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 - 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.
April 2014 – November 4, 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.
July 1, 2017 – December 31, 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.
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.
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.
April 26, 2018 - April 2019 – Madrid
The
exhibition De Iberia a España a través de los mapas
can be seen in the library of the Instituto
Geográfico Nacional, Calle del Gral. Ibáñez
de Ibero, 3.
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 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.
May 23, 2018 - December 31, 2018 – Prague
The
Geographical Institute of the Faculty of Science of Charles
University, Geographical
Library and Map Collection, Albertov 6, have the honor to invite
you to the exhibition Mikuláš
Kladyán: first map of Bohemia 1518. This, the first
separate detailed map of Bohemia, was published in Nuremberg.
Unfortunately, the title of the map or the first line did not
survive. It is possible that the Czech states ordered it to display
the conditions in the country after the Saint-Wenceslas Treaty of
1517.The exhibition is open Monday to Friday (except holidays)
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Admission is free.
August 17, 2018 - November 6,
2018 - Thousand Oaks, California
Both the science and art of
maps are highlighted in the collection of a local resident, Ernst F.
Tonsing, on exhibit at California
Lutheran University. Mapping
Meaning: Adventures in Cartography will be on display in the
William Rolland
Gallery of Fine Art. This exhibit presents a variety of maps and
ways of reading them, along with cultural objects from the times of
their creation. Works date from the 16th century to the present,
including a collection focusing on Scandinavia, a depiction of
California as an island, and maps of the heavens. The gallery is open
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Saturday. It is located in William Rolland Stadium on the north side
of Olsen Road between Campus Drive and Mountclef Boulevard.
August 20, 2018 - November 16, 2018 - Staunton, Virginia
The
walls of the History Gallery at the
R. R. Smith Center for History & Art, 20 S. New Street, are
adorned with dozens of 17th century, copper-engraved and beautifully
hand colored maps of France – a tribute to the important
influence that France has had on Virginia wine and cheese production.
Curated by Scott Ballin and hosted by the Augusta County Historical
Society, the exhibit entitled Vive
La France includes more than two dozen of the beautiful maps,
many from the noted Blaeu Family “Grand Atlas,” with some
from other noted 17th Century cartographers.
September 1, 2018 - 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.
September 8, 2018 - November 9, 2018 - Janville, Eure-et-Loir,
France
About 50 km to the south-west of Paris begins a vast
plain devoted mainly to an intensive cereal production. Three times
as large as the Duchy of Luxembourg, it is bound roughly by the
cities of Chartres in the north and the Loire River, with Orléans
and Blois in the south. Although it never enjoyed the status of a
royal domain, its importance was recognized on the first map of
modern France, the Gallia Novella by Francesco Berlinghieri (Florence
1482), and it has ever since been recorded on maps of France and its
provinces. About a dozen maps dedicated to that region by French and
Dutch mapmakers are on record from the end of the sixteenth to the
beginning of the eighteenth centuries. In 1790, with the French
revolution, the regions of the ancient regime were absorbed into the
newly created 83 Departments. Horizons de la Beauce – Cartes
géographiques de l’ancien Grenier de la France [Horizons
of the Beauce – Ancient Maps of the former Granary of France]
brings together, for the first time, about fifty maps of Beauce and
surrounding provinces from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth
century. The maps document the historical evolution of this
little-known area in terms of topography and human environment. Some
surveyors’ instruments and other cartographic items complete
the display. A catalogue, in French, is available. Venue is
Médiathèque
Etude, 16 rue du Cheval Bardé.
September 15, 2018 - December 16, 2018 - Sint-Niklaas,
Belgium
The Mercatormuseum,
Zamanstraat 49, has an exhibition De
Republiek boetseert de Wereld [The Dutch color the World]
which is curated by Stanislas De Peuter. The following three parts
form the basis of this exposition:
- the search for the spices
(the exploration of the "five" waterways);
- the Dutch
follow the Portuguese: the story of the VOC;
- the 17th century
Dutch cartography of the known continents.
Many maps will be shown
in reflection, such as historical maps of New England and the three
most important maps of Magellanica. Also shown at this exhibition are
the four fabulous Peutinger-Ortelius maps of the antique world.
September 17, 2018 - January 18, 2019 - Arlington,
Texas
Special
Collections, Sixth Floor, University of Texas Arlington Central
Library has an exhibition Paths to Highways: Routes of
Exploration, Settlement and Commerce.
September 21, 2018 - January 21,
2019 - San Antonio
While San Antonio’s streets, city
boundaries and population have grown tremendously since 1885, the
basic makeup of its major downtown streets remains largely the same.
See how the city looked over 130 years ago in maps on view as part of
the Briscoe Western Art
Museum’s Destino
San Antonio. Along with maps, the exhibition includes 80-plus
stereographs from the museum’s collection that show places and
scenes from daily life in the Alamo City from the 1860s to the 1930s.
Museum is at 210 W. Market St.
September 25, 2018 - December 4,
2018 - Brussels, Belgium
The Royal
Library of Belgium will be exhibiting "the most expensive"
atlas of the 17th century: The
Atlas Major by Joan Blaeu.
September 28, 2018 –
December 31, 2018 – Chicago
Whatever budgetary qualms
Chicago may have had about putting on the World's Columbian
Exposition in 1893, it is by now, safe to say that the city got its
money’s worth. Pictures
from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World’s Fair,
is a fascinating exhibition at the Newberry Library, 30 W. Walton
St., that mines the research institution’s archives to display
maps, postcards, artwork and other fair-related items.
October 5, 2018 - January 20,
2019 – Paris
At a time when there is talk about how
Syria could be divided into zones of influence between Russia and
United States, the authentic document of a secret agreement signed
during World War I dividing the Middle East among European powers
will be exhibited at the Musee
de l’Armee, 129 Rue de Grenelle. Called A
l’est la guerre sans fin 1918-1923 [In the east war without
end], the exhibition comprises over 250 items from 15
countries that include documents, treaties, as well as maps that have
shaped Europe after World War I. It has been organized to mark 100
years since the end of the First World War. In addition to the Sykes
Picot agreement, the secret accord between France and the United
Kingdom for the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, the ratification
letter of the Treaty of Lausanne by the newly founded Turkish
Republic will also be exhibited.
October 5, 2018 - January 2, 2019
- Santa Barbara, California
The John and Peggy Maximus Gallery
at the Santa Barbara Museum of
Natural History, 2559 Puesta Del Sol, will exhibit antique maps
and books from the 17th-19th centuries in a show titled The
Kingdom of California; Mapping the Pacific Coast in the Age of
Exploration. The Kingdom of California offers stories
of early mapping of the Pacific Coast told through antique maps on
loan from La Jolla Map and Atlas Museum, the Santa Barbara Mission
Archive-Library, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s
Rare Book Collection.
October 6, 2018 - April 22, 2019
- Hampton, Virginia
Civil
War Journey is an extraordinary touring exhibition organized
by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. The exhibition can
be seen in Hampton
History Museum, 120 Old Hampton Lane. Eyewitness accounts and
images from the Civil War memoir of Union soldier, cartographer, and
Confederate prisoner of war Robert Knox Sneden are showcased in an
exhibition of 45 watercolor maps and drawings that provide a unique
and mesmerizing perspective on the Civil War. Serving as a
cartographer for the Army of the Potomac, Sneden was captured by John
S. Mosby’s troops at Brandy Station but continued to make
clandestine drawings while held in the notorious Andersonville Prison
as a Confederate prisoner of war.
October 9, 2018 - March 16, 2019
– Baltimore
The Johns Hopkins George
Peabody Library, 17 East Mount Vernon Place, has just opened a
new exhibit, Maryland,
from the Willard Hackerman Map Collection. From colonial
impressions of the Chesapeake Bay to detailed city plans for guiding
Baltimore's rapid expansion, this exhibition features over 30 of the
most stunning and historically significant maps of early Maryland.
Drawn from the personal collection of the late Baltimore developer,
philanthropist, and Johns Hopkins alumnus Willard Hackerman, Engr
1938, the maps are brought together with related rare books, objects,
and digital "story maps" to reveal the passion of a
collector, the early mapping of Maryland, and the potential of
combining historical maps with modern data to re-examine the past.
October 9, 2018 - April 20, 2019
– Boston
An artist’s inspiration arises from
internal and external sources, perceived and unconscious. When maps
are one of those sources, artists can access and subvert the power
and meaning of cartographic formats and geographic concepts. With
these tools, artists explore worlds of personal emotions, ideas,
memories, and places beyond the geographic documentation created by
conventional mapmakers. The exhibition Crossing
Boundaries: Art // Maps compares contemporary works of art
with maps spanning six centuries. These juxtapositions aim to create
a dialogue that can illuminate the crossing of the traditional
boundaries of art and maps, and stimulate fresh appreciation of both
media. This exhibition will be on display in the Norman
B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston St.
October 10, 2018 - April 13, 2019
– Philadelphia
Philadelphia:
The Changing City is an exhibition that analyzes
Philadelphia's growth across more than three centuries. Displayed are
more than 80 rare and revelatory prints, photographs, documents, and
maps from the Free Library of Philadelphia's Special Collections and
Research Departments. The exhibit will be on view in the Parkway
Central Library, 1901 Vine St, third-floor William B. Dietrich
Gallery. The Changing City will illustrate and discuss
Philadelphia’s origin as a carefully laid-out grid of streets
and squares set between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers; its
distinctions as "a city of homes" and "a city of
neighborhoods"; its role as a living laboratory for
city-planning, urban-renewal, and historic preservation; and its
recent history as a once-declining city experiencing a dramatic
renaissance marked by an influx of new residents and businesses,
booming tourism, and growing educational, health, and cultural
institutions while struggling with persisting poverty, new tensions
around gentrification, and an aging infrastructure.
October 11, 2018 - September 8,
2019 - New York
A new exhibit at the New
York Transit Museum is sure to pique the interest of map
enthusiasts and history buffs alike. The Navigating
New York exhibit in the Downtown Brooklyn museum, 99
Schermerhorn Street, highlights the city’s transit history
through the lens of maps dating to the 19th Century. Through a
collection of transit maps, railroad and ferry routes, biking and
walking paths and other materials like guidebooks, the exhibit seeks
to highlight the link between the city’s increased development
and the interconnectivity of its transit systems.
October 16, 2018 - December 23,
2018 - Washington
Eye
of the Bird: Visions and Views of D.C.'s Past can be seen in
George Washington University
Museum, 701 21st Street NW. In addition to two new bird’s
eye paintings of the District, there are several printed bird’s
eye views, and maps on display.
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.
October 20, 2018 - April 28, 2019
- Ditchling, East Sussex
Ditchling
Museum of Art + Craft will celebrate the forgotten work of
Brighton-born MacDonald (Max) Gill. The museum says that Gill’s
work was once prominently in the public eye, particularly his
brightly-coloured pictorial maps, graphic designs for book covers,
and posters for transport and communications companies in the first
half of the twentieth century. The exhibition, Max
Gill: Wonderground Man, will witness the artist’s
humorous work, noted for its distinctive Art Deco and tones. Gill’s
“Wonderground Map” (1914) was hung at every London
Underground station. Gill’s work caught the eye of London
Underground titan Frank Pick, who commissioned him to create
promotional transport maps, including an early version of the “London
Underground” system map (1922), London “Underground Bus
Services Map” (1928), as well as “Theatreland, Peter Pan
Map” and, of course, “Wonderground.”
October 20, 2018 - March 2019 -
Lewisburg, West Virginia
The Greenbrier Historical Society has
an exhibit at the North
House Museum, 814 W Washington St: James
Wilson, America's First Terrestrial and Celestial Globe Maker.
Wilson was a self-taught globe maker from New Hampshire. Wilson and
three of his sons operated two manufacturing plants in Bradford, Vt.,
and Albany, N.Y. After just a few years of operation they were able
to outsell the European globe makers who dominated the American
market until then. It's a real American success story. The exhibit
will include the historical society’s original, fully restored
Wilson terrestrial globe. Another unusual exhibit item is the first
map made and engraved in America. Printed in 1794, it is a map of
Virginia by Samuel Lewis.
May 2019 – November 2019 -
Boston
The Norman
B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston St., has an exhibition The
U.S. Pushes Westward: Mapping America 1800-1862.
July 5, 2019 - November 2019 –
Oxford
Talking Maps is the summer exhibition at Weston
Library, University of Oxford. Additional details from Nick
Millea <nick.millea(at)bodleian.ox.ac.uk>.
November 2019 – May 2020 -
Boston
The Norman
B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston St., has an exhibition Homesteads
to Modern Cities: Mapping America 1862-1900.