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.
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of past exhibitions.
Indefinite – Amsterdam
The
National Maritime
Museum, Kattenburgerplein 1, exhibition Maps
and Marvels brings together maps, globes and atlases by Dutch
cartographers from the National Maritime Museum's world-leading
collection. This exhibition shows how the ships found their way at
sea in the Dutch Golden Age, and how these voyages defined the
way we see the world. Using rare and early maps and globes, visitors
travel to the locations that played an important role in the Dutch
history: South Africa, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. The
spectacular wall map of Amsterdam by Pieter Bast, dating from 1597,
forms the starting point of the exhibition.
Indefinite – Bucharest
The
Muzeul Național
al Hărților și Cărții Vechi [National Museum
of Old Maps and Books], str.Londra nr.39 sector 1, opened to the
public in 2003 and is hosted in a beautiful villa built in the
1920's. The main collection of over 1000 items belonged to Professor
Adrian Năstase’s family and was donated to the Romanian
state. Numerous maps are displayed on the walls of this three story
villa.
Indefinite – Edinburgh
Treasures
of the National Library of Scotland
is a permanent exhibition of 13th- to 18th-century objects in the
library's collection which can be seen in George IV Bridge building.
Included are some of the first detailed maps of Scotland created by
Timothy Pont more than 400 years ago. The maps chart the geography of
16th-Century Scotland including details of tower houses and castles,
smaller buildings and settlements, mills and rivers and the extent of
woodland and physical features such as rivers and valleys and
mountain tops. They also mention landowners and other people.
Indefinite - Hershey,
Pennsylvania
In today’s digital world, we’ve
become accustomed to getting where we’re headed by pulling up
MapQuest or Google Maps on our phone or by using a GPS system to
guides us to our destination; however, that hasn’t always been
the case. Since the advent of automobiles, motorists have needed to
know how to get to their destination, and for many decades they
relied on paper maps. Maps were given away by local gas stations,
convenience stores, tire companies, banks, tourist bureaus, chambers
of commerce, rental car companies, and many other businesses. Many of
these businesses provided these maps as a form of advertising to get
customers to visit their attraction or gas station brand. Learn more
about this interesting collecting topic and see Remembering
Road Maps; a display with early maps right here at the AACA
Museum, Inc., 161 Museum Drive.
Indefinite - Jacksonville, Florida
The Lewis
Ansbacher Map Collection contains some 244 antiquarian maps
of Florida and Florida cities, North and South America, and the
world. It includes historical views and plates focusing on northern
Florida. Most of these maps are on permanent display in the Morris
Ansbacher Map Room on the fourth floor of the Main
Library, 303 N. Laura Street. Additional information
813-228-0097.
Indefinite - Kozani, Greece
Kozani
in the World of Maps is on display at the Municipal
Map Library housed in the recently restored Georgios
Lassanis Mansion at the center of the city. The historic Map
Library, with its roots in 17th century, keeps a small but important
collection of maps, atlases and geography books, mainly from 18th
century, referred to the period of Greek Enlightenment. For example,
a copy of the 1797 Rigas Velestinlis "Charta" as well as
the extremely rare 1800 Anthimos Gazis world map are kept there among
other maps and atlases which were never before put on public display.
Contact info(at)kozlib.gr or 2461 50635 / 2461 50632 for additional
information.
Indefinite - Kynceľová,
Slovakia
The Slovak Map
Museum, Kynceľová 77, presents you not only the rich
past and exceptional present of cartography in Slovakia, but also the
traditional and modern methods and technologies that create maps. Its
uniqueness lies not only in the content of its exhibition, but also
in its form. It was based on the principles of the global trend of
enriching experiences for visitors through interactivity, advances in
high technology and modern principles of education. What would a
museum be like without the history of cartography and old maps? We
will look at the development of maps in the world, but of course also
in Slovakia. You will also find some truly unique maps here.
Indefinite - Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin
What is believed to be an original map of Lake
Geneva — found recently inside a historic lakefront mansion —
now offers the public a rare glimpse of the city in its earliest
origins. The map from the early 1840s is part of Geneva
Lake Museum’s new exhibit Mapping the Past. The
exhibit features about 30 maps of Lake Geneva and the surrounding
area, including the original map showing Lake Geneva’s layout
just after pioneers incorporated the new municipality in 1836. The
majority of the maps in the exhibit have been donated by Edward Weed
of the town of Linn.
Closing August 31, 2023 – 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
In 2011, Albert H. Small
donated to George Washington
University Museum, 701 21st Street NW, his unrivaled collection
of 1,000 maps and prints, rare letters, photographs, and drawings
that document the history of Washington, DC. A
Collector’s Vision: Creating the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana
Collection presents highlights of the Albert H. Small
Washingtoniana Collection, including Mr. Small's first acquisition
and other items that explore what motivates individuals to collect.
Indefinite –
Williamsburg
The first large-scale expansion and upgrade to
the building that houses the Art
Museums of Colonial Williamsburg since they were first joined
under one roof in 2007 is complete. Guests at the DeWitt Wallace
Decorative Arts Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art
Museum are now able to enjoy an enhanced visitor experience through a
new wing that adds 65,000 square feet to the building, numerous
improved amenities as well as several new exhibitions. A new
exhibition Promoting
America: Maps of the Colonies and the New Republic, explores
how America’s indigenous peoples, flora, fauna and landscapes
influenced iconography on maps of the continent and how those symbols
changed, evolved or stayed the same over the course of two centuries.
Featured in the exhibition are maps that date from 1590, which
depicts the “New World” as a literal Garden of Eden and
will be on view for the first time, to an 1822 map celebrating the
relatively newly established United States as well as recent
acquisitions and other maps never before exhibited at the Art
Museums.
September 4, 2021 –
Indefinite - 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.
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 – May 18,
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.
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.
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>.
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 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 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.
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 31, 2023 - May 21, 2023 -
Walla Walla, Washington
Maxey
Museum, on campus of Whitman College, is now showcasing an
abundance of Indian maps. Mapping
India exhibition takes history fanatics on a new route. You
may walk by and see one map after another, thinking that they’re
just the same picture with different dimensions. If you take a closer
look, however, you start to notice some striking differences between
the prints. Some of the maps are new, and some are old. Some are
colorful, and some are sketched in black and white. Some are in
English, and some are in Hindi. Each of the distinctive maps tells a
different story, and the collection as a whole provides a vibrant
journey through time.
February 10, 2023 – October
22, 2023 - The Hague
The National
Archives of The Netherlands, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 20,
manages a collection of 300,000 maps and drawings, and 400 atlases
and map books. These maps were all created from a particular
perspective and for a specific purpose, such as managing the Dutch
dune area or building a new road network. Some maps were also used as
propaganda tools and to control areas of land. Based on the themes On
the way, Maps and Colonialism and Malleable Netherlands, the National
Archives shows the ideas and intentions of clients and map makers in
the exhibition On
the Map. Interviewees talk about historical maps that have a
personal meaning for them. As a visitor you can also give your
personal meaning to our maps by compiling your own travel journal.
March 1, 2023 - May 31, 2023 –
Stanford
Cartographers face particular challenges in
accurately capturing the dynamic nature of urban spaces. The ten maps
in the exhibit Seeing Cities: 10 Maps Over 200 Years showcase
two centuries of representational strategies for visualizing the
richness of urban landscapes. Exhibit can be seen in David
Rumsey Map Center, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall.
March 2, 2023 - July 16, 2023 –
Amsterdam
Open
kaart [Open map] – from atlas to street map shows seven
centuries of cartography in the Netherlands and takes a look into the
future. The exhibition, at Allard
Pierson Museum, Oude Turfmarkt 127-129, shows an enormous
diversity of maps from the 15th century and shares the stories behind
them. All maps, including work by Blaeu, Ortelius, Ptolemy and Bos,
belong to the cartography collection of the Allard Pierson, one of
the most important in Europe. A large part is on loan from the Royal
Dutch Geographical Society (KNAG), which celebrates its 150th
anniversary in March.
April 15, 2023 – October
29, 2023 - Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Some 20 maps of
Shepherdstown, Jefferson County and the surrounding area will be on
display in a new exhibit that will kick off the 2023 season at the
Historic Shepherdstown
Museum, 129 E. German St. The exhibit entitled Great
Dreams: Maps of Shepherdstown and Jefferson County from the 17th
through the 21st Century includes several original maps owned
by the Museum, including what is believed to be Thomas Shepherd’s
original plat map of Mecklenburg, both an 1852 and an 1883 Map of
Jefferson County by S. Howell Brown, an 1890 plat map of
Shepherdstown by S.E. Humrickhouse, and a 1920s Shaw and Whitmer map
of Jefferson County. In addition, the exhibit includes maps that show
the evolution of Jefferson County, several Civil War-era maps, and an
aerial map that outlines the Historic District of Shepherdstown.
Museum is open only on Saturdays 11am- 5pm and Sundays 1pm-4pm.
April 17, 2023 - May 2024 -
Boulder, Colorado
Featuring the works of two contemporary
women artists, Charlotte Bassin and Deborah Cole, and maps from the
Earth
Sciences & Map Library collection; No
Boundaries: Women Transforming the World highlights how using
maps in art-making prompts us to re-evaluate what we know about
space, place and depiction of ourselves in the world. The exhibit
will also a display a number of maps by women cartographers from the
map collection highlighting the historic and current role of women in
cartography, exploration and geographic representation. Exhibit can
be seen in Earth Sciences & Map Library, Benson Earth Sciences
Building, 2200 Colorado Avenue.
April 21, 2023 - May 20, 2023 –
Manila
Scarborough Shoal and the Spratlys in Ancient Maps:
an exhibition at the Alliance
Française de Manille, 209 Nicanor Garcia, 2, Makati,
featuring the “Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Islas
Filipinas”, more commonly known as the Murillo Velarde 1734 map
— the oldest known map in Philippine history; and Justice
Carpio’s old Philippines map collection. Retired Supreme Court
Associate Justice Antonio “Tony” Carpio, whose personal
advocacy was (and still is) the protection and preservation of
Philippine territorial and maritime sovereignty, specifically in the
West Philippine Sea, immediately saw the value of the Murillo Velarde
map to counter the adverse claims of China on Philippine territory.
May 5-14, 2023 – Glasgow
A
new ‘bird’s eye view’ map of Glasgow has been
created by a city artist – almost 160 years after the original
caused a sensation. Will Knight used drones to help him make the
artwork, which is an incredibly detailed snapshot of modern Glasgow,
while his predecessor, Thomas Sulman, did his research in a hot air
balloon. Now, both the Sulman map of 1864 and the Knight map are
being displayed side by side in an exhibition at the New
Glasgow Society, 1307 Argyle Street.
May 5, 2023 - June 4, 2023 –
Mumbai
The exhibition titled Mapped! — Surveys that
left behind a legacy, will introduce viewers to a multitude of
maps that not only elaborate on the journey of cartography, as a
field of inquiry, but also reference periods in history. The
exhibition is being organised by The Urban Heritage Committee of the
Rotary Club of Bombay
and The Asiatic Society
of Mumbai. Featured are survey maps and the earliest mappings of
the Indian Subcontinent. The activity was first started by William
Lambton and was later taken up by his assistant George Everest. The
exhibition can be viewed 10.30 am to 6.30 pm, all days, at Durbar
Hall, The Asiatic
Society of Mumbai, Fort.
May 20, 2023 - September 30, 2023
- Greenfield, Massachusetts
The Greenfield
Historical Society, 43 Church St, will open for the season this
year with the new exhibit Rivers, Roads & Railroads. The
exhibit will feature photos, paintings, maps and other items,
highlighting, in particular, recent donations from the estate of
Peter Spencer Miller, including items of his grandfather Archie
Spencer’s long career as an engineer on the Boston and Maine
Railroad. The museum is open every Saturday between the hours of noon
and 3 p.m.
June 1, 2023 - September 15, 2023
- Tahoe City, California
Gatekeeper’s
Museum, 130 West Lake Blvd., announces a new exhibit Discovering
Lake Tahoe Historical Maps 1849-1942. Learn about the
European-American discovery of Lake Tahoe and how the basin was
originally mapped. Explore what these historical maps reveal about
the political, economic and cultural climate in Lake Tahoe during the
late 19th and early 20th centuries. The original maps and a
first-edition copy of John C. Fremont’s 1842, 1843 and 1844
expedition are on display.
June 2-11, 2023 - Cassis,
France
Exhibition of old maps and plans of Cassis and
Provence, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century can be seeen
at Salles
voûtées de Cassis, Mairie, Place Baragnon.
June 8, 2023 – September
2023 – Stanford
In
2022, the David
Rumsey Map Center and California
Map Society co-sponsored our first ever student exhibition
curation competition. We received a remarkable number of
sophisticated proposals from students at institutions across the west
coast, and from this pool our panel of judges selected Stanford class
of 2025 undergraduate Arjun Maheshwari's Segmented Cities concept
to stage as a full exhibition at the Rumsey Center, Green Library,
557 Escondido Mall. Arjun's exhibition engages with the variety of
cartographic techniques employed to illustrate complex competing
cultural and ethnic dynamics in urban areas.
June 9, 2023 – July 28,
2023 - Blacksburg, Virginia
Visions
of Blacksburg is a visual journey of Blacksburg’s
history through photographs and maps at the Blacksburg
Museum & Cultural Foundation, 204 Draper Rd. SW. In addition
to photos, the exhibition includes maps of Blacksburg, as well as
Montgomery County beginning in 1789.
September 9, 2023 – April
27, 2024 – Boston
How do Bostonians get from here to
there in a city full of trains, trolleys, ferries, and more? Whether
in the familiar colored lines of today’s MBTA map or the
complicated timetables of long-vanished omnibus routes, maps have
long been an indispensable instrument for getting around town.
Getting Around
Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit will
feature an extraordinary collection of transit maps dating from the
seventeenth century to the present, and invites questions about how
people have moved around the city in the past, present, and future.
Exhibition can be seen in Leventhal
Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston Street. Guest curated by Steven Beaucher, author of Boston
in Transit and owner of WardMaps.
May 10, 2024 - August 31, 2024 –
Boston
In the early decades of nineteenth-century China, two
series of large-format maps, one terrestrial and one celestial, were
printed in the city of Suzhou. They were printed as eight loose
sheets using Prussian blue, the first large scale use of this pigment
in East Asia, in the unusual manner of a rubbing from a stone-stele,
resulting in most of the paper appearing in bright blue. The
terrestrial maps present the realm of the Qing Empire (1644–1911)
and selected surrounding regions. The four extant editions of the
celestial maps, dated to 1822 and 1826, present a planisphere of all
the known stars and extensive descriptions of known celestial bodies
and their related celestial mechanics. The exhibition Mapping
Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China considers these two
maps in the contexts of their production, consumption, and functions
revealing them as unique in the global history of mapmaking. Guest
curated by Dr. Richard Pegg, Director and Curator of the MacLean
Collection. Exhibition can be seen in Leventhal
Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston Street.