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of past exhibitions.
Indefinite - Carson, California
A permanent exhibition
of antique maps has opened on the second floor of the California
State University Dominguez Hills University
Library, 1000 E. Victoria Street. Entitled Where
Are You From? the exhibition documents the vast information
that be gleaned from maps. Looking for New Granada? Since it is now
the country of Columbia you probably can't readily find it on
MapQuest, although it is represented on a map now on display in the
library. Need to find where Russian Tartary or "Hindoostan"
was? You can find them in the exhibition. With 15 maps dating from
1747 to 1946, the exhibition covers the entire world. These maps show
how the world was viewed throughout the last 250 years and surprise
the viewer with accuracy as well as inaccuracy and whimsy. They
invite praise for their art and design, confusion when a familiar
place is named something else and serve as a gateway for critical
thinking. The maps are part of the Library's Archives and Special
Collections Map Collection. Additional maps are on display in the on
the fifth floor. The Library collaborated with the Promoting
Excellence in Graduate Studies Program to put the exhibition
together. The maps can viewed during regular library hours.
Indefinite - Fort Wayne, Indiana
The
Karpeles Library is the world's largest private holding of important
original manuscripts & documents. Founded in 1983 by California
residents David and Marsha Karpeles, the focus was to stimulate an
appetite for learning. Currently, there are 12 museums and one map
museum nationwide, with each one occupying a preserved building. The
Karpeles Map
Museum, Pinqua, occupies the former Church of Christ at 3039
Piqua Avenue. The map-only museum will display maps on a three- to
six-month rotation schedule. Admission is always free. For
information (KMuseumFtW(at)aol.com) call 260-456-6929.
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 - Kahului, Maui, Hawaii
The story of how
Hawaii found its place on the map in the mid-Pacific is a tale filled
with discovery, adventure and conflict. When European explorers first
entered the Pacific, they found that the great ocean had already been
mastered by navigators whose nautical skills rivaled their own: the
Polynesians. The presence of the Polynesians throughout the ocean's
isles was testimony to an extraordinary seafaring heritage. The Story
of Hawaii Museum displays antique maps, prints and ephemera from
the Polynesian Migrations to the 21st Century in an attempt to
explain the history of Hawaii. The Story of Hawaii Museum Gallery &
Museum Gift Shop is open 7 days a week and is centrally located at
the first level of Queen Kaahumanu Center, 275 W Kaahumanu Ave.
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 – La Jolla, California
The Map
& Atlas Museum of La Jolla is tucked into an office building
at 7825 Fay Ave, Suite LL-A. The maps are displayed on walls and in
cases, arranged somewhat chronologically and by themes. There’s
a crude black and white drawing of the world from 1472, a vibrant
“Roads to Romance” representation of Southern California
circa 1958 and hundreds of other maps from all over the world. Some
were used in their day for navigation, some for display, some for
dreaming. There are maps that show California as an island - a
depiction of an almost mythological paradise that persists, in the
public consciousness, centuries later. There is a map from 1617 that
shows what is now Belgium and Holland shaped like a lion - a
projection of power and national pride. The maps are a part of the
Stone Map and Atlas Foundation, headed by local businessman and
philanthropist Michael Stone, who has been collecting maps for 20
years. The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday 11-4 and the 1st and
3rd Saturday also 11-4 or by appointment for groups of four or more.
For additional information contact Richard Cloward
(richard(at)lajollamapmuseum.org) or Roz Gibson
(roz(at)lajollamapmuseum.org) at 855-653-6277.
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 - 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 – Mexico City
Museo
Nacional de la Cartografía,
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 – Montreal
History
and Memory showcases almost 500 artifacts, images, archival
documents, and early maps from the Stewart
Museum’s vast collection showing the influence of European
civilizations in New France and North America. The planispheres, star
charts and maps of North and South America and the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans amply illustrate the expanding geographic knowledge
gained by Europeans as they made their way across continents, that
until then, had remained terra incognita. Added to these artefacts is
a major collection of globes and navigation instruments: mariner’s
compass, traverse board, nocturnal, astrolabe, sundial, and maritime
hourglass from the 18th century. The Stewart Museum is located at the
British military depot on St. Helen's Island, Parc Jean-Drapeau.
Indefinite - Raleigh, North Carolina
Capital
Cartography: A History of Raleigh in Maps can be seen at the
City of Raleigh Museum,
220 Fayetteville Street. This exhibit showcases over two hundred
years of Raleigh’s development through a collection of historic
maps. Looking at maps as more than way finding tools, visitors
experience cartography as a reflection of the times and the draftsmen
who crafted them. The exhibit features 14 maps that reflect over 200
years of the Capital city’s history.
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 - 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 map 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
Exploring
the Early Americas is an exhibition featuring the 1507
Waldseemüller "World Map," the first map to use the
name America; and rotating items from the Jay
I. Kislak Collection, which includes rare books, manuscripts,
historic documents, maps and art of the Americas. Also on display is
Waldseemüller's "Carta Marina" or Navigators' Chart;
and the Schöner Sammelbund, a portfolio that contained two world
maps and other cartographic materials. The exhibition is in the
Northwest Gallery of the Jefferson
Building, Library of
Congress. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Indefinite – Washington
Mapping
a Growing Nation: Abel Buell’s Map of the United States, 1784
is
an exhibition at the Library
of Congress featuring the first map of the newly independent
United States that was compiled, printed and published in America by
an American. The exhibition will be located in the Great Hall North
Gallery on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First
St. S.E. Free and open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Saturday. Rare and historically important, the Abel
Buell map also was the first map to be copyrighted in the United
States. Seven copies of the map are known to exist, and this copy is
considered the best preserved and, therefore, is the most frequently
chosen for illustration of Buell’s work. Also on display will
be four early maps of North America by John Mitchell, Carington
Bowles, Thomas Hutchins and William Faden, which were created from
1755 to 1778. Buell most likely consulted these maps when he engraved
his large wall map. A 1784 map of the United States by William
McMurray, which was published nine months after Buell’s map,
will complete the exhibition.
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 – Washington
The
Historical Society of Washington
is delighted to present a new exhibit, Window
to Washington, featuring the Kiplinger Collection, the most
important donation in the organization’s 188-year history. The
exhibit explores the development of our nation’s capital, from
a sleepy southern town into a modern metropolis, as told through the
works of artists who witnessed the city’s changes. The exhibit
can be seen at the Society's Kiplinger
Library on the second floor of the historic Carnegie Library
building in Mt. Vernon Square, 801 K Street, NW - the District’s
original, never segregated Central Library - directly across from the
Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The exhibition draws from the
strengths of the Kiplinger Collection in early maps and birds-eye
views, 19th and 20th century prints, mid-20th century oil paintings,
watercolors, and photographs. Upon entering the exhibition one first
sees a print of the first published version of Pierre L’Enfant’s
famous 1791 map depicting the gifted French architect and urban
planner’s vision for a capital city worthy of comparison with
those of great European nations. Open Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Appointments for group tours can be made by
contacting the library (library(at)historydc.org).
April 2014 - April 2018 – Amsterdam
Go on a
journey with the maps and atlases that forever changed how we see the
world. The exhibition, The
Atlases, shows you top pieces from The National Maritime
Museum's extensive collection of maps and atlases. Get acquainted
with the four pioneers of cartography: Ptolemy, Mercator, Claesz, and
Blaeu. These map makers and publishers produced maps and atlases that
forever changed how we see the world. Exhibition can be seen in the
East Wing, National
Maritime Museum, Kattenburgerplein 1.
February 2016 - through 2018 - Austin, Texas
The
Bullock Museum,
1800 N. Congress Ave, exhibition Mapping
Texas: Collections from the Texas General Land Office is an
exhibit throughout the year of maps from the Texas
General Land Office. Maps change quarterly.
February 24, 2017 – June 24, 2018 - The Hague
The
world of the Dutch East India Company can be seen at The
National Archives, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 20. This exhibition
marks the digitization of the archives of the Dutch East India
Company (VOC). The archives are spread across various countries
around the world and a large portion is preserved in the National
Archives. They contain a wealth of information and have served as a
unique source for research for many years. The National Archives
brings this remarkable material together for the first time in a
single exhibition. Visitors are taken on a voyage past two hundred
years of history of unique maps, ships' logs, letters and drawings.
For this exhibition fifty unique maps and charts are on display.
April 14, 2017 – September 30, 2018 –
Amsterdam
Joan Blaeu's map
of the world, dating from 1648, one of the absolute highlights of
National Maritime
Museum, Kattenburgerplein 1, is on view for the public. Its size
is impressive – over 2 by 3 metres – and at the time it
displayed the most up-to-date knowledge of the world we live in. This
version of the map is absolutely unique. After being hidden away for
a long time, the map is once again open to the public as part of the
exhibition The
world according to Joan Blaeu | Master Cartographer of the Golden
Age. The
world according to Joan Blaeu is
a supplement to the popular Atlases
exhibition.
April 26, 2017 - April 20, 2018 – Madrid
La
evolución de la imagen del Mundo [The evolution of the image
of the World] can be seen at National
Geographic Institute, (Access by the Map House) C / General
Ibáñez de Ibero, 3. Starting from the first
geographical references of ancient Greece, which considered a flat
world, we will pass through the spherical Earth proposed by prominent
names such as Aristotle and Eratosthenes. Next are the "T and O"
maps and the nautical charts of the Middle Ages. Then there is the
rediscovery of Ptolemy's Geographia in the Renaissance, followed by
the great oceanic explorations that finished delineating the world as
we know it today.
July 1, 2017 – November 1, 2018 – Pittsburgh
Few
objects from colonial America had such a personal connection to their
owners as the powder horns used by soldiers, settlers, and American
Indians to store the gunpowder necessary for their survival. The Fort
Pitt Museum, 601 Commonwealth Pl, will reveal the stories behind
these delicately carved objects as part of a new exhibition, From
Maps to Mermaids: Carved Powder Horns in Early America. In a
world where firearms were necessary tools, the powder horn –
made from the lightweight and hollow horn of a cow – served as
the constant companion of thousands of frontier residents. While
powder horns kept gunpowder dry, many owners also recognized the
smooth surface of the horn as the ideal place to leave their mark.
They etched names, dates, maps, and war records, as well as purely
whimsical figures, into the objects. Many carved powder horns found
in Pennsylvania in recent decades illustrate stations along the
Forbes Road and include some of the earliest first-hand depictions of
Fort Pitt. A 1764 powder horn depicts the Forbes Road between
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The horn is signed by Jno. Fox, who may
have been a soldier in the Royal American Regiment stationed at Fort
Pitt.
July 13, 2017 – July 2018 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
The
Museu
Histórico
Abílio Barreto, Avenida Prudente de Morais, 202, has an
exhibition O
Desafio Cartográfico do novo / Belo Horizonte –
Cartografia de uma Cidade Planejada [The Cartographic Challenge of
the New / Belo Horizonte and the Cartography of a Planned City]. This
exhibition of manuscript and printed maps reveals the diversity of
documentation that was produced during the construction of the new
capital by the end of the nineteenth century. Topographical maps,
cadastral surveys, and numerous maps document the development of Belo
Horizonte.
September 2017 - April 9, 2018 - New York
The New
York Public Library’s extensive map collection includes a
treasure trove of artistically creative cartography. When maps are
embellished with pictures, as they have been since mapping began, we
receive geographic information in richer, more engaging ways.
Illustrated maps of New York are especially effective in offering
exuberant and evolving views of a burgeoning metropolis. It seems
only right, after all, that such a flourishing city be depicted with
all manner of visual flourishes. Picturing
the City: Illustrated Maps of NYC features a diverse
selection of illustrated maps spanning six centuries, from
Manhattan’s earliest days as the hub of a new Dutch colony to a
lighthearted depiction of the city in the 22nd century. Exhibit can
be seen in Lionel
Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, Stephen A. Schwarzman
Building, 476 Fifth Avenue (42nd St and Fifth Ave), First Floor ,
Room 117.
October 21, 2017 – May 21, 2018 - Grenoble, France
The
Alps of Jean de Beins / Maps to landscapes (1604 – 1634)
can be seen at Musée
de l'Ancien Évêché, 2, rue Très-Cloîtres.
Jean de Beins, engineer of the king, drew between 1604 and 1634, a
detailed cartography of Dauphine. His works, of obvious artistic
quality, depict various aspects of the province in the seventeenth
century, evoke the military issues of territorial control, but also
recall that he was one of the pioneers of modern cartography. The
exhibition presents in a documented way about sixty maps, manuscript
or printed, from major European institutions such as the British
Library and the National Library of France. Archives documents from
the funds of the Grenoble Municipal Library, the Departmental
Archives of Isère and the Municipal Archives of Saint-Egrève
enrich the subject.
October 28, 2017 - April 2, 2018 - Laufenburg, Switzerland
The
Museum Schiff Laufenburg,
Fluhgasse 156, has an exhibition Historische Karten der Region
(Hochrhein region) [Historical maps of the region]. Open
Wednesday from 14:00 to 16:00; Saturday and Sunday from 14:00 to
17:00. Admission free!
November 14, 2017 - July 2018 - Ithaca, New York
Maps
are powerful and engaging forms of visual communication. They show us
our world, and the myriad smaller places within it. Maps simplify,
scale down, and organize what otherwise would be too large, too
distant, or too complex to be seen. Maps fulfill a multitude of
functions, and are used for a variety of purposes. Political maps,
railway maps, waterway maps, soil maps; from cross-sections of lake
water depth to trolley routes; maps are irresistible and invaluable
resources for learning about our environment in all its tremendous
diversity. The Maps of Tompkins County can be seen at The
History Center in Tompkins County, 401 E. State / E. MLK Street •
Suite 100. This exhibit displays a sampling of The History Center's
map collection from the 19th through the 21st centuries. Open Tues.
Thurs. Sat. • 11AM – 5PM. Also by appointment. First
Friday of Every Month • 5PM - 8 PM.
November 18, 2017 - May 6, 2018 - Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania
Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler was the most prolific
Victorian-era panorama artist. During a career that spanned nearly 50
years, Fowler produced more bird’s eye views of American cities
and towns than any other artist. Over half of his more than 400 town
views depict communities in Pennsylvania. The State
Museum of Pennsylvania, 300 North St, new exhibit T.M.
Fowler’s Pennsylvania Bird’s-Eye Views, 1885-1905
will showcase a sampling of original Fowler lithographic prints
produced between 1885-1905.
December 5, 2017 - August 12, 2018 - Tainan, Taiwan
One
of only six known maps remaining in the world that demarcate zones of
residence of the Han from those of the Aborigines on Taiwan during
the Qing Dynasty is being exhibited at the National
Museum of Taiwan History, in the Display Education Building, 4th
Floor. The map, which it would have taken up to five years to draw,
is one of 70 ancient cartographic pieces in the exhibition Taiwan
History in Maps at the National Museum of Taiwan History.
Other maps include a map of Taiwan drawn under Emperor Daoguang, who
reigned from 1820 to 1850, and maps marking areas managed by
Presbyterian missionaries in the final years of the Qing Empire.
December 9, 2017 - June 3, 2018 - South Brisbane, Queensland
A
Braille globe sits on display at the State Library in South Bank,
well-worn from the numerous fingers that have run across its surface.
It’s one of many Braille models, maps and toys Richard Frank
Tunley created over 50 years from the 1920s, providing an educational
resource and joy for the vision-impaired children of Brisbane. In
1924, Mr Tunley helped establish compulsory education for blind and
deaf children and was instrumental in establishing the Braille House
at Annerley in the 1950s. His Braille maps and globe are part of the
exhibition Magnificent
Makers on display in the State
Library Queensland, Philip Bacon Heritage Gallery, level 4, South
Bank.
January 2018 - April 14, 2018 - Martin, Slovakia
Old
maps of Europe and Slovakia can be seen at the Literary
Museum of the Slovak National
Library (Slovenská národná knižnica, M. R.
Štefánika 11). The exhibition shows a collection of
maps and graphic representations of Europe and Slovakia from the 15th
to 18th century. Included are maps created by Slovaks such as Pavol
Kray, Samuel Mikovíni, Andreas Erik Fritsch, Samuel Krieger
and founder of Hungarian Scientific Geographic Statistics Ján
Matej Korabinský. They were mainly representations of
upper-Hungarian (Slovak) cities and regions that were part of Slovak
Matej Bel’s work (one of the most significant European
scientists of the 18th century and founder of modern geography in the
Hungarian kingdom).
January 16, 2018 – April 14, 2018 - Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Maps enjoy a long tradition as a mode of
literary illustration, orienting readers to worlds real and imagined.
Presented in conjunction with the bicentenary of the Harvard Map
Collection, the exhibition Landmarks:
Maps as Literary Illustration brings together over sixty
landmark literary maps, from the 200-mile-wide island in Thomas
More’s Utopia to the supercontinent called the Stillness in N.
K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. Visitors will traverse literary
geographies from William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County to
Nuruddin Farah’s besieged Somalia; or perhaps escape the
world’s bothers in Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood. At this
intersection of literature and cartography, get your bearings and let
these maps guide your way. Exhibition can be seen in Edison and
Newman room, Houghton Library,
Harvard Yard.
January 22, 2018 - June 15, 2018 - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
A
colorful pie chart created in 1805 by the inventor of statistical
graphs, William Playfair, to show the then-proportions of the states,
territories and provinces of the United States. Maps and charts of
Manhattan in the early 1930s prepared by the Slum Clearance Committee
of New York. Illustrations of the location, size and shape of
sunspots that Galileo observed by projecting the sun onto paper
through a telescope. A map to visualize the number of prostitutes in
each of Paris’s 48 quarters in the early 1800s, as famed
hygienist Alexandre Jean Baptiste Parent-Duchâtelet explored
the connection at the time between prostitution and public health.
These are some of the dozens of charts, graphs, maps and other images
on display in Linderman
Library, Leigh University, 30 Library Drive, as part of an
exhibit titled, At
a Glance: Selected Works in the History of Data Visualization.
The items are on display in the library’s main reading room,
the Café Gallery on the ground floor, and the Bayer Galleria
on the third floor.
February 2018 - May 25, 2018 - Boulder, Colorado
The
Earth
Sciences & Map Library, University of Colorado Boulder, 2200
Colorado Avenue, has an exhibition A
Century of Views of Colorado: 1820-1920". Displayed are
items ranging from government exploration artists' views to
commercial birds-eye views to early maps with vignettes of Colorado
communities. Some of the items are quite early for Colorado, and
rare, so you might enjoy seeing them for the first time.
February 2018- December 2018 - Dayton, Washington
Mapping
Our Place: Maps of Dayton and Columbia County exhibit at
Dayton Historic Depot,
222 E. Commercial St. features historic maps of Dayton and Columbia
County. Three Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from 1898, 1909, and 1916,
military road maps, and maps of Huntsville, Starbuck and Columbia
County produced by George Baker, who owned the title company in
Columbia County in 1900, and many more will be on display. The
current hours of operation are; Wednesday through Saturday from 11-4
p.m.
February 3, 2018 - September 26, 2018 – Seattle
The
Log House
Museum, 3003 61st Ave. S.W., will host a map exhibition
Navigating
to Alki: Early Maps of the Duwamish Peninsula. The maps
depict the growth and development of the northern Duwamish Peninsula,
from its first inhabitants until its annexation by Seattle in 1907.
February 14, 2018 - April 2, 2018 - Thessaloníki Two years after some of the rare, 333-year-old maps of the Aegean Archipelago commissioned by Louis XIV of France were found in the Thessaloníki University Library – and led to the discovery of the remainder of the collection in the historical archives of the French defence ministry – an exhibition of the reunited map collection has been organised in the northern Greek city of Thessaloníki. The exhibition Archipelago 1685-1687 in the maps of Louis XIV was organised by the Thessaloníki University library in collaboration with the French Consulate in Thessaloníki and the AUTH Cartography Workshop. It was inaugurated at the Telloglio Arts Foundation. It features 39 rare, hand-drawn French maps of the Cyclades islands of exceptional quality and technique – which demonstrate the influence of classicism on cartography – as well as 28 panoramic works of art.
February 17, 2018 – September 17, 2018 - San Antonio
The
Witte Museum and Texas General Land Office leaders are excited to
announce Connecting
Texas: 300 Years of Trails, Rails, and Roads, a new
collaborative exhibition. This exhibition highlights the complexity
of the pathways that symbolize the many cultures that found a place
in the land we now call Texas and is another way to reflect on the
past 300 years of San Antonio’s history. The exhibition will be
in the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg South Texas Heritage Center at
the Witte Museum, 3801
Broadway St., and feature maps that examine how explorers, Native
Americans, armies immigrants and early settlers moved in, around and
across Texas over the last 300 years.
February 17, 2018 - April 15, 2018 – Venice
In
cooperation with the International
Coronelli Society of Vienna, the Biblioteca
Marciana will mount a special exhibition, The Image of the
World, in honour of Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), the
celebrated Venetian map and globe maker who died three hundred years
ago. Prof Marica Milanesi, whose recent book on Coronelli was
reviewed in Maps in History n° 58 (May 2017), is responsible for
the exhibition concept, with the support of Dr Orsola Braides
(Marciana) and Heide Wohlschläger (Coronelli Society). On
display will be maps and objects of Coronelli's life from the
Marciana, as well as globes from the Rudolf Schmidt collection. A
tri-lingual catalogue (Italian, English, German) will be published by
Marica Milanesi and Heide Wohlschläger as a special edition for
the members of the Coronelli Society. Venue: Salone Sansovino,
Biblioteca Marciana, Piazetta San Marco. Additional information from
<heide.wohlschlaeger(at)coronelli.org>.
February 27, 2018 - May 27, 2018 - New Orleans
In
commemoration of the city’s 300th anniversary in 2018, The
Historic New Orleans Collection,
533 Royal Street, will provide a multifaceted exploration of the
city’s first few decades and its earliest inhabitants with New
Orleans, the Founding Era, an original exhibition and
bilingual companion catalog. The exhibition will bring together a
vast array of rare artifacts from THNOC’s holdings and from
institutions across Europe and North America to tell the stories of
the city’s early days, when the city consisted of little more
than hastily assembled huts and buildings. Beginning with the
region’s Native American tribes, through the waves of European
arrival and the forced migration of enslaved African people, the
exhibition will reflect on the complicated and often conflicted
meanings the settlement’s development held for individuals,
empires and indigenous nations. The display will feature works on
paper, ethnographic and archaeological artifacts, scientific and
religious instruments, paintings, maps and charts, manuscripts and
rare books. These original objects will be complemented by
large-scale reproductions and interactive items. Admission is free.
March 2018 - December 2018 - San Antonio
Texas
A&M University San Antonio is celebrating the city’s
300th anniversary through its tricentennial themed exhibit entitled,
San Antonio as
a Crossroads: 300 Years of an Evolving Frontier Community.
The Tricentennial exhibit will explore San Antonio’s vibrant
history through photographs, artwork, maps, documents, artifacts and
ephemera to tell the story of an evolving frontier community as the
heart of the region. The exhibition is in the Presidio Gallery
located at the Bexar County Archives Building in the 120 block of
East Nueva.
March 1, 2018 - December 2018 - Reno, Nevada
If you've
been inside the Mathewson-IGT
Knowledge Center lately, 1664 N Virginia St,, you may have
wondered why there's a nearly full-size replica of the historic Reno
Arch in the main floor atrium. Like the original arch downtown, it's
a symbol of welcome. On May 9, 2018, Reno will turn 150, and this
momentous occasion has prompted the Special
Collections and University Archives Department of the University
of Nevada, Reno Libraries to launch a major exhibit in honor of the
city's sesquicentennial. Spanning all five floors of the building,
Reno
at the Crossroads: A Sesquicentennial Exhibit, 1868-2018
explores Reno's colorful evolution from its founding in 1868 to the
present through photographs, maps, documents, and objects. The scale
of this exhibit provides us with the exciting opportunity to expose
people at the University and throughout the community to many sides
of Reno they might not have known, and encourage them to learn more.
Most of it can be viewed during the open hours of the Mathewson-IGT
Knowledge Center.
March 3, 2018 - February 19, 2019 - Washington, Texas
The
Star of the Republic
Museum's new exhibit, So Others Could Follow: Four Centuries
of Maps That Define Texas, illustrates through maps the evolution
of Texas over four centuries, both topographically and politically,
under seven flags. The exhibit includes 20 maps spanning three
centuries from the most famous cartographers in the world. The maps
in the exhibit focus on the ever-changing shape of Texas in the years
from the early 1500s through the late 1800s, encompassing the years
before it was the Republic of Texas up to the days after it won
statehood in the United States and through the Civil War. Exhibit
highlights include maps that first mention Tejas (1721); Daniel
Lizars' map of Mexico and Central America, prior to Mexico's push for
independence (1833); the Republic of Texas from 1836-1845 when the
first Congress of Texas defined this nation's boundaries and 23
counties. A map from 1842 depicts towns, villages, forts, roads,
trails and Indian tribe locations, and a map from 1846 shows Texas
when it was admitted to the Union at the beginning of the U.S.
Mexican war.
March 7, 2018 - April 29, 2018 - Athens
The Benaki
Museum of Greek Culture (1 Koumbari & Vassilissis Sofias,
Kolonaki,) presents an exhibition — Travels
in Greece (15th-19th Century). It includes manuscripts, maps,
prints, photographs, drawings and documents, from the Efstathions
Finopoulos Collection which was donated to the museum and is one of
most important of its kind. The exhibition showcases rare editions,
manuscript maps, and drawings ranging from the arbitrary renderings
of early centuries to the accurate depictions of later years.
March 16, 2018 – June 10, 2018 - Bowlees, Newbiggin, Barnard Castle, United Kingdom An original example of a map produced by the 'Father of English Geology' has gone on display as part of a new exhibition. Visitors to Bowlees Visitor Centre, in Upper Teesdale, were the first to see geologist William Smith's map as part of a new geo-heritage project launched by the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership (North Pennines AONB). The travel map, which was produced in 1815, is at the centre of the AONB's Earthworks project. It is the world’s first countrywide geological map and often known as the map that changed the world as Smith, a surveyor and engineer, travelled the length and breadth of Britain collecting data to create “A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland.” The exhibition takes visitors through the evolution of geological mapping, from Smith’s ground-breaking work, to modern maps. Contact Bowlees Visitor Centre on 01833-622145 or email mandy(at)northpenninesaonb.org.uk for more information.
March 16, 2018 - May 11, 2018 - Delhi, New York
Drawing
the Line: Maps of Delaware County, an exhibit of historic maps,
can be seen at the Delaware County
Historical Association, 46549 State Hwy 10. This exhibit includes
a sampling of the Association's collection of maps from about 1800
through the 1960s. Surveyors’ tools will also be on display.
March 19, 2018 - April 18, 2018 - Bengaluru, India
India
has always been a diverse country, with a coming together of people,
culture, cuisine and history. But, this diversity didn’t just
happen overnight, and all of us didn’t just come together from
different parts of the globe or the country without a deeper
phenomenon at play. This meeting of diverse cultures was made
possible because of the ordinary map! They mapped India, gave Mahatma
Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru a country to fight for, and here we are
now, liberated and free. This latest collection showcased at the
Indian Institute of Science
called India
on our Mind is art gallery owner Prashnt Lahoti’s
collections of maps that were instituted to acquire, preserve,
interpret and share the spread of Indian civilisation’s
heritage across continents and cultures.
March 21, 2018 – May 26, 2018 - New York
Washington
Map Society member J. C. McElveen will be curating an exhibit of his
maps and books at the Grolier
Club, 47 East 60th Street, entitled “Westward the Course
of Empire” Exploring and Settling the American West. The
exhibit, in the 2nd
Floor Gallery, will feature some maps and travel narratives from
the 17th and 18th Centuries, but the focus of the exhibit will be on
exploring and mapping the American West in the 19th Century, from
Lewis & Clark to the Pacific Railroad Surveys. Hours: Monday –
Saturday 10 am to 5 pm. Exhibitions are open to the public free of
charge.
March 23, 2018 - June 2, 2018 - Abu Dhabi
Louvre
Abu Dhabi is set to open its second exhibition that explores
spherical representation of the world and its scientific instruments,
from antiquity to the present day. The exhibition, Globes: Visions
of the World is curated by Bibliothèque nationale de
France. The exhibition will display 160 works from the collections of
Bibliothèque nationale de France and outstanding loaned works.
More than 40 globes and spheres, rare archaeological remains,
magnificent scripts, astrolabes and splendid world maps are expected
to take visitors back to 2500 years of history of the world.
March 23, 2018 - May 9, 2018 – Florence Valletta Capitale d’Europa is the title of a specialised exhibition in the Sala dei Gigli in the town hall, the Palazzo Vecchio. The exhibition showcases Malta maps from the MUŻA cartographic collection including two of the Camocio Siege Maps that have just made it to the Unesco Memory of the World Register. The focused selection of maps on display present the story of Valletta, from the Great Siege of 1565 to its development into a fully fledged military fortress by the end of the 18th century.
March 24, 2018 - September 30, 2018 – Boston
Boston
boasts some of the nation’s most recognizable and cherished
green spaces, from Boston Common, to the Emerald Necklace, to
hundreds of neighborhood parks, playgrounds, tot lots, community
gardens, playing fields, cemeteries, and urban wilds. Breathing
Room: Mapping Boston’s Green Spaces can be seen in the
Norman B. Leventhal Map
Center at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St. In this
exhibition, you will learn how the country’s oldest public park
grew from a grazing pasture to an iconic recreational and social
center, how 19th-century reformers came to view parks as
environmental remedies for ill health, how innovative landscape
architects fashioned green oases in the midst of a booming
metropolis, and what the future holds for Boston’s open spaces.
March 26, 2018 - April 30, 2018 - Summerdale, Alabama
The
Marjorie Younce Snook
Public Library, 202 W Broadway Street, in conjunction with
Alabama’s 200 Bicentennial celebration, is exhibiting a
collection of maps of the state documenting its changes before and
after statehood was established. On loan from the Birmingham Public
Library, Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in Maps explores
450 years of Alabama history through more than 50 maps carefully
selected from the library’s world class cartography collection.
The exhibit is located in the events room of the Marjorie Younce
Snook Public Library, and will be open to the public during the
library’s normal business hours (Monday – Friday, 9 a.m.
- 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.).
March 28, 2018 - August 5, 2018 – Paris
L'épopée
du canal de Suez / Des pharaons au XXIe siècle [Suez Canal /
Forty centuries of epic since Pharaoh Sezostrees’s III time]
can be seen at Arab World
Institute, 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard. This exhibition
was tailored to celebrate the passing of 150 years since the
inauguration of the Suez Canal. Included are 170 pieces that depict
the Suez Canal’s story from Sezostrees III era to date. The
exhibition contains manuscripts, maps, models, miniatures, rare
films, art paintings, and old newspaper clippings.
April 2018 - August 2018 – Washington
Breaking
News: Alexander Hamilton, a text-based exhibition at the
George Washington University
Museum, 701 21st St NW, captures some of the 18th-century
parlance that sparked Lin-Manuel Miranda’s word-drunk show.
Assembled primarily from Antonia M. Chambers’s private
collection, Breaking News includes 18 newspapers and pamphlets
— including “The American Museum” — published
in or just after Hamilton’s lifetime. These are supplemented
with maps and historical information. Among the maps on display is a
copy (from the GWU Museum’s holdings) of the 1790 street plan
for Washington devised by Pierre “Peter” L’Enfant.
April 5-11, 2018 - Prague
An
exhibition in Prague's National Technical Museum will present unique
ancient documents and Czech collection items that were recently put
on the UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, such as the Kynzvart
daguerreotype, the Janacek archive and the Camocio maps collection.
The Czech-Maltese Camocio maps collection highlights the Great Siege
of Malta in 1565. According to experts, it is the only issue
preserved in Euro-American collections. It helped experts reconstruct
the whole cycle of combat reports from the crucial battle of Malta
after 450 years. The collection of the maps, whose author was
Giovanni Francesco Camocio (1501-1575), is kept by the Charles
University's Faculty of Sciences.
April 6, 2018 - May 5, 2016 – Seoul
Yongsan:
The Unreachable Land, a new exhibit at the Yongsan
War Memorial, 29 Itaewon-ro, Namyeong-dong, Yongsan-gu, provides
a catch-up lesson on the more than a century of history most Koreans
have missed out on, and gives a sneak preview of what's on the other
side of those concertina-wire-topped walls. The exhibit documents
past history through maps and images dating back to Joseon, as well
as showing what's to come, but it doesn't leave out the legacy built
here.
April 17, 2018 - May 1, 2018 - Doha
The first Qatar
National Library Heritage Library exhibition will display a wide
range of items from the collection that illustrate the spread of
ideas throughout the Islamic world, as well as documenting
interaction between Arabs and the West through the centuries. The
exhibition
features books, manuscripts, maps, globes, and travelers’
instruments, telling the story of Qatar, along with the history of
science, literature, women, writing, travel, and religions in the
region.
April 20, 2018 - May 4, 2018 - College Station, Texas
Texas
A&M Libraries obtained a rare map of Texas made by Stephen F
Austin himself. According to researchers at Texas A&M, the map
was printed in 1830 and is the first map of Texas printed in the
United States, and the second map ever printed depicting the state.
The map shows many of the colonies, such as Austin colony, that
existed during the time period. The map will be shown in the Cushing
Memorial Library & Archives, 400 Spence St., every Monday
through Friday from 8 am to 6 pm.
April 27, 2018 - August 28, 2018 – London
James
Cook: The Voyages can be seen in PACCAR Gallery, The
British Library, 96 Euston Road. To mark 250 years since Captain
James Cook’s ship Endeavour set sail from Plymouth, the
exhibition will tell the story of Cook’s three great voyages
through original documents, many of which were produced by the
artists, scientists and seamen on board the ship. From Cook’s
journal detailing the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle to
handwritten log books, stunning artwork and intricate maps, chart the
voyages, which spanned more than a decade, and explore the
experiences of people on the ship and in the places visited. Our
collection of original maps, artworks and journals from the voyages,
alongside rare printed books and newly commissioned videos, seek to
shed new light on the encounters that completed the outline of the
known world and formed the starting point for two centuries of
globalisation.
May 1, 2018 - May 27, 2019 – Washington
Postmen
of the Skies, at the Smithsonian’s National
Postal Museum, 2 Massachusetts Ave. N.E., celebrates the 100th
anniversary of the first regularly scheduled airmail flights. The
exhibition invites visitors to step into the exciting and memorable
stories of the airmail pilots whose pioneering flights set the stage
for today’s advanced airmail system and commercial aviation.
Pilot goggles, leggings, helmets and logbooks, along with route maps,
telegrams and airmail-related pop culture artifacts, will invite
visitors to witness and experience the birth of commercial aviation.
Visitors will also experience rare historic photos and see an
archival “you-are-there” video that tells the story of
the origins of airmail. In 1918, the first regularly scheduled
airmail service began operations.
May 9, 2018 - September 3, 2018 – Washington
The
first major traveling exhibition dedicated to the arts of the Swahili
Coast, World
on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean can be
seen at the Smithsonian's National
Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue, SW. The
exhibition presents more than 160 artworks brought together from
public and private collections from four continents. These works
reflect on the diverse interchanges breaking the barriers between
Africa and Asia in a space that physically connects the Smithsonian's
African and Asian art museums. The exhibition features a range of
works from intimate pieces of jewelry to impressive architectural
elements including exquisitely illuminated Qur'ans, carved doorposts,
furniture, maps, and other works. These works are recognized for not
only their artistic excellence, but also how they visualize
wide-reaching networks of mobility and encounter.
May 16, 2018 - September 3, 2018 – Paris
The
National
Museum of Asian Arts - Guimet, 6, place d’Iéna, is
offering for the first time a cartographic exhibition, Le
monde vu d’Asie, that tells another story of the world,
fully embracing the Asian point of view. The masterpieces, famous or
unpublished, testify to the richness of the different traditions
(China, Japan, Korea, India, Vietnam, etc.) and the fruitful
exchanges between the different Asian regions; as well as between
Asia and France and the rest of the world. These maps and
iconographic representations (paintings, engravings, manuscripts or
objects), often relegated to the status of exotic documents, appear
here as true works of art and precious historical sources, which shed
light on the decisive role of Asia in the process of globalization
from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. They show the
cosmographic constructions, pilgrimage routes, discovery routes,
imperial gestures, urban projects, and colonial expansions, all
cultural phenomena and social practices involved in the invention of
Asia, which yesterday as today, is at the center of the world.
May 19, 2018 - September 30, 2018 - Mystic, Connecticut
Mystic
Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave, announces its exhibit The
Vikings Begin: Treasures from Uppsala University, Sweden. Joining
The Vikings Begin will be an exhibition featuring the Vinland
Map, a document that ignited a controversy in 1965 as it
purported to prove the Vikings reached the New World long before
Christopher Columbus. Is the map legitimate? Experts conclude it is
not, but it still has a lot to tell us about issues of authenticity
and the origins of modern America. This exhibition will place the
Vinland Map on display in the U.S. for the first time in more than 50
years, allowing those who have followed the saga to see its primary
evidence for the first time. This exhibition is made possible in
collaboration with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University.
May 19, 2018 - March 17, 2019 - St. Michaels,
Maryland
Exploring
the Chesapeake–Mapping the Bay, a new exhibition at the
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 213
North Talbot Street, looks at the different ways the Chesapeake Bay
has been portrayed over time through mapping and charting. The
exhibition will view changes in maps over time as an expression of
what people were seeking in the Chesapeake—for natural
resources, for safe passage, or for commercial opportunities. The
exploration begins with European exploration in the 16th century, and
continues with the growth of settlement in the region in the 17th and
18th centuries. Scientific surveying methods brought improved
accuracy in the 19th century, and special purpose maps showing
railroads or tourist routes and destinations proliferated in the 20th
century. More recent decades have introduced satellite imagery,
geographic information systems, and Google maps, which continue to
change how we view and understand the Chesapeake Bay region.
June 1, 2018 - October 28, 2018 – Oxford
Tolkien:
Maker of Middle-earth, an exhibition at Bodleian’s Weston
Library,will explore the power of the author’s literary
imagination. This free Bodleian exhibition will feature manuscripts,
artwork, maps and letters from the Bodleian’s extensive Tolkien
Archive, artifacts from the Tolkien Collection at Marquette
University in the USA and from private collections; bringing them
together in the city where Tolkien wrote his most famous works.
September 2018 - December 2018 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
The
Mercatormuseum,
Grote Markt 1, has an exhibition The Dutch conquer the World.
The exhibition is curated by Stanislas De Peuter, and additional
details will be announced.
October 18, 2018 - November 17, 2018 - Hong Kong
A
special map and chart exhibition, curated by Mr. K.L. Tam (Board
member, Hong Kong Maritime Museum) will be held at Hong
Kong Maritime Museum.