Exhibitions

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Atlas Maior Exhibition
An exhibition of Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior and other maps held at the University of Amsterdam Library’s Special Collections — and they appear to have quite the Blaeu collection — along with maps by his contemporaries, is now underway and… »
Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
A Most Dangerous Voyage
A Most Dangerous Voyage: An Exhibition of Books and Maps Documenting Four Centuries of Exploration in Search of a Northwest Passage takes place at the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections Library until August. The official exhibition page… »
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008 at 9:17 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Charting the Peaceful Sea
New Zealanders take note: Charting the Peaceful Sea: Maps of the Pacific, 1642-1846 is an exhibition taking place at the Dunedin Public Library until August 30. Twenty-one maps by more than eleven different explorers are on exhibit, which takes viewers… »
Posted on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art
Opening today at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Art Center and running until August 17: Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art. See also ArtDaily. Announced last year; see previous entry (the description is unchanged; the dates are not)…. »
Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
‘Mapping’ at the Discovery Center of Idaho
At the Discovery Center of Idaho in Boise until June 8, an exhibition called Mapping: The goal of Mapping is to put mapping tools, from sextants to software, in the hands of visitors and let them explore the science and… »
Posted on Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
The Mapping of Ukraine
The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550-1799, which opened yesterday at the Ukrainian Museum in New York, “includes 42 original maps published by European mapmakers over a 250-year period. A majority of the maps… »
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Map Art Exhibitions: The Map Show, Elise Wagner
At the Rockland Center for the Arts in West Nyack, New York, until April 8, The Map Show, an exhibition featuring several contemporary artists. The New York Times has a review: The show presents the work of eight artists… »
Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
An Exhibition Roundup
The Daily News Transcript of Norwood, Massachusetts, covers the exhibition of bird’s-eye-view maps, Boston and Beyond, at the Boston Public Library (see previous entry). I expect that Boston is easier to get to for most of my readers than Windhoek,… »
Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Restoring the Texaco Map
The Texaco Map was a large-scale replica of Rand McNally’s New York state road map on display — underfoot — under the Tent of Tomorrow at the New York State Pavillion during the 1964-1965 World’s Fair. The map comprised 567… »
Posted on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 7:20 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Schwartz Collection Exhibition Opens Monday
Seymour I. Schwartz, author of five books on the history of cartography,* is pledging his collection to the University of Virginia, which, in turn, is naming its map room in his honour today. About 50 of those 225 maps… »
Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 4:44 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions, History of Cartography
Boston-Area Map Exhibitions
At the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square through June, Boston and Beyond, a collection of bird’s-eye-view maps of Boston and New England from the second half of the 19th century. At Harvard University’s Pusey Library until April 1, Henry F…. »
Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Boston, Earth Sciences, Exhibitions, Globes, Surveying
Jeff Schmuki
Pattern Recognition is an exhibition of the work of Jeff Schmuki — “featuring sculptural ceramic works and installations that explore the relationship between cartography, documentary, memory and the natural/manmade landscape” — at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center at… »
Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
The Sheldon Tapestry
The Sheldon Tapestry Map of Gloucestershire is on display at Oxford’s Bodleian Library until February 23; the Library acquired the 16th-century tapestry at auction last year for more than £100,000. “The wool and silk tapestry … is part of a… »
Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 3:42 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
The editors of An Atlas of Radical Cartography wrote in to promote their book. “An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition;… »
Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 at 8:57 AM
Categories: Books, Exhibitions
William Kentridge’s Tapestries
At the Philadelphia Museum of Art until April 6, an exhibition of tapestries by the major South African artist, William Kentridge. The Porter tapestries “stem from a series of drawings in which he conjured shadowy figures from ripped construction… »
Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
V&A: Mapping the Imagination
At the Victoria and Albert Museum until April 27, Mapping the Imagination “includes maps made to inform or to entertain, maps enhanced by imaginative embellishments, maps that show imaginary places, and works in which artists have adapted map iconography to… »
Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 7:14 AM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
Landon Mackenzie
Houbart’s Hope, an exhibition by the Vancouver-based Landon Mackenzie, opens this Thursday at Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery in Montreal. “In Houbart’s Hope Mackenzie combines her interests in landscape, cartography and neuroscience. Although abstract in appearance, vestiges… »
Posted on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
Berrini Exhibition in San Francisco
New work by Francesca Berrini (see previous entry) is on display at the Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art gallery in San Francisco, SF Station reports: “Part designer, part surrealist cartographer, Portland-based Francesca Berrini creates fantastical geographies from maps that have… »
Posted on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
More on ‘Exploring the Early Americas’
The Library of Congress exhibit, Exploring the Early Americas, featuring the last surviving copy of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map, was reviewed by the Washington Post last week. Previously: Waldseemüller Map Exhibit Opens Thursday…. »
Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
New Paula Scher Exhibition
Paula Scher (see previous entry) returns to the Maya Stendhal Gallery in New York with an exhibition of new works. According to the gallery, “Scher expands on her highly acclaimed Maps series to create her most engaging work yet,… »
Posted on Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 5:55 PM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
Waldseemüller Map Exhibit Opens Thursday
The long-anticipated exhibit of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map — you know, the first one to name the New World “America” — opens this Thursday at the Library of Congress. The sole surviving copy of Waldseemüller’s map, which has… »
Posted on Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 5:20 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Tabula Peutingeriana: One Day Only
Nearly seven metres long and only 34 centimetres wide, the Tabula Peutingeriana is a 13th-century monk’s copy of a much older map of the Roman road network. This fascinating map stretches from Portugal to India — and stretch is… »
Posted on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 8:51 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Two Map Art Exhibitions
An exhibition of Matthew Picton’s art just wrapped up at the Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery in Portland, Oregon. “His cartography transforms the traditional two dimensional mapping system into a multi-layered sculpture of communication, transportation, and rivers,” says the gallery, “thus both… »
Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
Mapping Missouri at Missouri State
“Mapping Missouri: Maps from the Collection of the Missouri State Archives,” a touring exhibition of maps from the Missouri State Archives (see previous entry), is on display at Missouri State’s Meyer Library until August 22. Springfield News-Leader…. »
Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 4:23 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Global Cities: Tate Modern Exhibition
Global Cities, an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London until August 27, “looks at the changing faces of ten dynamic international cities: Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo.” Ogle Earth’s Stefan… »
Posted on Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 8:08 PM
Categories: Cities, Exhibitions
Hollar as a Mapmaker
A new display beginning July 20 in the Maps Reading Room lobby at the British Library: Hollar as a Mapmaker. “The display celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Czech artist and etcher Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677). Best known… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
A Map Exhibitions Roundup
Zoom (June 30 to August 18, Santa Monica, California). A group exhibition of map art at Santa Monica Art Studios’ Arena 1. “Working in the USA, Britain and Australia, all 19 artists in the show employ maps as resource material,… »
Posted on Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 4:14 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Art, Exhibitions
GPS Adventures
GPS Adventures “is a hands-on traveling exhibit that features GPS technology — its history, current uses and future possibilities; and simulates geocaching indoors by leading visitors through a 2,500 square foot maze rich with interactive experiences.” At Minnetrista, an… »
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 7:57 PM
Categories: Exhibitions, Geocaching
Mapping African Exploration
At Princeton University Library’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections from April 15 to October 21, an exhibition of African maps called To the Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration, 1541-1880: The library exhibition will feature some… »
Posted on Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 12:57 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
North by Northeast: Five Centuries of New England Maps
North by Northeast: Five Centuries of New England Maps is an exhibition running from March 31 to August 12 at the Flynt Center of Early New England Life in Historic Deerfield. “In addition to approximately 50 printed and manuscript… »
Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 9:32 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Wisconsin and Great Lakes Map Exhibition
On display at the University of Wisconsin’s Memorial Library until June 29, Making Maps, Making History: 300 Years of Original Maps from Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region: The exhibit features an illustrated, hand-colored map of North America made in… »
Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 1:14 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Rediscovered Maps at Brown University
An exhibit at Brown University’s John Hay Library opens on Monday and runs until April 25: it features some of more than one thousand maps “rediscovered” in that library. The collection represents the world throughout the time these maps… »
Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 8:52 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
The Evolution of Michigan Road Maps
Footpaths to Freeways: The Evolution of Michigan Road Maps is an exhibition now on display (until June) on the fourth floor of the west wing of Michigan State University’s Main Library; if you can’t visit, there is this online… »
Posted on Friday, March 16, 2007 at 8:27 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions, Roads
DePaul Exhibition: Imperial Cartographies
At the art museum in DePaul University’s Richardson Library (in Chicago) until March 18, an exhibit called Imperial Cartographies: Power, Strategy, and Scientific Discovery, which, according to the DePaulia article, “will trace how the world views power and geopolitics, the… »
Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 8:10 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Resistant Maps Report
Régine Debatty of We Make Money Not Art attended the Resistant Maps conference over the weekend, and has a two-part* report here and here. Summary: “It was a small, unaffected and friendly event but it was also one of… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 2:26 PM
Categories: Art, Conferences, Exhibitions
Resistant Maps
Geobloggers points to an upcoming conference/exhibition in Genoa, Italy this weekend: Resistant Maps: Artistic Actions in the Interconnected Urban Territory. The representation of territory holds a historical role in the privileges of power. Geographical data has always been in its… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 9:11 PM
Categories: Art, Conferences, Exhibitions
Shakespeare’s World in Maps
At the University of Michigan’s Clements Library until December 22: Shakespeare’s World in Maps. From the Ann Arbor News article: “The maps, many of them produced during Shakespeare’s lifetime, were selected from the Clements collection and include several rarely seen… »
Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 6:14 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Tolkien Maps at Upcoming Field Museum Exhibit
Between November 2 and January 27, there will be a maps exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago. Not many details yet, except that it’s called “Maps! The History of Cartography” and it’s co-sponsored by the Newberry Library — and… »
Posted on Sunday, September 3, 2006 at 2:16 PM
Categories: Exhibitions, Imaginary Places
Los Angeles Mapped; Jo Mora
Boing Boing links to Los Angeles Mapped, the online version of an exhibition of historical maps of Los Angeles on display through January 2007 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The maps on display are diverse in both subject… »
Posted on Monday, August 7, 2006 at 7:43 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Art, Exhibitions, Los Angeles
The Cartography of the Tropics
Vermessen: Kartographie der Tropen (“Between Cancer and Capricorn: The Cartography of the Tropics”) is an exhibition taking place at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin until August 27. The site is in German, but the introduction has been translated into English;… »
Posted on Friday, August 4, 2006 at 8:41 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
David Rumsey at the NYPL
New Yorkers, mark your calendars. David Rumsey will be speaking at the NYPL’s Healy Hall on Monday, May 22, at 5:30 PM. Admission is free; rush seating. His talk, “Thinking Locally, Mapping Globally: The Past and Future of Mapping,” is… »
Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 2:15 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Terres de Champagne-Ardenne
BibliOdyssey points to an exhibition of antique maps of the Champagne-Ardenne region of France: Terres de Champagne-Ardenne: Cinq siècles de cartographie (in French, naturally). The exhibition is touring various library locations in that region; the online version’s a bit complicated… »
Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 9:39 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Exhibition Roundup: Fort Worth, Texas; Hannibal, Missouri
Patterns of Progress, an exhibition of Texas bird’s-eye-view maps — previously covered here — is now running at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas until May 28. More than sixty highly detailed and oversized prints in this special… »
Posted on Monday, March 6, 2006 at 3:26 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Art, Cities, Exhibitions
Exhibition Roundup: NOAA, Versailles, Miami, Bangkok
Some upcoming map and map-related exhibitions to tell you about: Silver Spring, Maryland: From a NOAA press release: “Artifacts representing nearly 200 years of science, service and stewardship by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its ancestor agencies will… »
Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 7:59 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions, Nautical
The Other World’s Oldest Map
Never mind the Soleto Map: pottery doesn’t count as maps, apparently. The City of Turin (Torino), as part of its celebrations related to next month’s Winter Olympics, will have on display the first-century-BC Papyrus of Artemidorus, which, while several centuries… »
Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 3:20 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Globe Museum in Vienna
Opening today in Vienna, the Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library at its new digs in the refurbished Palais Mollard. The collection of more than 400 globes, 240 of which are on display, includes early modern globes by Mercator,… »
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 3:36 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions, Globes
Exhibition Roundup: Cartography of Globalization, Quivira Collection
At the Toronto Free Gallery until December 17, “Here Be Dragons: The Cartography of Globalization,” an exhibition of “counter-cartography”. From the gallery’s flash-based web site: “Recently, activists, artists and researchers have used the form of the map to visually represent… »
Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 11:56 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Paula Scher: The Maps
Paula Scher: The Maps is an exhibition of Scher’s paintings at the Maya Stendhal Gallery in New York; it runs until December 17. From the Gallery’s web site: “This show, consists of a series of twelve large-scale canvases — intricate,… »
Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 at 1:28 PM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
Lawrence’s Map of Arabia
An exhibition at the Imperial War Museum on the life of T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) includes a recently discovered “peace map” that outlined Lawrence’s postwar proposals for the Middle East. The map had been misfiled in the National… »
Posted on Monday, October 17, 2005 at 9:36 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
School Project Maps Road Hazards
Schoolchildren in Liverpool, as part of a safety project called “Our Walk to School,” have mapped their local areas in an attempt to highlight road and traffic hazards; the maps, on A4 paper, have been collected in an atlas which,… »
Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 11:38 AM
Categories: Education, Exhibitions, Traffic Conditions
Maps in Our Lives
Through January 6, a Library of Congress exhibition in the corridors of the Madison Building called Maps in Our Lives: “The exhibition explores four constituent professions represented by ACSM [the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping], the nation’s primary professional… »
Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 11:10 AM
Categories: Exhibitions, Surveying
Treasured Maps
Treasured Maps, an exhibition of more than 80 rare maps and atlases from the New York Public Library’s Map Division holdings, is on now through April 9, 2006 at the NYPL’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library (Fifth Avenue and 42nd… »
Posted on Sunday, September 18, 2005 at 9:58 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Real-time Cell Phone Map of Graz
Continuously changing real-time maps of cell phone usage in Graz, Austria, created by MIT researchers by tracking anonymous data from thousands of mobile phones, will appear as part of Kunsthaus Graz’s “M City: European Cityscapes” exhibition between October 1… »
Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 3:49 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Mapping the Northwest Passage
Of Maps and Men: In Pursuit of a Northwest Passage is an online exhibition from the Princeton University Library; it’s got an excellent collection of map scans: this page has 12 of them, dating from 1528 to 1907, which reflect… »
Posted on Monday, September 5, 2005 at 12:47 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Cartography 101 at the Johnsonese
Opening tomorrow at the Johnsonese Gallery in Chicago, an exhibition of map-based art called Cartography 101. The gallery’s web site has a few examples, but I expect they won’t stay on the front page after the show closes on September… »
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 at 8:52 AM
Categories: Art, Exhibitions
Maps from the State Library of New South Wales
Crux was a 2000 exhibition of rare maps from the State Library of New South Wales. The exhibition web pages aren’t nearly as interesting, though, as viewing all 89 maps from the exhibition via the library’s online catalogue, and you… »
Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 at 9:18 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Cartography Calendars
John Docktor maintains online calendars of upcoming cartography events and exhibitions…. »
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at 6:27 AM
Categories: Conferences, Exhibitions
Places and Spaces
Places and Spaces is an exhibit that’s been making the rounds, both online and in real life (it’s at Wikimania this weekend, for example). It compares and contrasts geographical maps with maps of less physical, more abstract things — cartograms,… »
Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 7:18 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Mapping Colonial America
“Mapping Colonial America” is (1) an online exhibit on the Colonial Williamsburg site, available in low-bandwidth and high-bandwidth Flash versions; (2) a real-life exhibit at the DeWitt Wallace Museum of Decorative Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, running until October 9; (3)… »
Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 10:58 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Sheffield Historical Society Exhibition
Through July 10 at the Old Stone Store in Sheffield, Mass., an exhibit from the Sheffield Historical Society called Mapping Our Way into the Future, featuring surveying equipment and regional maps from the 18th century to the present…. »
Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 at 10:43 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Asia Through Western Eyes
Another map exhibition in Taiwan: at the National Palace Museum in Taipei until August 31, The World and its Warp and Woof: A Special Exhibition of Antique Maps Donated by Prof. Johannes Hajime Iizuka, featuring 33 maps donated by Iizuka… »
Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 7:47 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Taiwan in Maps
“Taiwan in Maps,” an exhibition of maps from the 15th century to the present, runs through Sept. 18 at the National Taiwan Museum in Taipei, though as the Taipei Times reports, foreign tourists, at whom the exhibition is at least… »
Posted on Friday, May 27, 2005 at 10:32 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Cretan Map Exhibition
Candia — Creta — Crete, Space and Time, 16th to 18th Century, at Eynard Hall, the National Bank Cultural Foundation, Athens. From the Kathimerini: Through seven sections, arranged according to theme, the exhibition traces the island’s history through cartographic depictions,… »
Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2005 at 6:17 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Slovak Map Exhibition
At the Slovak National Museum in Bratislava until April 27: Slovakia in Maps from the 16th to the 20th Centuries…. »
Posted on Monday, April 18, 2005 at 5:31 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Mapping the Philippines; Mapping the Pacific Coast
Two exhibitions to report on in this entry, nearly half a world apart — but each dealing in some way with mapping the Pacific region in the early modern era. At Manila University in the Philippines until March 31, “Putting… »
Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 at 10:31 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Another Garrett Library Exhibition
Either there’s an awful lot of map-related activity going on at the University of Texas at Arlington’s Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library (see previous entry), or Google Alerts is particularly good at picking up their stories. Either way, here’s a… »
Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at 12:43 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Rosenbach Exhibition: You Are Here
Opening February 24 at the Rosenbach in Philadelphia: an exhibit called You Are Here: Maps and the Invention of Place: Using examples from the Rosenbach’s collection — which spans over 300 years of cartography — the exhibition considers the carefully… »
Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 at 6:33 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Garrett Library Exhibition
Ending January 15, a public exhibit by the Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library at the University of Texas at Arlington, Mapmaker’s Vision, Beholder’s Eyes: The Art of Maps. “The exhibit explores the elaborate artistry of cartography and seeks to answer… »
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 at 11:01 AM
Categories: Education, Exhibitions, Libraries
Exhibit in Wayland, Mass.
A small map exhibit at the Wayland Town Building in Wayland, Massachusetts — west of Boston — is running until Dec. 22. It’s called “The Art of Map Making, 1775-2005” and it focuses on local and regional maps; the article… »
Posted on Sunday, November 14, 2004 at 9:54 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Rare Maps of the Aegean
Rare maps of the Aegean from 1447 to 1800 are on display at an exhibition at the Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and Cultural Heritage — presumably in Athens — this month. I don’t have any other… »
Posted on Thursday, November 4, 2004 at 11:16 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Osher Map Library Online Exhibitions
I’ve linked to the University of Southern Maine’s Osher Map Library before, but I somehow missed the page listing all their online exhibitions. Via MetaFilter. (See previous entries: The Cartographic Creation of New England, Henry Popple’s Map, Early Highway Maps.)… »
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004 at 9:36 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Medieval Views of the Cosmos
There’s nothing online but a brief notice and a pamphlet, but at the very least it’s on right now, rather than several years ago: Medieval views of the Cosmos at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, from June 7 to October… »
Posted on Friday, June 18, 2004 at 7:51 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
Early Highway Maps
I’m a sucker for road maps, so I think I’ve saved the best of Plep’s three links to various Osher Map Library pages for last: an exhibition of early highway maps, called Road Maps: The American Way, that took place… »
Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 10:36 AM
Categories: Exhibitions, Roads
The Cartographic Creation of New England
Another exhibition that took place years ago but which still has a web presence: The Cartographic Creation of New England. With lots of images of early maps (the collection includes immediate post-discovery woodcuts from the late fifteenth century, and carries… »
Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 10:08 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Geist Gallery Details
The folks from Geist have e-mailed details on their Geist Gallery exhibition of maps from the magazine’s Caught Mapping series. The exhibition will take place at the Geist Gallery — “home of the Stupid School” — at 1054A Gerrard Street… »
Posted on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 at 11:58 AM
Categories: Exhibitions
Overland Maps
Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 (at the Library of Congress as Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869) has maps, including digital scans of a number of original maps from that period. (via Plep)… »
Posted on Wednesday, March 3, 2004 at 10:27 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions
Geist Exhibition, Media Coverage
Just received an e-mail from the folks at Geist magazine, whose Caught Mapping feature I’ve written about from time to time here on The Map Room. Among other things, they’re having a gallery show of the Geist maps in April… »
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 at 5:52 PM
Categories: Exhibitions
The Face of the Moon; Star Atlases
The Cartoonist has discovered the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology in Kansas City, which has quite a bit of stuff on celestial mapping. In addition to an exhibition of rare books and maps called The Face of… »
Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 12:12 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Astronomy, Exhibitions
Lewis and Clark Exhibition
“Lewis & Clark: The Maps of Exploration, 1507-1814 examines the planning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the cartographic tradition that made the expedition possible.” An exhibition at the University of Virginia Library. Via The Cartoonist. See previous entries:… »
Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 8:00 PM
Categories: Exhibitions

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