pacific Coast displays maps of the Western Hemisphere and
Pacific Ocean, and can be seen at The
Columbia River Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Drive.
Indefinite – Bucharest
The
Muzeul Național
al Hărților și Cărții Vechi [National Museum
of Old Maps and Books], str.Londra nr.39 sector 1, opened to the
public in 2003 and is hosted in a beautiful villa built in the
1920's. The main collection of over 1000 items belonged to Professor
Adrian Năstase’s family and was donated to the Romanian
state. Numerous maps are displayed on the walls of this three story
villa.
Indefinite – Edinburgh
Treasures
of the National Library of Scotland
is a permanent exhibition of 13th- to 18th-century objects in the
library's collection which can be seen in George IV Bridge building.
Included are some of the first detailed maps of Scotland created by
Timothy Pont more than 400 years ago. The maps chart the geography of
16th-Century Scotland including details of tower houses and castles,
smaller buildings and settlements, mills and rivers and the extent of
woodland and physical features such as rivers and valleys and
mountain tops. They also mention landowners and other people.
Indefinite - 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.
Indefinite - Jacksonville, Florida
The Lewis
Ansbacher Map Collection contains some 244 antiquarian maps
of Florida and Florida cities, North and South America, and the
world. It includes historical views and plates focusing on northern
Florida. Most of these maps are on permanent display in the Morris
Ansbacher Map Room on the fourth floor of the Main
Library, 303 N. Laura Street. Additional information
813-228-0097.
Indefinite - Kozani, Greece
Kozani
in the World of Maps is on display at the Municipal
Map Library housed in the recently restored Georgios
Lassanis Mansion at the center of the city. The historic Map
Library, with its roots in 17th century, keeps a small but important
collection of maps, atlases and geography books, mainly from 18th
century, referred to the period of Greek Enlightenment. For example,
a copy of the 1797 Rigas Velestinlis "Charta" as well as
the extremely rare 1800 Anthimos Gazis world map are kept there among
other maps and atlases which were never before put on public display.
Contact info(at)kozlib.gr or 2461 50635 / 2461 50632 for additional
information.
Indefinite - Kynceľová,
Slovakia
The Slovak Map
Museum, Kynceľová 77, presents you not only the rich
past and exceptional present of cartography in Slovakia, but also the
traditional and modern methods and technologies that create maps. Its
uniqueness lies not only in the content of its exhibition, but also
in its form. It was based on the principles of the global trend of
enriching experiences for visitors through interactivity, advances in
high technology and modern principles of education. What would a
museum be like without the history of cartography and old maps? We
will look at the development of maps in the world, but of course also
in Slovakia. You will also find some truly unique maps here.
Indefinite - Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin
What is believed to be an original map of Lake
Geneva — found recently inside a historic lakefront mansion —
now offers the public a rare glimpse of the city in its earliest
origins. The map from the early 1840s is part of Geneva
Lake Museum’s new exhibit Mapping the Past. The
exhibit features about 30 maps of Lake Geneva and the surrounding
area, including the original map showing Lake Geneva’s layout
just after pioneers incorporated the new municipality in 1836. The
majority of the maps in the exhibit have been donated by Edward Weed
of the town of Linn.
Indefinite – La Rochelle, France
The Musée
du Nouveau Monde [Museum of the New World], 10 Rue Fleuriau, is
housed in an eighteenth century mansion, the hotel Fleuriau, named
after the family who lived there from 1772 to 1974. The Museum
features numerous old maps of the Americas as well as sculptures,
paintings, drawings, furniture and decorative objects. These objects
are evidence of the triangular trade and slavery with the Americas,
through which the city of La Rochelle, like others, amassed
considerable wealth. Part of the museum is devoted to the French
conquest of the New World, especially in Canada, while evoking the
Old West and Native Americans.
Indefinite – Mexico City
Museo
Nacional de la Cartografia, at Avenida Observatorio No. 94,
corner of Periférico Tacubaya, D.F., C.P. 11870, Delegación
Miguel Hidalgo, features exhibits about the general history of
mapping of Mexico. Codices, atlases, navigational charts, topographic
plans, and instruments used to make geodesic and topographical
measurements are on display.
Indefinite - Mussoorie, India
The
newly inaugurated George Everest Cartography Museum, located in the
George
Everest House which was owned by Everest from 1832 to 1843, is a
one-of-a-kind institution dedicated to preserving the rich history of
cartography, surveying, and mountaineering. The museum boasts an
impressive collection of exhibits showcasing the Great Trigonometric
Arc Survey initiated by Everest himself. Visitors can also explore
the extensive survey records of various Himalayan peaks undertaken by
Indian mountaineers. The museum is not only a treasure trove of
historical documents but also an educational resource. Information
about the diverse instruments used in these groundbreaking surveys is
thoughtfully presented, allowing visitors to delve into the methods
employed by these pioneers.
Indefinite - Palma, Majorca
Bartolomé March
Servera (1917-1998) became an important art collector and
bibliophile. The Fundación
Bartolomé March established a museum, where the family
residence in Palma was located for decades, to display his
collection. The Palau March, located at Carrer del Palau Reial, 18,
displays an outstanding collection of art and sculpture. Another of
the numerous collections that Bartolomé March brought together
was that of Majorcan Cartography. In Majorca, between the 14th
and 15th Century, an important set of navigation charts signed by
local artists was drawn up. The great majority of these charts left
the island and the most famous of them ended up in public libraries
or in private hands. Bringing together this collection, considered to
be one of the best in the world, was an arduous task. The exhibit
displayed here, with excellent documentation, brings together a very
interesting collection both for its technical perfection and its
exquisite ornamental effect. Included are Portolan charts by Jacobus
Russus (1535), Mateo Prunés (1561), Jaume Olives (1564 and
1571), Joan Oliva (1620), and Miquel Prunés (1640).
Indefinite - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
The Mercator
Museum, Zamanstraat 49, displays a chronological story of
cartography, from ancient times to today. In this story, the figure
and work of Gerard De Cremer (Rupelmonde 1512 - 1594 Duisburg) - aka
Gerard Mercator - is placed in the spotlight. His rare earth globe
(1541) and celestial globe (1551), recently included in the Flemish
masterpieces list, remain the highlights of the museum. The rich
collection of atlases, including his first Ptolemy edition 1584,
shines in the showcases. The story is complemented by a carefully
chosen selection of maps and atlases from the 17th to the early 20th
century.
Indefinite –
Sydney
Visitors to the State
Library of New South Wales can explore five centuries of
cartography from around the world in one place in the Map
Rooms. Across two beautiful rooms visitors will find some of the
most important maps, globes and navigation instruments from the
Library's maps collection - arguably the most significant in
Australia. One of the major highlights is a chart of the
Indian Ocean and Asia — one of only four copies in the world —
printed on vellum by Jacob Colom in 1633. Other highlights
include: an extremely rare 1515 map by Albrecht Dürer and
Johannes Stabius depicting the world as a sphere; a beautiful
hand-coloured copy of the iconic nineteen counties (the legal
boundaries of the colony up to that date) map produced by Sir Thomas
Mitchell in 1834; the 1940 Tindale map showing the distribution
of Aboriginal nations in NSW; and a selection of
rare early maps showing the gradual colonisation and expansion of
Sydney from a penal settlement to a bustling metropolis. The Map
Rooms are located on the first floor of the Mitchell Building, 1
Shakespeare Place, open every day.
Indefinite - Tampa, Florida
The
Touchton
Map Library and Florida Center for Cartographic Education, at The
Tampa Bay History Center, 801 Old Water Street, is home to more
than 8,000 maps, charts and other documents dating back from the
early European exploration of North America more than 500 years ago
up through the early 21st century. A rotating exhibition of selected
maps from the collection can be viewed in the Saunders Foundation
Gallery.
Indefinite - Vienna
The Globe
Museum of the Austrian National Library, Palais Mollard,
Herrengasse 9, is the world's only institution devoted to the study
of globes and related instruments like armillary spheres and
planetariums. On display in eight rooms are many of the more than 460
globes owned by the Museum. Additionally there is a bilingual (German
and English) multimedia presentation about globe history, globe
making, and the use of globes. Additional information from
globen(at)onb.ac.at or Tel.: (+43 1) 534 10-710 or Fax: (+43 1) 534
10-319.
Indefinite – Washington
In 2011, Albert H. Small
donated to George Washington
University Museum, 701 21st Street NW, his unrivaled collection
of 1,000 maps and prints, rare letters, photographs, and drawings
that document the history of Washington, DC. A
Collector’s Vision: Creating the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana
Collection presents highlights of the Albert H. Small
Washingtoniana Collection, including Mr. Small's first acquisition
and other items that explore what motivates individuals to collect.
Indefinite –
Williamsburg
The first large-scale expansion and upgrade to
the building that houses the Art
Museums of Colonial Williamsburg since they were first joined
under one roof in 2007 is complete. Guests at the DeWitt Wallace
Decorative Arts Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art
Museum are now able to enjoy an enhanced visitor experience through a
new wing that adds 65,000 square feet to the building, numerous
improved amenities as well as several new exhibitions. A new
exhibition Promoting
America: Maps of the Colonies and the New Republic, explores
how America’s indigenous peoples, flora, fauna and landscapes
influenced iconography on maps of the continent and how those symbols
changed, evolved or stayed the same over the course of two centuries.
Featured in the exhibition are maps that date from 1590, which
depicts the “New World” as a literal Garden of Eden and
will be on view for the first time, to an 1822 map celebrating the
relatively newly established United States as well as recent
acquisitions and other maps never before exhibited at the Art
Museums.
September 4, 2021 –
Indefinite - Eastsound, Washington
How do you get to Orcas
Island? How did the early explorers find their way before they even
knew what was there to be found? The Orcas
Island Historical Society’s new exhibition Mapping
Orcas: The Way Home features an extraordinary collection of
maps, most of which were assembled, restored, and reproduced by
photographer Peter C. Fisher of Orcas Island. Also featured in the
museum are exquisite, hand-drawn, original maps by the late Jean
Putnam. Maps include the township section map (1888-1895) by
J.J.Gilbert, a variety of geological and navigational charts, and a
number of maps specially created for the “edification” of
tourists and amusement of locals. Also exhibited is a reproduction of
a really old map, edited by three explorers in the 18th century, that
certainly verifies Juan de Fuca’s 16th-century description of
the islands he saw on his voyage to the Northwestern part of the
largely unknown continent. Two mid-nineteenth-century maps by John
Wilkes and his expedition show great leaps in the inaccuracy of
surveying and navigational methods. The Museum is open Tuesday thru
Saturday from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. It’s that cluster of log
cabins on North Beach Road, right beside the Village Green. Admission
is by donation.
January
13, 2023 - Indefinite – Boston
Becoming
Boston: Eight Moments in the Geography of a Changing City can
be seen in the Norman B.
Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public
Library, 700 Boylston St. The exhibition follows the changing spatial
forms of the place we now call Boston. Maps trace out the complicated
history of places, and we can use them to document geography in much
the same way that we can use diaries and letters to document
biography. In the eight cases of this exhibition, we follow the
changing spatial forms of the place we now call Boston—from
before the landscape carried that name all the way through the
struggles, clashes, and dreams that continue to reshape the city
today.
April 17, 2023 - May 2024 -
Boulder, Colorado
Featuring the works of two contemporary
women artists, Charlotte Bassin and Deborah Cole, and maps from the
Earth
Sciences & Map Library collection; No
Boundaries: Women Transforming the World highlights how using
maps in art-making prompts us to re-evaluate what we know about
space, place and depiction of ourselves in the world. The exhibit
will also a display a number of maps by women cartographers from the
map collection highlighting the historic and current role of women in
cartography, exploration and geographic representation. Exhibit can
be seen in Earth Sciences & Map Library, Benson Earth Sciences
Building, 2200 Colorado Avenue.
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.
May 4, 2023 - December 31, 2023 -
Cartagena, Colombia
The Embassy of Spain in Colombia and
Spanish Cooperation Training
Center in Cartagena de Indias (CFCE) organized an exhibition
Terra
Firme. Mapas y visitas del Nuevo Mundo – Siglos XVI – XIX
which can be seen at CFCE, Cl. 36 #2-74, Centro. This event will
feature a selection of engraved maps and coins from the 16th to the
19th centuries.
July 23, 2023 – February
28, 2024 and June 2024 – December 2024 – Udaipur,
India
The City
Palace Museum, Udaipur is holding an exhibition on rare painted
and printed maps of Udaipur in association with The
Getty Foundation of the USA. The exhibition Picturing
Place: Painted and Printed Maps at the Udaipur Court
brings together rare printed maps,
painted maps and cartographic documents from the Mewar Royal
collection in the Mardana Mahal. The exhibition gives visitors
fascinating insights into how places, landscapes, and the topography
of the State of Mewar were produced on maps, paintings, and other
related documents.
July 27, 2023 – June 2024 -
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
As a member of the first
expedition to Virginia in 1585, the artist and explorer John White
created a detailed rendering of the east coast of North America from
Virginia to Florida. White’s work is considered the first map
of the region drawn from direct observation. But it is also noted for
its dramatic pictorial record of the voyage, with depictions of
ships, flying fish, and formidable sea monsters. This exhibition,
Compasses,
Cartouches, and Creatures: Exploring the Art of North Carolina Maps,
explores a selection of historical North Carolina maps and the ways
that mapmakers used artistic embellishments to educate, entertain,
and entice. Exhibition is in Wilson
Library, 208 Raleigh Street; open 9:00-5:00, Monday-Friday,
except holidays.
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.
August 21, 2023 - December 2023 -
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Duncan MacRae Payne ’63, an
international relations major, loved traveling and history–
passions he merged by collecting maps, particularly those dating to
the 16th through 18th centuries. When Payne died in August 2021, he
bequeathed some of his most important atlases to Lehigh University
Libraries Special
Collections. Those atlases will be on public display for the
first time as part of an exhibit Where
Do We Go From Here? Maps and Atlases from the Duncan Payne and Lehigh
Libraries Collections in Linderman Library.
September 9, 2023 – April
27, 2024 – Boston
How do Bostonians get from here to
there in a city full of trains, trolleys, ferries, and more? Whether
in the familiar colored lines of today’s MBTA map or the
complicated timetables of long-vanished omnibus routes, maps have
long been an indispensable instrument for getting around town.
Getting Around
Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit will
feature an extraordinary collection of transit maps dating from the
seventeenth century to the present, and invites questions about how
people have moved around the city in the past, present, and future.
Exhibition can be seen in Leventhal
Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston Street. Guest curated by Steven Beaucher, author of Boston
in Transit and owner of WardMaps.
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 18, 2023 - December 22,
2023 - 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 18, 2023 - January 5,
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).
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 23, 2023 -December 31,
2023 - Reading, Pennsylvania
The Reading
Public Museum, 500 Museum Road, announces the opening of
Cartography
in the Age of Enlightenment in the Works on Paper Gallery on
The Museum’s Ground Floor. Made up entirely of works from The
Museum’s permanent collection, Cartography in the Age of
Enlightenment explores the art and science of mapmaking during
the “long 18th century.” Featuring over 30 maps and
supplemented with several cartographical instruments and charts, this
exhibition includes maps picturing both the Old World and the New. It
includes views of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and the
Americas.
September 23, 2023 –
January 28, 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.
September 28, 2023 - June 7, 2024
- Hong Kong
The Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology Lee Shau Kee Library,
and Media Technology and Publishing Center present China
in Maps: 500 Years of Evolving Images. Exhibition can be seen
in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Lee
Shau Kee Library.
September 28, 2023 - March 2024 -
Staunton, Virginia
Scott Ballin is telling a story, at least
in part, through maps. An avid collector of maps, Ballin's latest
exhibit, Early American Immigrants – 1600-1800: The Shaping
of a Future Nation, is currently on display at the Frontier
Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Rd. At the exhibit, Ballin displays
a series of beautiful original maps which demonstrates the
evolutionary changes that this country was going through.
October 10, 2023 - December 8,
2023 – Bruges
The Cultuurbibliotheek
Stock-Laureyns, Magdalenastraat 30, has a special interest in
China. Ferdinand Verbiest was born in Pittem. He became a Jesuit and
went to China as a missionary. The emperor had an interest in the
heavenly bodies and asked this Flemish astronomer for astronomical
information. The exhibition Verbiest
SJ. Vlaamse astronoom van de Chinese keizer Kangxi is about
the life and work of Ferdinand Verbiest.
October 27, 2023 - April 30, 2024
- Las Vegas, Nevada
The history of Nevada’s current
boundaries spans hundreds of years and is a story of war, expansion,
and the quest for wealth. Follow this history through maps at the
Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, 309 S. Valley View Blvd. Learn how
the State of Nevada came to be at the exhibition Mapping
Nevada: Tracing Nevada’s Statehood Through Maps.
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.
November 30, 2023 - June 2024 -
Portland, Maine
Chromolithography was used in the nineteenth
century to create full-color and realistic images of the world. A
Pageant of Spectacles: Chromolithography in America can be seen
at The Osher Map Library & Smith
Center for Cartographic Education. This exhibition explains the
printing process and explores some of its particular applications to
maps and bird’s-eye views.
April 2, 2024 - July 13, 2024 –
Lyon
Representing
the far away: an European view is an exhibition organized at
the Municipal
Library of Lyon, 30 boulevard Vivier-Merle, as part of the
"International Conference on the History of Cartography"
(ICHC) 2024. The
exhibition will particularly highlight documents (cartographic and
iconographic) and actors from Lyon in order to underline the place of
the city in international information networks over the centuries.
May 10, 2024 - August 31, 2024 –
Boston
In the early decades of nineteenth-century China, two
series of large-format maps, one terrestrial and one celestial, were
printed in the city of Suzhou. They were printed as eight loose
sheets using Prussian blue, the first large scale use of this pigment
in East Asia, in the unusual manner of a rubbing from a stone-stele,
resulting in most of the paper appearing in bright blue. The
terrestrial maps present the realm of the Qing Empire (1644–1911)
and selected surrounding regions. The four extant editions of the
celestial maps, dated to 1822 and 1826, present a planisphere of all
the known stars and extensive descriptions of known celestial bodies
and their related celestial mechanics. The exhibition Mapping
Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China considers these two
maps in the contexts of their production, consumption, and functions
revealing them as unique in the global history of mapmaking. Guest
curated by Dr. Richard Pegg, Director and Curator of the MacLean
Collection. Exhibition can be seen in Leventhal
Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston Street.
May 15, 2024 - September 29, 2024
– Lyon
Paper
trails - Maps and images of travel in France and elsewhere, 17th-21st
century is an exhibition organized at the Bibliothèque
Diderot de Lyon, 5 parvis René Descartes, as part of the
"International Conference on the History of Cartography"
(ICHC) 2024. The
exhibition combines objects, archival documents, travel reports and
commercial publications in a chronological and thematic approach that
illustrates the evolution of practices and representations associated
with mobility. Guidebooks from major publishers (Hachette, Michelin,
Baedeker) are presented alongside lesser-known works that illustrate
a local conception of the areas to be visited.