To learn more about non-current maps see Map
History / History of Cartography.
Meeting announcements can
be found at Cartography - Calendar of Meetings
and Events.
Click here for archive
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.
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 –
February 2023 - 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.
February 22, 2022 – July 7,
2023 – Seville
The first circumnavigation of the world,
which began in 1519 and ended in 1522, is the greatest exploratory
feat in history, which can be compared with more recent milestones
such as the arrival on the Moon. Maps
and the first circumnavigation of the world / The expedition of
Magellan and Elcano shows a cartographic tour of interesting
aspects of the trip: its background, preparations, development and
consequences. Starting from the geographical concepts of the
ancients, we will go through the unexpected discovery of the American
continent, the Tordesillas treaty by which Spain and Portugal shared
the world, the cartographic espionage between the two Iberian powers,
the spice trade as a real objective of the expedition or the first
maps of the Strait of Magellan and the Moluccas Islands, all set in
Spain in the 16th century. Exhibition can be viewed in Museo
Casa de la Ciencia, Av. de María Luisa.
April 11, 2022 – March 29,
2023 – 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.
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 20, 2022 – March 2023
- East Molesey, Surrey
In the early days of formal education,
embroidery substituted for reading, writing and maths, so we see the
use of "Map Samplers" in which girls learned writing and
geography as well as embroidery. A
Girl's Education in Stitch, an exhibition of the Royal School
of Needlework can be visited in Hampton
Court Palace.
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 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 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 23, 2022 - June 23,
2023 – Berkeley
Containing items ranging from handmade
Indigenous maps to those based on works of fiction, Bancroft
Library’s newest cartography exhibit brings a rich breadth
of treasures for public display. The exhibit, Visualizing
Place: Maps from The Bancroft Library, will be on display in
the Bancroft Gallery. While the exhibit contains maps from around the
world, there are many maps of the Bay Area and Mexico. One of the
exhibit’s highlights is a hand-drawn 1776 watercolor map of San
Francisco — one of the earliest maps of its kind.
September 28, 2022 - February 5,
2023 - Toledo, Spain
The exhibition Cities
of the world. views and plans brings together a careful
selection of views and plans of world cities throughout history, with
the purpose that Georg Braun summarized in the prologue to his
monumental "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" at the end of the
16th century: "What would be more pleasant than In the safety of
our homes, without fear of danger, to be able to contemplate in these
books the shape of the entire earth we inhabit, adorned with the
splendor of its various regions, rivers, cities, and fortresses?"
Exhibition can be seen at Museo
de Santa Cruz, Sala de exposiciones temporales C/ Cervantes, 3.
October 1, 2022 - January 14,
2023 – Arlington
The University
of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special
Collections presents what promises to be an exciting and
provocative exhibit titled The
Shifting Shapes of Early Texas which will feature some
highlights from its extensive collections of maps, prints, and
manuscripts. Beginning with the earliest European and Indigenous
contacts in the land that became Texas, the exhibit will use some
iconic pieces of paper Texana to explore how concepts of the
environment and its people were in constant flux over time.
October 21, 2022 - October 29,
2023 – Leiden
Are maps really that truthful or is there
sometimes a different message than you initially perceive? A map is
always a simplification of reality, where it is reduced, distorted
and selected. This allows the reader to be sent literally and
figuratively. Leiden University Libraries and the Museum of Ethnology
are jointly organizing the exhibition Maps:
Navigating and Manipulating. The exhibition shows maps from
all over the world, in combination with works by contemporary
artists. The exhibition is in the Museum
of Ethnology, Steenstraat 1.
October 22, 2022 –
September 3, 2023 - Rochester, Massachusetts
The Rochester
Historical Society, 355 County Road, opened its new exhibit:
Maps,
Signs and Celebrations. This exhibit displays some of the
signs and maps in our collection and connects both to people and
places. Included is a pull-down Walling map of Rochester in 1856.
This map probably graced a classroom wall in that era. Walling maps
are prized because their creator, H.F. Walling, born in Burriville,
Rhode Island, was well respected in the field of cartography. The
Historical Museum will open on June – August each Sunday from
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. To visit the museum in September though
June, call 508-295-8908 for an appointment or email
<rochestermahistoricalsociety(at)gmail.com>.
October 28, 2022 – April
16, 2023 - Miami Beach
The Wolfsonian—Florida
International University, 1001 Washington Avenue, charts global
ambition in Plotting
Power: Maps and the Modern Age, Maps make the world. Mirrors
of our loftiest dreams and deepest fears, maps draw literal lines
between "you" and "me," "us" and
"other," more often reflecting how we see it than how it
is. Plotting Power follows the use of map-like imagery for
political, commercial, and other purposes in the first half of the
20th century, when the possibilities of travel and technology opened
new horizons for global ambition. Featuring Wolfsonian collection
items including paintings, prints, posters, industrial design, and
graphic materials, the exhibition traces how maps and other
representations of geography were shaped by design strategies,
diverse agendas, and signature stories of modern history.
November 1, 2022 - April 2023 -
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
Mapping
Pennsylvania History includes never-before displayed maps
which illustrate southeastern Pennsylvania, and historical events in
the region from the colonial period to the early 1900s. A new exhibit
at the Schwenkfelder Library
& Heritage Center, 105 Seminary St., shows original
historical and large-reproduction maps that trace the growth of the
state and the city of Philadelphia, what the maps designate as “the
Native American presence,” and significant historical events,
such as Washington’s encampments in Montgomery County. Special
maps in the exhibit include the first printed map of Montgomery
County (dated 1830) and a map of Philadelphia and vicinity (1860),
both on view for the first time.
November 3, 2022 - May 2023 –
Lisbon
The
Door to the Pacific: A cartographic journey through the Strait of
Magellan is a cartographic exhibition, in Galeria Ciências
(Building C4), of the Faculdade
de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, about the
construction of the image of the Strait of Magellan in the early
modern period: a long, complex and discussed process, influenced by
many and diverse factors, including the geographic complexity of the
Strait of Magellan. 22 maps between 1520 and 1620 are displayed,
documenting the evolution of the representation of the Strait of
Magellan over these 100 years. This exhibition is part of the Making
the Earth Global: Early Modern Nautical Rutters and the
Construction of a Global Concept of the Earthproject , funded by the
European Research Council (ERC) within the framework of the European
Union's Horizon research and innovation programme.
November 12, 2022 - February 18,
2023 - North Devon, England
The Museum
of Barnstaple and North Devon tells the stories of the people and
landscapes of North Devon. The exhibition Mapping
Our Town accompanies the publication of a new book edited by
Todd Gray, exploring 17th century Barnstaple. Highlighting a recent
discovery in the Bodleian Library. A detailed map of Barnstaple
during 1650 by Richard Newcourt, 200 years earlier than any known map
of the area. Returning to Barnstaple, this map together with items
from our own and South West Heritage Trust collections, including
paintings, the Abbott family sketchbook, architectural fragments,
cannon balls and documents aims to create a picture of Barnstaple in
1650.
November 17, 2022 - February 2023
– Oxford
The Bodleian
Libraries, partnered with the Museum of Colour and Fusion Arts,
has curated These
Things Matter: Empire, Exploitation and Everyday-Racism, a
new exhibition exploring the ‘devastating and long term
effects’ of the British Empire. These Things Matter will
showcase how maps, letters and the Bible were edited deliberately to
manipulate millions of people and to justify the Transatlantic Slave
Trade. These Things Matter runs in Blackwell Hall at the
Weston Library and online through the Museum
of Colour.
November 17, 2022 - June 30, 2023
– Portland, Maine
The
Osher Map Library and Smith Center
for Cartographic Education announces our latest exhibition,
Industry, Wealth, and
Labor: Mapping New England’s Textile Industry. Inspired
by the map library’s recent acquisition of a collection of
textile mill insurance plans and historic maps from the American
Textile History Museum, this exhibition addresses the temporal,
geographic, and demographic components of New England’s cotton
textile industry from the early 19th century until the middle of the
20th century. 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.
December 1, 2022 - April 16, 2023
- Bruges
In 1561, the Liberty of Bruges, the largest and
richest castellany in the county of Flanders, commissioned Pieter
Pourbus to paint a map of its entire territory, including all the
roads, watercourses, villages and towns. Ten years later, the
artist-cartographer delivered his completed magnum opus to his
patrons. A new exhibition gives you the opportunity to make your
acquaintance with ‘The painted map of the Liberty of Bruges’
(1571). A work that straddles the boundary between art and
cartography, Pourbus’ detailed map depicts the harbour
landscape of Bruges at the end of the 16th century in a unique
manner. In the exhibition Pieter
Pourbus. Master of Maps, the painted map occupies the central
position, both literally and figuratively. With the aid of a number
of remarkable landscape-archaeological finds and the use of
magnifying glasses and digital screens, this unique map and the lost
medieval landscape it depicts will be brought back to life.
Exhibition can be seen in Groeninge
Museum, Dijver 12.
December 3, 2022 - October 29,
2023 - Cartersville, Georgia
Treasures
of NOAA’s Ark will explore the history of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and how this federal
agency has impacted people across the nation and the world. As the
organization has evolved and grown over the years, NOAA has become an
international leader on scientific and environmental issues.
Treasures of NOAA’s Ark will feature 18th-century maps
and charts and early scientific instruments. The exhibition will
highlight NOAA’s legacy of science, service, and stewardship
and explore how we are all connected to the environment. Exhibition
can be seen at Tellus Science
Museum, 100 Tellus Dr.
December 5, 2022 - March 26, 2023
- Mexico City
If you’re interested in a glimpse of
Mexico City during pre-Hispanic times, or at other moments in its
centuries of history, the
Usted está aquí (You are here) exhibit at
the Museo de
la Ciudad de México, José María Pino Suárez
30, is for you. The exhibit showcases 12 historical maps of what is
now Mexico City, dating as far back as the 16th century. The public
will be able to see the “Map of Nuremberg” or Map of
Cortés dated 1524 from the Library of Congress, in addition to
the “Form and survey of Mexico City” by Juan Gómez
de Trasmonte, drawn up in 1628, from the National Library of France
or the “Topographic Plan of the Federal District”, drawn
up in 1857 by the Commission of the Valley of Mexico City and the
metropolitan area and the Plan of Mexico City, edition of 1879 by
Agustín Ocampo and Agustín Arellano, among others.
December 8, 2022 - January 8,
2023 – Nicosia
The Bank
of Cyprus Cultural Foundation is hosting the Satirical
Cartography Exhibition Historical
& Caricature Accounts of Europe, before, during and after World
War One, from Panayiotis N. Soucacos collection. The
exhibition will take place at Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
ground floor space for periodical exhibitions, 86-90 Phaneromenis St.
Twenty-three maps which represent three different historical time
periods of the period before World War I, period during World War I,
and period after World War I are displayed.
January
13, 2023 - August 19, 2023 – Boston
The
Norman B. Leventhal Map &
Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St.,
will have a new temporary exhibition. Building
Blocks: Boston Stories from Urban Atlases shows
small-scale stories of urban change. Visitors will discover how the
atlas collections opens up a world of fascinating stories, with
vignettes including the country’s first African Meeting House
in the heart of Beacon Hill, landmarks of leisure like the “Derby
Racer” and “Giant Safety Thriller” amusement rides
in Revere, public health infrastructure on Gallops Island in the
former South Bay, and many more.
January
13, 2023 - Indefinite – Boston
Becoming
Boston: Eight Moments in the Geography of a Changing City can
be seen in the Norman B.
Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public
Library, 700 Boylston St. The exhibition follows the changing spatial
forms of the place we now call Boston. Maps trace out the complicated
history of places, and we can use them to document geography in much
the same way that we can use diaries and letters to document
biography. In the eight cases of this exhibition, we follow the
changing spatial forms of the place we now call Boston—from
before the landscape carried that name all the way through the
struggles, clashes, and dreams that continue to reshape the city
today.
January 21, 2023 – April
10, 2023 – London
Discover the rich story of Spanish and
Hispanic art and culture from the ancient world to the early 20th
century through over 150 fascinating works including maps, drawings,
and illuminated manuscripts at the Royal
Academy of Arts in Burlington House, Piccadilly. Spain
and the Hispanic World / Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum &
Library features the famous "World Map" of 1526 by
Giovanni Vespucci; and culminates with Sorolla’s colourful,
large-scale study for his monumental series of 14 paintings, “Vision
of Spain”. Founded in New York in 1904, the Hispanic Society
Museum & Library is home to the most extensive collection of
Spanish art outside of Spain. Presented for the first time in the UK,
it will offer visitors a chance to trace the great diversity of
cultures and religions – from Celtic to Islamic, Jewish and
Christian – that have shaped and enriched what we today
understand as Spanish culture.