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of past exhibitions.
Indefinite - Carson, California
A permanent exhibition
of antique maps has opened on the second floor of the California
State University Dominguez Hills University
Library, 1000 E. Victoria Street. Entitled Where
Are You From? the exhibition documents the vast information
that be gleaned from maps. Looking for New Granada? Since it is now
the country of Columbia you probably can't readily find it on
MapQuest, although it is represented on a map now on display in the
library. Need to find where Russian Tartary or "Hindoostan"
was? You can find them in the exhibition. With 15 maps dating from
1747 to 1946, the exhibition covers the entire world. These maps show
how the world was viewed throughout the last 250 years and surprise
the viewer with accuracy as well as inaccuracy and whimsy. They
invite praise for their art and design, confusion when a familiar
place is named something else and serve as a gateway for critical
thinking. The maps are part of the Library's Archives and Special
Collections Map Collection. Additional maps are on display in the on
the fifth floor. The Library collaborated with the Promoting
Excellence in Graduate Studies Program to put the exhibition
together. The maps can viewed during regular library hours.
Indefinite - Fort Wayne, Indiana
The
Karpeles Library is the world's largest private holding of important
original manuscripts & documents. Founded in 1983 by California
residents David and Marsha Karpeles, the focus was to stimulate an
appetite for learning. Currently, there are 12 museums and one map
museum nationwide, with each one occupying a preserved building. The
Karpeles Map
Museum, Pinqua, occupies the former Church of Christ at 3039
Piqua Avenue. The map-only museum will display maps on a three- to
six-month rotation schedule. Admission is always free. For
information (KMuseumFtW(at)aol.com) call 260-456-6929.
Indefinite - Jacksonville, Florida
The Lewis
Ansbacher Map Collection contains some 244 antiquarian maps
of Florida and Florida cities, North and South America, and the
world. It includes historical views and plates focusing on northern
Florida. Most of these maps are on permanent display in the Morris
Ansbacher Map Room on the fourth floor of the Main
Library, 303 N. Laura Street. Additional information
813-228-0097.
Indefinite - Kahului, Maui, Hawaii
The story of how
Hawaii found its place on the map in the mid-Pacific is a tale filled
with discovery, adventure and conflict. When European explorers first
entered the Pacific, they found that the great ocean had already been
mastered by navigators whose nautical skills rivaled their own: the
Polynesians. The presence of the Polynesians throughout the ocean's
isles was testimony to an extraordinary seafaring heritage. The Story
of Hawaii Museum displays antique maps, prints and ephemera from
the Polynesian Migrations to the 21st Century in an attempt to
explain the history of Hawaii. The Story of Hawaii Museum Gallery &
Museum Gift Shop is open 7 days a week and is centrally located at
the first level of Queen Kaahumanu Center, 275 W Kaahumanu Ave.
Indefinite - Kozani, Greece
Kozani
in the World of Maps is on display at the Municipal
Map Library housed in the recently restored Georgios
Lassanis Mansion at the center of the city. The historic Map
Library, with its roots in 17th century, keeps a small but important
collection of maps, atlases and geography books, mainly from 18th
century, referred to the period of Greek Enlightenment. For example,
a copy of the 1797 Rigas Velestinlis "Charta" as well as
the extremely rare 1800 Anthimos Gazis world map are kept there among
other maps and atlases which were never before put on public display.
Contact info(at)kozlib.gr or 2461 50635 / 2461 50632 for additional
information.
Indefinite – La Jolla, California
The Map
& Atlas Museum of La Jolla is tucked into an office building
at 7825 Fay Ave, Suite LL-A. The maps are displayed on walls and in
cases, arranged somewhat chronologically and by themes. There’s
a crude black and white drawing of the world from 1472, a vibrant
“Roads to Romance” representation of Southern California
circa 1958 and hundreds of other maps from all over the world. Some
were used in their day for navigation, some for display, some for
dreaming. There are maps that show California as an island - a
depiction of an almost mythological paradise that persists, in the
public consciousness, centuries later. There is a map from 1617 that
shows what is now Belgium and Holland shaped like a lion - a
projection of power and national pride. The maps are a part of the
Stone Map and Atlas Foundation, headed by local businessman and
philanthropist Michael Stone, who has been collecting maps for 20
years. The Museum is open Wednesday and Thursday 11-4 and the 1st and
3rd Saturday also 11-4 or by appointment for groups of four or more.
For additional information contact Richard Cloward
(richard(at)lajollamapmuseum.org) or Roz Gibson
(roz(at)lajollamapmuseum.org) at 855-653-6277.
Indefinite – La Rochelle, France
The Musée
du Nouveau Monde [Museum of the New World], 10 Rue Fleuriau, is
housed in an eighteenth century mansion, the hotel Fleuriau, named
after the family who lived there from 1772 to 1974. The Museum
features numerous old maps of the Americas as well as sculptures,
paintings, drawings, furniture and decorative objects. These objects
are evidence of the triangular trade and slavery with the Americas,
through which the city of La Rochelle, like others, amassed
considerable wealth. Part of the museum is devoted to the French
conquest of the New World, especially in Canada, while evoking the
Old West and Native Americans.
Indefinite - Palma, Majorca
Bartolomé March
Servera (1917-1998) became an important art collector and
bibliophile. The Fundación
Bartolomé March established a museum, where the family
residence in Palma was located for decades, to display his
collection. The Palau March, located at Carrer del Palau Reial, 18,
displays an outstanding collection of art and sculpture. Another of
the numerous collections that Bartolomé March brought together
was that of Majorcan
Cartography. In Majorca, between the 14th and 15th Century,
an important set of navigation charts signed by local artists was
drawn up. The great majority of these charts left the island and the
most famous of them ended up in public libraries or in private hands.
Bringing together this collection, considered to be one of the best
in the world, was an arduous task. The exhibit displayed here, with
excellent documentation, brings together a very interesting
collection both for its technical perfection and its exquisite
ornamental effect. Included are Portolan charts by Jacobus Russus
(1535), Mateo Prunés
(1561), Jaume Olives (1564 and 1571), Joan Oliva (1620), and Miquel
Prunés (1640).
Indefinite – Mexico City
Museo
Nacional de la Cartografía,
at Avenida Observatorio No. 94, corner of Periférico Tacubaya,
D.F., C.P. 11870, Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, features exhibits
about the general history of mapping of Mexico. Codices, atlases,
navigational charts, topographic plans, and instruments used to make
geodesic and topographical measurements are on display.
Indefinite – Montreal
History
and Memory showcases almost 500 artifacts, images, archival
documents, and early maps from the Stewart
Museum’s vast collection showing the influence of European
civilizations in New France and North America. The planispheres, star
charts and maps of North and South America and the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans amply illustrate the expanding geographic knowledge
gained by Europeans as they made their way across continents, that
until then, had remained terra incognita. Added to these artefacts is
a major collection of globes and navigation instruments: mariner’s
compass, traverse board, nocturnal, astrolabe, sundial, and maritime
hourglass from the 18th century. The Stewart Museum is located at the
British military depot on St. Helen's Island, Parc Jean-Drapeau.
Indefinite - Raleigh, North Carolina
Capital
Cartography: A History of Raleigh in Maps can be seen at the
City of Raleigh Museum,
220 Fayetteville Street. This exhibit showcases over two hundred
years of Raleigh’s development through a collection of historic
maps. Looking at maps as more than way finding tools, visitors
experience cartography as a reflection of the times and the draftsmen
who crafted them. The exhibit features 14 maps that reflect over 200
years of the Capital city’s history.
Indefinite - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
The Mercator
Museum, Zamanstraat 49, displays a chronological story of
cartography, from ancient times to today. In this story, the figure
and work of Gerard De Cremer (Rupelmonde 1512 - 1594 Duisburg) - aka
Gerard Mercator - is placed in the spotlight. His rare earth globe
(1541) and celestial globe (1551), recently included in the Flemish
masterpieces list, remain the highlights of the museum. The rich
collection of atlases, including his first Ptolemy edition 1584,
shines in the showcases. The story is complemented by a carefully
chosen selection of maps and atlases from the 17th to the early 20th
century.
Indefinite - Tampa, Florida
Five
Hundred Years of Florida Maps features items selected from
the J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton Collection of Florida
Cartography at The Tampa
Bay History Center, 801 Old Water Street. These maps and charts
represent some of the "Florida" map-makers visions that
have been created over the past 500 years.
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 New Nation: Abel Buell’s Map of the United States, 1784
is
an exhibition at the Library
of Congress featuring the first map of the newly independent
United States that was compiled, printed and published in America by
an American. The exhibition will be located in the Great Hall North
Gallery on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First
St. S.E. Free and open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Saturday. Rare and historically important, the Abel
Buell map also was the first map to be copyrighted in the United
States. Seven copies of the map are known to exist, and this copy is
considered the best preserved and, therefore, is the most frequently
chosen for illustration of Buell’s work. Also on display will
be four early maps of North America by John Mitchell, Carington
Bowles, Thomas Hutchins and William Faden, which were created from
1755 to 1778. Buell most likely consulted these maps when he engraved
his large wall map. A 1784 map of the United States by William
McMurray, which was published nine months after Buell’s map,
will complete the exhibition.
Indefinite – Washington
In 2011, Albert H. Small
donated to George Washington
University Museum, 701 21st Street NW, his unrivaled collection
of 1,000 maps and prints, rare letters, photographs, and drawings
that document the history of Washington, DC. A
Collector’s Vision: Creating the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana
Collection presents highlights of the Albert H. Small
Washingtoniana Collection, including Mr. Small's first acquisition
and other items that explore what motivates individuals to collect.
Indefinite – Washington
The
Historical Society of Washington
is delighted to present a new exhibit, Window
to Washington, featuring the Kiplinger Collection, the most
important donation in the organization’s 188-year history. The
exhibit explores the development of our nation’s capital, from
a sleepy southern town into a modern metropolis, as told through the
works of artists who witnessed the city’s changes. The exhibit
can be seen at the Society's Kiplinger
Library on the second floor of the historic Carnegie Library
building in Mt. Vernon Square, 801 K Street, NW - the District’s
original, never segregated Central Library - directly across from the
Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The exhibition draws from the
strengths of the Kiplinger Collection in early maps and birds-eye
views, 19th and 20th century prints, mid-20th century oil paintings,
watercolors, and photographs. Upon entering the exhibition one first
sees a print of the first published version of Pierre L’Enfant’s
famous 1791 map depicting the gifted French architect and urban
planner’s vision for a capital city worthy of comparison with
those of great European nations. Open Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Appointments for group tours can be made by
contacting the library (library(at)historydc.org).
April 2014 - April 2018 – Amsterdam
Go on a
journey with the maps and atlases that forever changed how we see the
world. The exhibition, The
Atlases, shows you top pieces from The National Maritime
Museum's extensive collection of maps and atlases. Get acquainted
with the four pioneers of cartography: Ptolemy, Mercator, Claesz, and
Blaeu. These map makers and publishers produced maps and atlases that
forever changed how we see the world. Exhibition can be seen in the
East Wing, National
Maritime Museum, Kattenburgerplein 1.
February 2016 - through 2017 - Austin, Texas
The
Bullock Museum,
1800 N. Congress Ave, exhibition Mapping
Texas: Collections from the Texas General Land Office is an
exhibit throughout the year of maps from the Texas
General Land Office. Maps change quarterly.
January 9, 2017 - December 31, 2017 - Oxford, Mississippi
Every
year is a birthday year, but this one is special. The state of
Mississippi will turn 200 years old on Dec. 10. As 2017 progresses,
bicentennial events will happen throughout the state, which was the
20th to join the United States of America. The J.D.
Williams Library at the University of Mississippi has an
exhibition Mississippi: 200 Years of Statehood. A team of
curators filled cases in the library’s Faulkner
Room with early documents, maps, sheet music, photographs,
textbooks, political signs, recordings and much more. Maps include a
1763 map by Johann Baptist Homann, imperial cartographer to Holy
Roman Emperor Charles VI. Far more accurate maps from before and
after the Civil War document the state’s evolution as big
counties were broken up into smaller ones. The Department of Archives
and Special Collections at J.D. Williams Library is open 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday to Friday, except for university holidays.
January 27, 2017 - October 8, 2017 – Houston
Featuring
maps dating from 1513 to 1920, the special exhibition Mapping
Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State, at the Houston
Museum of Natural Science, traces more than 400 years of Texas
history. Visitors will have the opportunity to see the formation of
Texas, from an unnamed frontier in the New World, to a small outpost
of New Spain, to the huge, bustling state that now leads the nation.
Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State will be in
the Hamill Gallery and feature maps dating between 1513-1920. The
works in this exhibition are mainly from the archival collection of
the Texas General Land Office and Houston map collectors Frank and
Carol Holcomb. Additionally, there are items on loan from the Witte
Museum in San Antonio and the Bryan Museum in Galveston.
January 27, 2017 – August 2017 - Salt Lake City
Maps
serve many purposes. They represent physical geographies, recording
landmarks, routes, and boundaries. But they also reflect varying
perceptions, imaginations, values, and aspirations. This is certainly
true of the maps presented in Utah
Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps. Over five centuries,
empires and explorers along with printers and publishers worked first
to trace the outline of a continent that was new to Europeans and
then, eventually, to fill in its vast middle. These maps show the
steady increase of geographic knowledge of the Americas, but they
also demonstrate the economic and political interests that produced
that knowledge and the individuals who benefited from it. They hint
at what map makers and their sponsors determined was worth
documenting, identifying, and, in some cases, possessing. They often
erase, obscure, and distort. Put simply: maps are more than
cartographic representations of known or imagined physical features
on the landscape. As you examine these maps, try to determine the
purposes for which they were made and any mistruths, omissions, and
distortions they may contain. The maps are displayed in the Utah
Capitol Building, 350 N State St. Maps in the exhibition are
primarily owned by Salt Lake City businessman Steven Boulay, with
contributions from the Utah State Historical Society, American West
Center at the University of Utah, L. Tom Perry Special Collections at
Brigham Young University, and LDS Church History Department.
February 10, 2017 - October 10, 2017 - College Station,
Texas
Authors who create elaborate fantasy worlds, like J.R.R.
Tolkien’s Middle-earth and George R.R. Martin’s Westeros,
often provide maps to guide readers through these imaginary lands.
Texas A&M University’s Cushing
Memorial Library and Archives, 400 Spence St, invites visitors to
explore fantasy maps with the new exhibit, Worlds
Imagined: The Maps of Imaginary Places Collection.
February 10, 2017 – December 2017 - Hinsdale,
Illinois
Mapping
Hinsdale is a fairly comprehensive cartographic display of
the approximately 4.6 square miles which comprise the village. The
Hinsdale Historical Society
has quite a range of maps including ones from 1870, a few years
before Hinsdale was officially incorporated. They show how the
village's earliest developers, men who were real estate investors and
speculators, planned the village. A plat map from 1870 shows the
homes and lots for sale. It also shows how the various areas of
Hinsdale were subdivided and labeled for the investors who purchased
those plots. Another is a bird's eye view of Hinsdale drawn in the
1880s in color from above the village and looking north and east over
Main Street — now Garfield — past the railroad tracks and
over what would later be the hospital. There are a few Hinsdale
zoning maps, which show which parts of Hinsdale were commercial and
residential, and the viewer can see how that map has literally
changed over time. Also there are street maps, topographic maps,and a
large Sanborn map. Mapping Hinsdale is on display in an
upstairs bedroom of the Hinsdale History Museum, 15 South Clay
Street, which is open to the public from noon to 4 p.m. on Fridays
and Saturdays or by appointment. For more information, email
info(at)HinsdaleHistory.org or call 630-789-2600.
February 24, 2017 - January 7, 2018 - The Hague
The
world of the Dutch East India Company can be seen at The
National Archives, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 20. This exhibition
marks the digitization of the archives of the Dutch East India
Company (VOC). The archives are spread across various countries
around the world and a large portion is preserved in the National
Archives. They contain a wealth of information and have served as a
unique source for research for many years. The National Archives
brings this remarkable material together for the first time in a
single exhibition. Visitors are taken on a voyage past two hundred
years of history of unique maps, ships' logs, letters and drawings.
For this exhibition fifty unique maps and charts are on display.
March 4, 2017 - August 27, 2017 – Boston
The new
gallery exhibition is entitled Regions
and Seasons: Mapping Climate through History. It will be on
display in the Leventhal Map
Center Gallery at the Boston Public
Library, 700 Boylston St. Regions and Seasons features
over sixty maps and three-dimensional objects related to the
capturing of weather data and depiction of the mapping of climate
zones, wind direction, ocean currents and more, dating from the 15th
century to present day. Visitors will learn about climate and
weather-related imagery found on maps throughout history, starting
with the “Venti”, the wind personas of the classical era,
long thought by sailors to direct the seas, and “Horae”,
the goddesses of the seasons who were thought to determine the
natural order of events. Next, throughout the age of Enlightenment,
cartographers began to depict recurring weather events as well as
seasonal trade winds, when efficient navigation was critical to the
success of the frequent expeditions from England to Asia. As science
moved to the forefront during this era, the increased focus on data
capture is reflected in the more complex maps of the time and beyond,
representing vast amounts of statistical information to further
public understanding of the varying climate patterns of different
geographic locations. The exhibition will also explore the challenges
posed by changing weather patterns and will look at Boston’s
evolution as a coastal city throughout history, featuring depictions
of the city before and after the completion of The Back Bay project
and the unique climate risks faced by iconic parts of the city as a
result of sea-level rise.
March 30, 2017 – October 28, 2017 - Portland,
Maine
Americans relied on print images to understand World War
I before and after the US entered the war in March 1917. Their
understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps
and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war’s
battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western
Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces.
The Osher Map Library and Smith
Center for Cartographic Education, 314 Forest Avenue, exhibition
To Conquer or
Submit? America Views the Great War commemorates and explores
American participation in the Great War—the “War to End
All Wars”—with a sample of informative and propagandistic
posters, maps, and atlases from the collections of USM’s Osher
Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education.
April 14, 2017 – December 31, 2017 – Amsterdam
Joan
Blaeu's map of the world, dating from 1648, one of the absolute
highlights of National
Maritime Museum, Kattenburgerplein 1, is on view for the public.
Its size is impressive – over 2 by 3 metres – and at the
time it displayed the most up-to-date knowledge of the world we live
in. This version of the map is absolutely unique. After being hidden
away for a long time, the map is once again open to the public as
part of the exhibition The
world according to Joan Blaeu | Master Cartographer of the Golden
Age. The
world according to Joan Blaeu is
a supplement to the popular Atlases
exhibition.
April 28, 2017 – October 27, 2017 – Ann Arbor,
Michigan
This exhibit,
Mapping
in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere,
in the William Clements Library
- Avenir Foundation Room, uses examples from the Clements Library
collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using
maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated
the effort to make more accurate maps, encouraged the growth of map
collecting and map use by men and women in all social classes, and
expanded the role of maps in administration and decision-making
throughout Europe and her overseas colonies. Exhibition is open only
on Fridays from 10am to 4pm.
May 1, 2017 – August 4, 2017 - Boulder, Colorado
Jerry
Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library, 2200 Colorado
Avenue, has an exhibition Native
American Geographies. The exhibition features maps from
University of Colorado Boulder’s collection and works on paper
by Melanie Yazzie from the Department of Art and Art History. The
exhibit highlights art and maps that address the history of
indigenous peoples' lands in the U.S., focusing on the difficulty of
accurately mapping lands that were coercively transferred over time.
May 5, 2017 – November 30, 2017 – Prague
This
year is the 200th anniversary of the birth and the 130th anniversary
of the death of Jan Felkel, the founder and owner of a globe factory
in Roztoky by Prague. The Geographical section of the Faculty of
Science of Charles University and Museum of Central Bohemia in
Roztoky by Prague presents an exhibition J.
Felkl & Son, Globe Factory in
the foyer of the Map
Collection of the Faculty
of Science of Charles University, Albertov 6. Open Monday -
Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (admission free). The
exhibition presents the family firm J. Felkl and Son, which had been
active in Roztoky by Prague for nearly 100 years. This, the largest
Austro-Hungarian globe company, produced the best globes in 8 sizes,
10 versions and 17 languages. They also printed the first globes in
national languages, not only in Czech but also in Hungarian and
Polish. They were holders of two patents for special folding globes.
They also offered special instruments such as telluria, sololunaria,
planetaria and armillary spheres. They exported both to Europe and
overseas. Their globes were appreciated in many of the world´s
fairs (Paris, Vienna) and national exhibitions (Prague). Additional
information from exhibit curator Eva Novotná:
novotn48(at)natur.cuni.cz
May 20, 2017 - September 29, 2017 - Niskayuna, New York
Parts
But Little Known: Maps of the Adirondacks from 1556 is a
fascinating look at growing awareness of the region and what the
mapmakers thought about the potential of the Adirondacks. It
highlights the rich collections of the Adirondack Research Library,
from Verplanck Colvin’s reports accompanied by illustrations
documenting the trials of the surveying crews, to more than a
century’s worth of maps meant to advertise the region to
tourists. The exhibition is curated by Washington Map Society member
Cal Welch, and can be seen at Kelly
Adirondack Center of Union College, 897 St. David’s Lane.
Open Mondays and Tuesdays 10 am to 4 pm, Thursdays 1 to 4 pm, and by
appointment. For more information call Margie Amodeo at 518.280.5951.
May 23, 2017 - September 27, 2017 - Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Manuscript
Maps: Hand-Drawn Treasures of the Harvard Map Collection is
on display at Posey Library, Harvard
Map Collection, Harvard Yard. Whether made in surveying land,
fighting wars, learning geography, planning cities, preparing for
publication, or presenting beautiful maps to the public, manuscript
maps all emphasize the process by which they came into being and the
individual stories they carry with them. This exhibition highlights
the process of mapmaking by looking at maps drawn by hand.
June 7, 2017 – October 9, 2017 – Marseille
Ocean
Explorers From Sindbad to Marco Polo is an exhibition at
MuCEM, the Museum of European
and Mediterranean Civilizations, 7 Promenade Robert Laffont. Guided
by the legendary Sindbad the Sailor, the geographer al-Idrīsī,
the explorer Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, and many others,
set sail—with the Arabs, the masters of the seas, and the great
European sailors who sailed on their maritime routes—on a
wonderful voyage of discovery extending from the Mediterranean to the
Indian Ocean. From the beginning of Islam to the dawn of the
seventeenth century, it is a maritime adventure that visitors can see
and experience in an exceptional immersive itinerary that combines
sound effects, images, and optical devices. Sailors had to learn to
master the sea before setting sail. In a relaxed atmosphere, under
the guidance of the sailor and cartographer Ibn Majid (1432–1500),
visitors will learn about the art of sailing, see wonderful
navigation instruments, and discover the development of vessels, in a
journey of discovery complemented by many models. Thanks to the
development of cartography, sailors were able to better master the
seas, as attested by the author of a famous map of the world: the
geographer al-Idrīsī (circa 1100–1165), against a
backdrop of medieval Latin and Arab cosmographies, maps and
portolanos, world maps, and other astronomical treatises, and beneath
a didactic and interactive sky.
June 28, 2017 - December 10, 2017 - Baker City, Oregon
Finding
Fremont: Pathfinder of the West will
be on display at the National
Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Discover the story of
John C. Fremont and his expedition through Central Oregon in 1843-44.
Fremont’s mapping expeditions provided maps for emigrants on
The Oregon Trail and beyond, launching him to fame, fortune, and a
bid for president of the United States of America. Developed by the
Deschutes Historical Museum in partnership with the Nevada State
Museum in Carson City. Included in the exhibition is the
170-year-old, seven-section topographical map of the Oregon Trail
which was developed by cartographer Charles Preuss, who accompanied
frontiersman John C. Fremont and his wife Jesse Benton on an
expedition along the route of the Oregon Trail from Missouri to
Oregon in 1843.
July 1, 2017 – October 1, 2018 – Pittsburgh Few objects from colonial America had such a personal connection to their owners as the powder horns used by soldiers, settlers, and American Indians to store the gunpowder necessary for their survival. The Fort Pitt Museum, 601 Commonwealth Pl, will reveal the stories behind these delicately carved objects as part of a new exhibition, From Maps to Mermaids: Carved Powder Horns in Early America. In a world where firearms were necessary tools, the powder horn – made from the lightweight and hollow horn of a cow – served as the constant companion of thousands of frontier residents. While powder horns kept gunpowder dry, many owners also recognized the smooth surface of the horn as the ideal place to leave their mark. They etched names, dates, maps, and war records, as well as purely whimsical figures, into the objects. Many carved powder horns found in Pennsylvania in recent decades illustrate stations along the Forbes Road and include some of the earliest first-hand depictions of Fort Pitt. A 1764 powder horn depicts the Forbes Road between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The horn is signed by Jno. Fox, who may have been a soldier in the Royal American Regiment stationed at Fort Pitt.
July 1, 2017 – January 28, 2018 – Tampa
There
are a few different dates that may be mentioned concerning the
beginning of communications between Florida and Cuba: the 1850's when
the McKay family began shipping cattle from Tampa's Ballast Point to
Havana, 1886 with the arrival of the cigar industry and the founding
of Ybor City or in 1959 with Fidel Castro's takeover. But the history
reaches back further. Gateways
to the Caribbean: Mapping the Florida-Cuba Connection, the
new exhibit at the Tampa
Bay History Center, 801 Old Water Street, shows definite threads
between the Sunshine State and the island for over the last 500 years
with over 50 maps, both rare and original, lithographs and other
documents. One map, published 1511, shows a crude representation of
the "isla de beimini," the native Indian name for Florida,
by Peter Martyr, a Spaniard who had traveled with Cristopher
Columbus. Other maps depict fifteenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish
and British occupations of Cuba and Florida, nineteenth- and
twentieth-century development of rail and steamship lines and Cuban
tourist maps from the thirties and today.
July 6, 2017 - September 2, 2017 - Mattapoisett,
Massachusetts
This year’s summer exhibit, at
Mattapoisett
Historical Society Museum,5 Church Street, is all about maps. As
functional, yet decorative items, maps can serve many different
purposes. Mapping Mattapoisett: Tracing Our Place In the World
explores the museum’s extensive collection of maps and charts,
most of which have never been displayed. The exhibit will have maps
of all types on show, from Clifford Ashley’s “A Chart of
the Whale Coast of New England” c. 1810 down to small,
hand-drawn sketches of old Mattapoisett street plans and landmarks.
Come visit to see how Mattapoisett has been represented through
cartography! Museum is open Thursdays 10am–4pm, Fridays 1–4pm,
and Saturdays 1–4pm.
July 7, 2017 - August 25, 2017 – Moscow
We are
used to thinking of Moscow as a city of stone and concrete, but for
most of its 870-year history, it was a city of wood. It is easy to
imagine the huge hazard represented by fire in the city in medieval
times – how often must parts of old Moscow been consumed by
flames after a minor accident? As a new exhibition at the Museum
of Moscow, Zubovskiy b-r, 2, confirms, this was indeed the case.
Fire. Invasion of the Tatars. Fire. Time of Troubles. Fire. Fire,
reads a timeline of Moscow history printed around the museum’s
spiral staircase. The exhibit focuses on issues of city planning and
administration through maps, lithographs and travel diaries that
reveal a pragmatism not usually associated with Moscow or Russia in
general.
July 9, 2017 - September 10, 2017 - Belo Horizonte,
Brazil
Mapping
and Delineating Minas Gerais is
the thematic axis, Minas Gerais is the space, and the seventeenth to
nineteenth centuries form the temporal focus which link the maps
collected for this exposition at Museu
Mineiro, Av. João Pinheiro, 342. This rich cartographic
collection offers a view to the first consistent advance of
Luso-Brazilians towards the interior of Brazil, reaching the Gerais
in the central plateau.
July 11, 2017 - September 10, 2017 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
O
Desafio Cartográfico
do novo / Olhares Sobre O Globo O Brasil [The Cartographic Challenge
of the New / Looking Over the Globe and Brazil] can
be seen in Minas
Tenis Clube Cultural Center, 2244 Rua da Bahia. Our journey
begins with the maps revealing the incredible discoveries of distant
lands made by the Portuguese all over the world. Numerous maps,
books, engravings, and reports are brought together here for the
first time. The exhibit moves into the New World, to the Americas,
before focusing on early maps of Brazil.
July 13, 2017 – July 2018 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
The
Museu
Histórico
Abílio Barreto, Avenida Prudente de Morais, 202, has an
exhibition O
Desafio Cartográfico do novo / Belo Horizonte –
Cartografia de uma Cidade Planejada [The Cartographic Challenge of
the New / Belo Horizonte and the Cartography of a Planned City]. This
exhibtion of manuscript and printed maps reveals the diversity of
docmentation that was produced during the construction of the new
capital by the end of the nineteenth century. Topographical maps,
cadastral surveys, and numerous maps document the development of Belo
Horizonte.
August 4, 2017 - September 30, 2017 - Homer, Alaska
The
Pratt Museum, 3779 Bartlett
St., presents Cartography,
an exhibit exploring maps, wayfinding, and related artworks from the
museum collections, along with recent geospatial and interactive
products of Kachemak Bay.
August 5, 2017 - September 30, 2017- Hagerstown, Maryland
More
than 250 years ago, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began mapping
out and marking the now-iconic boundary that bears their names.
Setting Boundaries: 250 Years of the Mason – Dixon Line
can be seen in the Washington
County Historical Society, Miller House Exhibit Room, 135 W.
Washington St. For over 250 years, the Mason-Dixon Line has been the
border between Maryland and Pennsylvania. But why does it exist?
Learn about the history of the Mason-Dixon Line and how it came to be
in a new exhibit. Open Wednesday-Friday 1-4 pm and Saturday 9 am–4
pm.
August 15, 2017 - September 7, 2017 - Fayetteville,
Arkansas
From the beautiful to the banal, modest to elaborate,
maps have provided Arkansans with a vehicle for more than just
understanding the lay of the land. An exhibit at University Libraries
titled Mapping
the Natural State: Arkansans Making and Using Maps features
maps of Arkansas, as well as maps drawn by Arkansans. These varied
examples of cartography, from before Arkansas statehood until late in
the 20th century, served different purposes for the diverse
individuals who drew or owned them. The exhibit will be on display in
the Helen Robson Walton Reading Room in Mullins
Library, University of Arkansas, 365 McIlroy Ave.
September 14, 2017 - January 16, 2018 - Leiden
Asia is
home to many different cultures, which share important
characteristics and are diverse at the same time. The exhibition
Mapping
Asia, in
University
Library Leiden, Witte Singel 27, investigates a
number of the most conspicuous features, such as language, education,
urbanization and natural resources. Each characteristic obviously
connected to the others. Politics and especially migration have been
instrumental in shaping some of these features. How does migration
influence the development of cities? Is globalization one the factors
in the disappearance of indigenous languages? These and more
questions are discussed in this exhibition. This is not an exhibition
on historical maps, but an exhibition in which various aspects of
Asia will be highlighted using cartography and GIS mapping tool. The
exhibition shows several attractive maps on a specific theme
especially made for this exhibition, including prints, books,
photographs and maps.
November 3, 2017 – March 11, 2018 – New York
The
New York Historical Society,
170 Central Park West, will display the exhibition Mapping
America's Road from Revolution to Independence.
The exhibition was developed by the Norman
B. Leventhal Map Center in commemoration of the 250th anniversary
of Britain’s 1765 Stamp Act. The exhibition uses maps, hand
drawn and hand printed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries, to illuminate the tremendous changes—geographic,
political, and economic—that occurred before, during, and just
after the Revolutionary War. The New York Historical Society has
added rarely seen manuscript and printed maps from its premier
collection to what is a remarkable selection of maps at the core of
the exhibition traveling from the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston
Public Library. Among the additions are a selection of maps drawn in
the field by Robert Erskine, Geographer and Surveyor General of the
Continental Army, and his successor Simeon Dewitt, and a copy of John
Mitchell’s Map of the British and French Dominions in North
America with the Roads, Distances, Limits and Extent of the
Settlements (1755) to which John Jay added red lines to indicate
proposed boundaries during the negotiations of the Treaty of Paris in
1783.