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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 – 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 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. Check the website
for current operating hours. 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 – 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 - 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 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
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 –
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 28, 2019 - Indefinite -
Windsor, Ontario
The Chimczuk
Museum, 401 Riverside Drive West, has over 600 historic maps in
its archival collection. These maps include original, hand-copied and
mechanically-reproduced publications dating from the early 17th
century to the early 21st century. Navigating
Our Way – Maps of Windsor and Essex County will
highlight an extensive selection of maps, many of which will be on
display for the first time.
February 14, 2020 –
February 12, 2023 – Oakland
We all use maps in our
everyday lives—to navigate public transportation, find places
to eat, and visualize big data like weather patterns or political
opinions. But have you ever considered the deeper stories maps tell
us? In You
Are Here: California Stories on the Map, you’ll
discover there’s more to maps than meets the eye. Showcasing a
diverse range of maps from Oakland, the Bay Area, and California—from
environmental surroundings and health conditions to community
perspectives and creative artworks—experience how maps can be a
powerful tool to share unique points of view and imagine a better
future. Explore new perspectives of familiar places through maps made
by the community, and mark your own stories on the community map
inside the exhibition. The exhibit encompasses more than 50 maps
divided with segmented focus on climate change, nature, public
health, community projects, and maps from a personal perspective. It
can be viewed in Oakland Museum of
California, 1000 Oak St.
September 4, 2021 - September
2022 - 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 28, 2022 - December 31,
2022 - Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Moravian
Historical Society is pleased to announce the opening of our
newest exhibition Charting
the Unknown: Early Moravian Maps. Through archival documents,
historic maps, and objects from the collection of the Moravian
Historical Society, visitors will be taken on a journey through the
fertile lands of the Pennsylvanian frontier. The exhibition explores
surveying techniques, the conflicts between indigenous communities
and Europeans, and the Moravian contributions to surveying, early
cartography, and town planning. The Moravian Historical Society’s
Whitefield House museum is open daily from 1:00–4:00 p.m. and
is located at 214 East Center Street.
March 18, 2022 - December 28, 2022 – Boston The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St.,will have a major new exhibition More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape. In this exhibition, we’ll be exploring how maps and geography provide a way of understanding how the control of nature has intertwined with struggles for justice. Some of these stories date from a period far earlier than modern environmentalism, like the 1684 deed in which white settlers officialized their taking of what is now East Boston as private property, or the 1878 map of “offensive odors” which shows how Boston began filling in estuaries in order to please the senses of elite neighborhoods like the Back Bay. We'll be working with both historical and modern maps to examine how to look at environmental protection and social justice as twin issues.
March 26, 2022 - October 23, 2022
- Albany, New York
The idea for this exhibition, You
Are Here: Mapping Our World, originated in 2021 when the
Albany Institute of
History & Art received twenty historic maps from donor Rachel
Lee. Lee's husband, Michael Insel (1947-2017), enjoyed collecting and
displaying maps that showed the Hudson Valley, and particularly the
village of Kinderhook, New York, the community where the couple
maintained a weekend residence. Michael's collection of maps allowed
the couple to locate their geographic place in the world across four
centuries of cartographic history. Seventeen of those maps are
included in this exhibition, along with maps, globes, books, and
historic objects that were already part of the Institute's
collection.
April 5, 2022 - September 25,
2022 – Münster
The Dutch copper engraver Remigius
Hogenberg produced an engraving showing the cityscape of Münster.
And he gave the council on May 26, 1570 a proof of the work just
completed. The only surviving print of this copper engraving, which
is kept in the British Library in London, is now being returned to
Münster for the exhibition Münster
1570 – Geschichte und Geschichten aus der Hauptstadt Westfalens
[Münster 1570 - history and stories from the capital of
Westphalia] which is being held in Stadtmuseum
Münster, Salzstraße 28. In addition, the museum shows
the original manuscript by Hermann Kerssenbroick, then head of the
Münster Cathedral School, which has been lost for more than 400
years. He also portrayed the "capital of Westphalia"
vividly: in the manuscript created between 1566 and 1573.
April 9, 2022 - November 27, 2022
- Kingston, New Jersey
Kingston:
On The Map will be exhibited from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays
and Sundays in the History Room at the D&R
Canal Locktender’s House, on old Lincoln Highway off Route
27. The display uses journal entries and prints of a dozen historical
maps to illustrate Kingston’s evolution, from settlement to
commercial center to modern community. One map shows how Kingston
moved between the colonies of east and west New Jersey. Another shows
both Kingston and Princeton divided by county lines.
April 11, 2022 - October 26, 2022
– London
The exhibition, Magnificent
Maps of London, will be at the London
Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road. It will be open
Monday to Thursday 10am – 4pm and entry is free. The Civitas
Londinium, also known as the Woodcut or Agas map, was made by an
unnamed map maker in the 1570s and gives a unique bird’s eye
view of London, across the Thames from Southwark towards the hills of
Hampstead and Highgate. This very rare opportunity to see one of only
three known copies of the map will transport visitors to the streets
(and fields) of Tudor London. The exhibition also includes maps
created in the 19th-century showing the spread of then fatal diseases
like typhoid, cholera and smallpox, which inflicted terrible loss of
life in Victorian London. The exhibition will also include work by
Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, John Rocque, John Ogilby and William
Morgan, Richard Horwood, and Christopher and John Greenwood.
June 4, 2022 - September 11, 2022
– Sint-Niklaas
The urge to explore and understand the
world is one of the most fundamental human qualities. Nowhere do we
see this more clearly than in the history of navigation. Mankind,
driven by economic, political, scientific and religious factors, has
explored the seas for centuries. From the Minoans in the
Mediterranean to the Vikings in the north and the Polynesians with
their stick charts to today's cutting-edge satellite technology, the
ingenuity and courage of the sailors continues to capture the
imagination. The exhibition Right
through the sea. Navigating from 1500 to Today tells the
story of five centuries at sea with an ever-growing knowledge of
cartography, geography and astronomy. This exhibition, which covers
almost 1,200 m² at at the Stem
and the Mercator
Museum, will guide you through time. Animations, replicas and
interactive screens will immerse you in the atmosphere of shipping.
Highlights of the exhibit include handwritten manuscripts and
portolan maps, a partially recreated ship's bridge from a historic
naval vessel, the world's oldest Sanskrit astrolabe, handcrafted
curiosities from bored crew members on board, and one of the largest
private collections of sextants.
June 15, 2022 – October 11,
2022 – Portland, Maine
The
Osher Map Library and Smith
Center for Cartographic Education is announces our summer exhibit
Vacationland: Mapping Tourism
in Maine. The narrative structure of Vacationland looks at
tourism through the lens of travel and transportation, quite
literally the mapping of tourism in Maine from the mid-19th century
to the mid-20th century. This exhibition invites you to think about
the changing landscape interventions created by and for tourists, as
well as the impact such changes had on people living in Maine year
round, and upon the environment.To book your timed ticket, please
click
here. Please enter the Glickman Family Library and proceed
through the arcade to the Osher Map Library reference room and
gallery entrance at 314 Forest Ave.
June 29, 2022 – October 30,
2022 - Cotuit, Massachusetts
Intricately carved designs fill
most of the galleries at the Cahoon
Museum of American Art, 4676 Falmouth Rd, as the major new
exhibition Scrimshaw:
The Whaler’s Art displays more than 250 pieces loaned
from 15 private New England collections and seven museums in four
states. The exhibit presents an array of carved objects both
practical and decorative, including baskets, boxes, tools, fashion
accessories, walking sticks and utensils. There are also rare
examples of carved ornamental keepsakes depicting maps, portraits,
domestic scenes and patriotic images; detailed portrayals of sailing
vessels; and engravings of whaling scenes.
July 3, 2022 - June 24, 2023 -
Montpelier, Vermont
The Vermont
Historical Society is pleased to announce that it will open a new
exhibit about Vermont cartographer James Wilson, A
New American Globe: Geography, Identity, and Craft in Early Vermont,
at the Vermont History
Museum, 109 State St. The exhibit will provide a new look at
Wilson and his impact on the field of cartography in the United
States. This exhibit reexamines Wilson’s life and career, with
new scholarship led by the Vermont Historical Society to better
understand his place in history. Along the way, the exhibit will put
a particular focus on the role that maps provide in our lives, and
how names hold a particular power over the locations that they
signify. The exhibit will feature three of Wilson’s globes: one
16 inch terrestrial globe manufactured between 1810 and 1818 in
Bradford, Vermont, and two 13-inch globes from 1831 and manufactured
in Albany, New York. The exhibit additionally will feature a number
of items from the Vermont Historical Society’s collection
related to cartography, including surveying equipment, maps (of all
types and materials), and more.
July 9, 2022 - October 1, 2022 -
Wichita Falls, Texas
With Midwestern State University marking
its centennial, Tracee Robertson, director of the Wichita
Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas, wondered what the museum could
do to be part of the celebration. museum staff gathered pieces of
collections from the Moffett Library and the individual colleges. The
exhibition, Belong,
Connect, Discover: 100 Years of MSU Texas Treasures, was
created. Moffett Library has loaned maps from the Forrest D. Monahan
Collection. The former MSU Texas history professor collected more
than 500 railroad maps, guides, photographs, journals and books about
the American railroad system.
July 22, 2022 - January 8, 2023 -
New Haven
The exhibition The
World in Maps, 1400-1600 presents many of the most
historically significant manuscript maps from the late medieval and
early modern period from the Beinecke Library’s vast collection
of maps. It is focused on portolan charts - large, colorful charts
that showed the shoreline of the Mediterranean, and were used by
sailors to navigate from port to port. The flat display cases on the
ground floor of the historic Beinecke
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., enable us to
show twelve large maps alongside one another to allow the viewer to
make comparisons between maps made at various periods and times in
the crucial years surrounding the discovery, from the European
perspective, of the new world.
August 8, 2022 – September
30, 2022 – London
Lambeth
Palace’s newish library building currently has an
exhibition of old maps. Layers
of Lambeth: A look at the collections shows how this part of
London developed over the centuries. The collection ranges from the
17th to 19th century, from when all around here were fields through
the arrival of the railways to modern social planning maps. The
development of Lambeth Palace and its estates is also featured from
woods in Camberwell to Timber yards in Waterloo. As an exhibition,
it’s a good mix of documents and gives fresh insights into the
area. It’s also a good excuse to visit the Archbishop of
Canterbury’s new library building at 15 Lambeth Palace Road.
August 25, 2022 - December 9,
2022 - College Station, Texas
One of the only pristine
historical maps of Texas now resides at Texas A&M University’s
Cushing Memorial Library
and Archives, 400 Spence St. Among the collection is Stephen F.
Austin’s 1830 Map of Texas, a landmark piece of Texas and
cartographic history as the first map of Texas to be printed in the
United States by H.S. Tanner and the second map of Texas ever to be
printed – the first being printed in Mexico City. This map,
among others, will be on display as part of the exhibit Charting
Texas – A History of the State Through Maps.
August 25, 2022 – March 11,
2023 - San Francisco
Mapping
a Changing California: Selections from the Seventeenth to the
Twentieth Century at
the California
Historical Society, 678 Mission St., shows how the history of
cartography is intertwined with the formation of California as a
sub-nation of almost 40 million inhabitants. Maps, in short, didn’t
just lay out this topologically weird state. They all but created it.
An exhibit about surveying the land, laying claim to it and,
ultimately marketing it, the show includes everything from
geographically dubious illustrations from Junipero Serra’s era
to maps of ghost towns to mid-’60s guides to Disneyland
attractions. The Gulf of California might not extend to the Oregon
border, but this fake island has a lot going for it—with the
acknowledgment that the discipline of cartography grew out of
imperialism.
September 7-21, 2022 –
London
The Royal Institute of
Navigation's 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Waves
of Navigation, is at Royal Geographical Society Pavilion, 1
Kensington Gore. Showcasing highlights from RIN's archival history,
the people behind key developments and a timeline of radio
navigation, Waves of Navigation also looks forward, asking
timely questions about global challenges and sustainability in the
21st century.
September 16, 2022 - October 22,
2022 – Bucharest
From
Ţepeş to Brâncuşi – 5 centuries of history
and culture in the Romanian space is an exhibition of more
than 350 maps, books, manuscripts and rare images about the history
and culture of the Romanians. It can be seen at ARCUB
- Hanul Gabroveni, Str. Lipscani no. 84-90, in one of the most
original and ambitious private exhibition projects in our country.
The exhibition illustrates the history, culture and "Romanity of
the Romanians" throughout the last five centuries (end of the
15th century - beginning of the 20th century) in original and
original forms, including a map of Dacia from the 15th century.
September 16, 2022 - February 4,
2023 - Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
From the copper mines
of the Boundary District through to the coalfields of the Crowsnest,
railways shaped the development of social, political, and economic
life in the Kootenays. As the various and competing rail lines
created a vast transportation network that connected east to west, it
also brought calamity – cutting through Indigenous territories,
causing environmental distress, and exploiting First Nations people
and Chinese immigrants in work camps. Back on Track, the
latest history exhibition at the Touchstones
Nelson Museum, 502 Vernon Street, explores both the vast
opportunities and the detrimental practices that accompanied the
expansion of the railways in the west. The exhibition features
artifacts, photographs, maps, and other documents from museums,
archives, and individuals around the region and beyond.
September 20, 2022 - December 20,
2022 – Macau
The Macau
University of Science and Technology Library opened its Macau
exhibition of ancient maps, showcasing historical records that
contribute to the study of Macau history. The exhibition is divided
into six parts, including Chinese maps of Macau, early Portuguese
maps of Macau, Macau maps drawn in the Netherlands in the 17th
century, Macau maps drawn by Western countries in the 18th century,
Macau maps made before and after the Opium War, and a modern map of
Macau. maps of Macau, early Portuguese maps of Macau, Macau maps
drawn in the Netherlands in the 17th century, Macau maps drawn by
Western countries in the 18th century, Macau maps made before and
after the Opium War, and a modern map of Macau.