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 - 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.
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 20, 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. The exhibition takes a tour of the different
cartographic representations of Spain throughout its history
beginning with the first references to the Peninsula: the Iberia of
the Greeks, the Roman Hispania, the scientific cartography of
Claudius Ptolemy, the religious and nautical charts in the Middle
Ages, the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries and the cartography of the eighteenth century. The
exhibition ends with the map of the provincial division of Spain of
1833.
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.
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 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.
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 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. The entire exhibit, titled
Maps and Globes: The Art of Shaping Our World, includes many Virginia
and West Virginia maps and other cartographic materials. A key item
on display is the Society’s original 1828 James Wilson and Sons
Terrestrial Globe, recently restored. 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.
November 10, 2018 - March 3, 2019
- Shelburne, Vermont
Shelburne
Museum, 6000 Shelburne Road, presents Mapping
an Uneven Country: Bird’s Eye Views of Vermont. With
over three dozen drawn, painted and printed views, the show explores
the “perspective” or “bird’s eye”
prints and paintings that found widespread popularity in the late
1800s. The show features Vermont towns — Bennington to St.
Albans, Brattleboro to St. Johnsbury. From the earliest, an 1845
lithograph of Bellows Falls drawn by a Mrs. Webber, to several from
the 1890s — Barre, Williamstown and Hardwick among them —
these panoramic images offer views of the layout of Vermont cities
and towns and a sense of the spirit of the era.
December 12, 2018 - February 2,
2019 - Hong Kong
Landscape
Map of the Silk Road exhibition can be seen in Hong
Kong Science Museum. The “Landscape Map of the Silk Road”
is a map that was drawn on a silk handscroll in blue and green
landscape painting style. The map, which is about 30 metres long and
0.6 metres wide, was an imperial painting that belonged to the
Jiajing Emperor in the Ming dynasty. It named over 200 cities,
ranging from Jiayu Pass, Gansu province, in the east, to Mecca, Saudi
Arabia, in the west. The exhibition will also display various China
maps and Hong Kong maps drawn in the 16th to 20th centuries, allowing
you to appreciate both Chinese and Western perceptions of the
geography of China and the various functions of maps.
January 2019 - May 19, 2019 - New
York
Mapping has always been central to understanding and
interpreting New York City. As the city developed in the late 18th
century, its population increased and diversified. A need developed
for maps that depicted more than just the built environment and would
hopefully help city officials and the populace understand a new
threat to the city: disease. Beginning with Valentine Seaman’s
maps of the yellow fever outbreak of 1795, New Yorkers strove to both
quantify and identify through cartography the locations and causes of
epidemics. Mapping
Contagion: Representing Infectious Disease in New York City
can be seen in New York Public Library, Stephen
A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Avenue (42nd St and Fifth Ave).
The exhibition explores that effort by showcasing over one hundred
years of mapping contagion in the city of New York. Prototypical
examples of the mapping of yellow fever, cholera, pneumonia, sexually
transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis are presented not only as
representations of the mapping of disease but also as examples of the
development of data visualization. These cartographic objects from
the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division are supplemented
by posters, photos, books, and ephemera from the Library’s
Print Collection, General Research Division, and the Picture
Collection. This material provides context for each time period’s
cultural and societal reaction to disease and places the maps in
conversation with the larger social and scientific trends of each era
of New York City’s history.
January 4-7, 2019 - Hyderabad,
Telangana, India
Back in time, both Hyderabad and Ahmedabad
were walled cities. Inevitably, the cities grew beyond these
boundaries (portions of the walls barely exist today). Juxtaposing
archival material such as historical reports and maps with
contemporary aerial photographs of these cities would make for an
engaging discourse. Expect this and more in Ahmedabad Walls and
Hyderabad Biophilia, exhibition held as part of Krishnakriti
Festival 2019, at State
Gallery of Art, Kavuri Hills, Jubilee Hills.
January 14, 2019 - August 31,
2019 - Sedona, Arizona
The Sedona
Heritage Museum, 735 Jordan Road, has announced the opening of
their newest temporary exhibit, a display of Sedona and Arizona maps.
Entitled Maps In Our Lives, the exhibit features almost all
maps that include Sedona as part of their geography, yet focus on a
variety of themes. Several are colorful; some are cartoonish; a few
are Sedona tourism maps of the past; and others are maps that try to
preserve historic routes that included Sedona before there was a
“Sedona”.
January 16, 2019 - February 15,
2019 - Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi’s first Manuscripts
Conference and Exhibition is at the Manarat
Al Saadiyat, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Hwy،
Saadiyat Cultural District،
Saadiyat Island. About 50 manuscripts make up the
exhibit, all on loan from Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal Centre for
Research and Islamic Studies and the Juma Al Majid Establishment in
the UAE. Iincluded are maps and books.
January 25, 2019 - May 12, 2019 -
New York
If the hobbits, elves, wizards, and dwarves that fill
the pages of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic books capture your
imagination, you’ll want to visit the Morgan
Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, and
visit the exhibition Tolkien:
Maker of Middle Earth . Reading "The Hobbit" and
"The Lord of the Rings" remains a right of passage for many
young adults, with aficionados of Tolkien immersing themselves in
Middle-earth mythology. Tolkien enthusiasts have an opportunity to
learn more about these epic tales and the man behind them in this
exhibition. Tolkien family photos and memorabilia are paired
alongside his original illustrations, maps, and designs for "The
Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings," and "The
Similarillon." Together with annotated manuscripts and maps, the
illustrations provide a full picture of an artist immersed in his
creative process. The exhibition borrows from the Tolkien Archive at
Oxford’s Bodleian Library, Marquette University Libraries, the
Morgan, and private lenders to paint a portrait of the author’s
stunning achievements.
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 – March 1,
2020 – Oxford
Talking
Maps is the summer exhibition at Weston
Library, University of Oxford. Talking Maps brings
together an extraordinary collection of ancient, pre-modern and
contemporary maps in a range of media as well as showcasing
fascinating imaginary, fictional and war maps. The exhibition will
explore how maps are neither transparent objects of scientific
communication, nor baleful tools of ideology, but rather proposals
about the world that help people to understand who they are by
describing where they are. 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.