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.
Indefinite - Montreal
Treasures of the Museum at The Stewart Museum at the Fort, 20, chemin Tour de l'Isle, Île Sainte-Hélène.
Indefinite - Savannah
Mapping the Past: A Selection of Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection, lst Floor Map Galleries. Newton Center for
British-American Studies, Savannah College of Art and Design, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (2 doors north of the Savannah
Visitors Center). Open to the public free of charge Mon.-Fri. 10am-5pm; Sun. 1-5pm. Maps depicting North America, Great Britain,
Georgia, and the world are on view in the Newton Center's three map galleries. Highlights include 1597 maps from the earliest atlas of
the Americas, 1776 military maps, and other 18th- and 19th-century maps, many of them hand colored. Cartographers include
Wytfliet, Hondius, Monath, Lotter, d'Anville, Faden, Lodge, Cary, and Wyld. For further information or to arrange group tours,
Maureen Burke, Ph.D., Exec. Museum Director, Newton Center Museum; call (912) 525-7191.
Indefinite - The Hague
De verdieping van Nederland : duizend jaar Nederland aan de hand van topstukken uit de Koninklijke Bibliotheek en het Nationaal
Archief [The legacy of the Netherlands : a thousand years of Dutch history based on treasures from the National Library of the
Netherlands and the National Archives] is an exhibition at Prins Willem Alexanderhof of items from the National Library and National
Archives. Included are several manuscript and printed cartographic items. Open Monday till Saturday: 9.00 - 17.00, Tuesday evenings
from 17.00 - 20.00, Sunday: 12.00 - 17.00. Telephone information 070-3140911/070-3315400.
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 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, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
Indefinite - Washington
The Library of Congress presents Maps in Our Lives, an exhibition in recognition of a thirty-year partnership between the Library's
Geography and Map Division and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), the nation's primary professional
organization dedicated to the nation's surveying and mapping activities. This exhibition explores four constituent professions
represented by the ACSM - surveying, cartography, geodesy, and geographic information systems, and draws on both the Library's
historic map collections and the ACSM collection in the Library of Congress. The exhibit is in the foyer of the Geography and Map
Division in the basement of the Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue.
November 3, 2007 - May 9, 2010 - Texas
The exhibit, titled Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps, consists of 64 historic maps from the Yana and Marty Davis map
collection dating from 1548 to 2006. The exhibit will have maps that deal with railroads, shipping and trading posts. The maps range
from 16th-century exploration to the development of airlines. The book "Going to Texas" is based on the exhibit (Texas Christian
University Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0875653440). This exhibit will travel around Texas during its two-year tour. It can be seen at:
Old Red Museum of Dallas County History and Culture in Dallas - November 3, 2007 - February 28, 2008
Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon - March 13, 2008 - April 24, 2008
Museum of the Southwest in Midland - May 8, 2008 - June 19, 2008
Mayborn Museum Complex at Baylor University in Waco - July 3, 2008 - August 14, 2008
Museum of South Texas History in Edinburg - September 10, 2008 - October 12, 2008
Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock- November 6, 2008 - December 14, 2008
Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine - January 2, 2009 - February 21, 2009
Centennial Museum in El Paso - March 5, 2009 - April 16, 2009
Old Jail Art Center in Albany - June 6, 2009 - September 6, 2009
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth - April 2, 2010 - May 9, 2010
February 6, 2009 - January 10, 2010 - Springfield
To celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, the Illinois State Museum presents an interdisciplinary exhibition entitled
From Humble Beginnings: Lincoln's Illinois 1830-1861 which will explore the Illinois that Lincoln knew through objects and stories
of the people who lived here. Objects and artifacts from the exhibition include maps of Illinois from the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s.
February 12, 2009 - September 8, 2009 - Ithaca, New York
Darwin's Maps: A Natural Selection of Maps Darwin Used, Drew, Consulted, or Inspired is a display of maps mostly from Cornell
University collections and includes many maps pertinent to Darwin. On display in the Olin Library, Level B, in display cases of the
Map & Geospatial Information Collection of Cornell University. This exhibit is an accompaniment to the major exhibit "Charles
Darwin: After the Origin," operating in the same time period in the Hirshland Exhibition Gallery in the Division of Rare and
Manuscript Collection, Level 2B, at the Carl A. Kroch Library (in the same Olin Library Building). For information, contact (607)
255-7557.
February 28, 2009 - September 7, 2009 - St. Paul
The Minnesota Historical Society collection includes 19,000 maps and 2,000 volumes of atlases. They date to the late 1500s when the
area was labeled "terra incognita" or "unknown lands," said Patrick Coleman, Historical Society printed material curator. The Society
will showcase 100 of these maps in its exhibit Minnesota on the Map, at the Minnesota History Center, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd. The
exhibit accompanies the recently published book "Minnesota on the Map: A Historical Atlas."
February 28, 2009 - August 31, 2009 - Washington, Texas
The Star of the Republic Museum exhibits Texas Transformed: Early Maps of Texas in celebration of Texas Independence Day 2009.
Included in the exhibit will be the largest map of Texas, on loan from the Texas General Land Office, and measuring approximately
eight feet square. The map was drafted in 1879 by Charles W. Pressler, who worked for GLO for 50 years. Also included in the exhibit
will be Guillaume de Lisle's "Carte de la Louisiana et du Cours du Misissippi" (1718)--the first map to identify "Tejas" as a place. On
loan from the Center for American History at the University of Texas will be Fiorenzo Galli's "Texas" (1826) which has the distinction
of being the first printed map to show Texas separately from the rest of the continent. Maps by E.F. Lee (1836), J. Disturnell (1847)
and J. DeCordova (1849)--all used extensively by immigrants to Texas - will be on display, as well. Daily museum hours are 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. The Star of the Republic Museum, administered by Blinn College, is located in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site,
off Highway 105 on F. M. 1155 between Brenham and Navasota. For more information, call (936) 878-2461.
March 13, 2009 - August 30, 2009 - Florence
Galileo. Images of the universe from Antiquity to the Telescope is at Palazzo Strozzi. The exhibit celebrates 400 years since Galileo's
first observations of the night sky. More than 250 objects are on display including drawings and paintings, scientific instruments, star
maps, illuminated manuscripts, and ancient artifacts related to astronomy spanning the ages from pre-Greek to modern time.
March 19, 2009 - March 31, 2010 - Mason, Texas
The Mason Square Museum, 103 Fort MacKavitt, will present a new exhibit of Rare Maps of America and the lands that are now
Texas. Beginning with maps as early as 1595 by Magini and Porro, the display includes early cartography showing the shores of the
new world only a hundred years after its discovery. The collection includes maps by A. Ortelius from a small atlas of 1601 and a
decorative map of "Americae" by Gerard Mercator from 1610. Several examples show the progressive understanding of the shape
and errors in geographical information, including maps showing California as an island, and spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Mapmakers such as Philipp Cluver, G. De'Lisle, and Merian are represented and the political boundaries often change with
the nationality of the map publisher. The Mason Square Museum is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
For more information call 325 347 0507 or 325 347 6781.
March 22, 2009 - December 2009 - Jerusalem
A new exhibition, Echoes of Egypt, is at the Bible Lands Museum, 25 Granot Street. The exhibit celebrates the 30th anniversary of the
Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement. It includes photographs, lithographs and prints from 19th-century Egypt, as well as maps that date
back to the 16th century.
March 23, 2009 - August 15, 2009 - Baton Rouge
The exhibit Mariners, Meridians and Monsters: Exploring the History of Maps in Fact and Fiction is displayed in upper Main Gallery
of Hill Memorial Library on the Louisiana State University campus. The exhibit, part of LSU Libraries' Special Collections, explores
the many different kinds of maps that have been produced from ancient times to the present. Highlights include Abraham Ortelius'
1579 world atlas, Peter Heylin's Cosmographie (1679), early maps of the Pacific and the poles, an 18th-century reproduction of the
ancient Roman road map known as the Peutinger Table, archaeological maps from Napoleon's expedition to Egypt and even a map for
the blind. There also are sections on humorous maps, maps in fiction and mythology and bird's-eye views. The second half of the
exhibition is devoted to maps of Louisiana. Included are Louis Hennepin's 1683 map of North America, the first to name Louisiana;
important maps of the Mississippi River, an early Spanish plan of Baton Rouge, manuscript maps of local plantations, and a wide
selection of other maps tracing the history of the Civil War, LSU and tourism in the Bayou State. Library hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Friday, and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. When classes are in session, the library is open until 8 p.m. Tuesday. For more
information call (225) 578-6547.
April 4, 2009 - September 27, 2009 - New York
Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson, presented in collaboration with the New Netherland Project, Albany, and
the National Maritime Museum Amsterdam/Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam, is at the Museum of the City of New York,
1220 Fifth Avenue. It will employ rare 16th- and 17th-century objects, maps, images, and documents from major American and Dutch
collections to bring the transatlantic world to life and reveal how Henry Hudson's epic third voyage of exploration planted the seeds of
a modern society that took root and flourished in the New World. In 1609, Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East
India Company, made the first exploration of what is now New York Harbor and of the majestic river that today bears his name, laying
the foundation for the Dutch claim on the area. His voyage of discovery led to the creation of the Dutch West India Company and
ultimately to the founding of New Netherland, including its trading post at the mouth of the river - New Amsterdam.
April 4, 2009 - September 7, 2009 - Philadelphia
The shabby-looking tube of wood and varnished paper diagonally mounted in a case is meant to be the climactic object of Galileo, the
Medici and the Age of Astronomy, an important exhibition at the Franklin Institute, 222 North 20th Street. The tube looks as if it was
constructed out of the inner part of a huge roll of paper towels, but it is one of two surviving telescopes Galileo used in Florence in the
17th century Also on display are ornately decorated quadrants of enameled brass, metal calipers, arcane charts, minutely inscribed
maps, spheres within spheres like compass roses from other worlds, codexes and manuscripts, cylinders, dials, rings, rods and boxes.
They are all instruments of exploration and investigation, models of planetary and stellar motion, surveying instruments and
mapmaking equipment. Nearly all were made during two centuries of the Italian Renaissance. And as presented here they are the
accomplishments of a culture created by the patronage of the Medici dynasty in Florence, rulers whose portraits are on display. These
objects come from the Medici's collection, once housed in the Uffizi Gallery not far from the artworks they were meant to
complement. Now they are part of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, which is undergoing renovation
and is to reopen in the fall.
April 14, 2009 - September 20, 2009 - Burlington, Vermont
In celebration of the quadricentennial anniversary of French explorer and cartographer Samuel de Champlain's travels to the lake that
bears his name, the Fleming Museum, 61 Colchester Avenue, is organizing A Beckoning Country: Art and Objects from the Lake
Champlain Valley. For thousands of years, Lake Champlain has drawn people to its shores and to the land it nourishes. A Beckoning
Country examines the features of the Champlain Valley landscape through the objects and art created from and inspired by them.
Organized around a geological and natural history framework -water, earth, flora, and fauna- the exhibition will include both pre- and
post-European contact material, such as stone tools, maps, furniture, textiles, and baskets, as well as paintings and drawings that
depict and celebrate the region's physical landscape.
April 23, 2009 - September 6, 2009 - London
2009 marks the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the throne. In celebration of this landmark, the historian and
broadcaster Dr David Starkey will guest-curate the major new exhibition at the British Library, St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, Henry
VIII: Man and Monarch. This unique exhibition looks beyond the myths and stereotypes surrounding Henry VIII, to address the inner
intellectual journey of Henry's monarchy and re-examine the perceptions of the great Tudor monarch. Among the exhibits will be
autographs, maps, objects of decorative art - tapestries and jewelry - and weapons. Books, manuscripts and letters written or
annotated by Henry will offer an unprecedented insight into the mind of the king, revealing the driving forces behind his actions, and
telling the story of his reign from his own perspective.
April 28, 2009 - June 29, 2009 - Baton Rouge
Since the dawn of man's existence, we have been gazing toward the heavens in fascination. The Louisiana Art and Science Museum's
exhibit Celestial Images: Four Hundred Years of Mapping the Heavens explores man's attempt to describe and depict the heavenly
bodies and their movement across the sky. The exhibition is made up of celestial maps dating from the sixteenth through nineteenth
centuries, a time period that is considered the golden age of celestial mapmaking.
May 2, 2009 - January 1, 2010 - Mystic, Connecticut
Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark, The Quivira Collection, an exhibition of rare and historic maps dating
from 1544 to 1802, will be at Mystic Seaport. On loan from the private collection of Henry and Holly Wendt of Washington, the
traveling exhibit features more than 30 historic maps, illustrations and books. The exhibit takes viewers along a chronological journey,
beginning with the collection's oldest map - a rare 1544 woodcut by Sebastian Munster - and ending with Thomas Jefferson's decision
to commission the Corps of Discovery.
May 6, 2009 - October 23, 2009 - Middlebury, Vermont
Samuel de Champlain was not only known as the founder of New France, he was also a skilled cartographer. In recognition of the
Champlain Quadricentennial, the Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park Street, has an exhibit Mapping Champlain's New World. This
exhibit features a stunning private collection of maps chronicling the evolution of the Lake Champlain region, Vermont and the United
States from 1640 to 1911. Visitors will see how successive layers of land acquisition and use were made manifest as mapmakers
depicted European conquest and settlement. Maps express the cultural, economic and political ideals of their makers and of the
audiences for which they were made. The exhibit will encourage the public to think critically about the meanings of the maps they see
every day.
May 18, 2009 - November 1, 2009 - Washington
Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings, the International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, utilizes rare
surviving Native and European artifacts, maps, documents, and ceremonial objects from museums and royal collections on both sides
of the Atlantic. The result is a path-breaking exhibition. A 1622 broadside advises English settlers on what to pack for their journey to
the Virginia. A wampum belt from the French royal collection illustrates how gift-giving became an important tactic as the French
sought alliances with the Huron people. Spanish armor engraved with Christian symbols exemplifies the religious dimension of the
Spanish conquest of New Mexico. The Smithsonian's International Gallery, located in the S. Dillon Ripley Center on the National Mall
at 1100 Jefferson Drive S.W.
May 20, 2009 - October 12, 2009 - New York
Through the use of virtual technology, the Museum of the City of New York, located at 1220 Fifth Ave., will take visitors back to the
Manhattan of 400 years ago, in the new cuttingedge exhibition Mannahatta/ Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City. This
installation will offer a rare vision of the present-day metropolitan area and its natural history by using the latest techniques in
computational geography and visualization to simulate the wilderness that thrived for many centuries, before 400 years of building
transformed the area. Visitors will learn about the animals, meandering streams and other natural phenomenon, as well as the native
people that populated the densely forested island, which was known as Mannahatta prior to the arrival of Europeans. The exhibit
includes digital recreations and other forms of multimedia, as well as historical artifacts, maps, paintings, drawings and more.
May 22, 2009 - October 18, 2009 - Blue Mountain Lake, New York A 'Wild, Unsettled Country': Early Reflections of the Adirondacks is on display at the Adirondack Museum. Maps, paintings, prints, and photographs illustrate the untamed Adirondack wilderness discovered by early cartographers, artists, and photographers. A dozen rare and significant maps from the collection of the museum's research library demonstrate the growth of knowledge about the Adirondacks. These include the "1704 Edition of Lahontan's Voyages" by the Baron Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce Lahontan and the "Chronological Map of the Province of New York in North America Divided into Counties, Manors, and Townships . . . ," by Claude Joseph Sauthier, 1779. Open daily 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
May 22, 2009 - September 7, 2009 - Boston
A new exhibit, A World View in Maps, at the State Library of Massachusetts, 24 Beacon Street, highlights original, decorative maps
created and published in the 1930s and 1940s by Ernest Dudley Chase, a graphic artist from Winchester. Born in Lowell, Chase
(1878-1966) worked for Rust Craft Publishers, which printed greeting cards at its plant in Dedham. Chase was the acknowledged
expert in the greeting card business in the United States with publication of his book "The Romance of Greeting Cards" (1926), the
first complete history of the greeting card industry. Chase's maps were an extension of his work as a graphic artist for Rust Craft and
also reflected an international trend toward pictorial mapmaking. These decorative maps, which experienced resurgence in public
popularity after 1913, are a genre in which the cartography is animated with illustrations of buildings, people, and animals. Often
including historical references, the maps also frequently depicted airplanes and other modes of transportation. Borrowing from typical
Renaissance cartography, Chase and other pictorial mapmakers used embellishments like compass roses, ornate cartouches, and
decorative borders. This free exhibit will be on display, Monday-Friday 9 am-5pm, outside the State Library of Massachusetts, Room
341 of the State House.
May 23, 2009 - January 3, 2010 - Greenwich
Adventure, failure and disaster in one of the most hostile environments on Earth will be the subjects tackled in a new exhibition at the
National Maritime Museum. North-West Passage: An Arctic Obsession features more than 120 objects including maps, letters and
native Inuit artefacts, aimed at bringing British exploration of the Arctic to life.
May 28, 2009 - August, 2009 - Whippany, New Jersey
Exhibit of maps at Hanover Town Hall, Route 10 West and Jefferson Road, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. The collection of
antique hand-painted color maps belonging to Ken and Cindy Schleifer and will be displayed through August. The exhibit is sponsored
by the township's Cultural Arts Committee.
June 2, 2009 - August 23, 2009 - New York
For hundreds of years before the old masters, medieval artists explored and tested the medium of drawing, producing whimsical
sketches, intriguing graphic treatises, and finished drawings of marvelous refinement. Gathering some 70 works from the 9th to the
early 14th century, Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages will be the first exhibition to celebrate the quality and range of
drawings from the Middle Ages. Early maps, artists' sketchbooks, and masterfully decorated manuscripts-rarely seen objects borrowed
from European and American libraries and museums-will appear alongside related works in ivory, enamel, and stained glass. At the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue.
June 3, 2009 - August 16, 2009 - Bismarck
An exhibit, Finding North Dakota: 250 Years of Mapping, will be featured at Camp Hancock State Historic Site at 101 West Main
Street. This exhibit offers a fascinating look at how explorers and map makers have visualized the place North Dakotans now call
home. Eighteenth Century maps of "America" to modern aerial and topographic maps illustrate how changes in technology separate
early maps, based on observations, from modern maps, which use satellites to identify geographic features. Maps document land forms
and natural resources, trade routes and passageways, soil types and waterways. The oral traditions of Native peoples preserved the
names of rivers, buttes, and ancestral villages. The exhibit is in the Bread of Life Church at the site.
June 8, 2009 - September 8, 2009 - Jakarta
"For anyone committing bad deeds, showing disobedience and disloyalty to the king, then bad luck will fall upon them.," reads text
written upon the Kota Kapur inscription at the exhibition Treasures of Sumatra in the National Museum in Central Jakarta. Named
after the location it was found - Kota Kapur village in Bangka Island - the message is inscribed in ancient Malay and dates back to the
7th Century, when the great Sriwijaya Kingdom ruled over Sumatra. The inscription also provides important information about
Sriwijaya's attempts to conquer the island of Java. Historic inscriptions, maps, manuscripts, statues, Chinese ceramics and sultanate
regalia, all originated from the past kingdoms of Sumatra, are on display in the exhibition.
June 13, 2009 - January 10, 2010 - Yonkers, New York
When Henry Hudson's vessel, the Half Moon, sailed into New York Harbor in 1609, his voyage marked the unfolding of a New
World. The Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Avenue, will mark the anniversary of Hudson's voyage to the New World with
the exhibition Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture. The exhibition will explore the Dutch legacy of a liberal,
capitalist and multicultural environment that permeated the colony of New Netherland and still characterizes New York City today.
The museum will bring the story of Dutch influence to life through paintings, decorative arts, maps and ephemera drawn from the
museum's collections and from other museums, including the Museum of the City of New York, the National Gallery of Art, the New
York Historical Society, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and Yale University Art Gallery.
June 16, 2009 - July 26, 2009 - Tokyo
Maps of the World and Japan are on display at Thematic Exhibition Room, Heiseikan, Tokyo National Museum, 13-9 Ueno Park,
Taito-ku. Maps of the world began to be produced from the 15th century, based on explorations and surveys conducted by Europeans
when they first began to circumnavigate the globe. Representative of these early efforts in cartography is the Great Map of Ten
Thousand Countries, produced in Ming-dynasty China at the beginning of the 17th century by an Italian Jesuit missionary named
Matteo Ricci. Maps such as these, drawn by Europeans, were imported to Japan during the turmoil of the war era through to the time
of unification in the late 16th century, when Japan was developing a broader world view and opening up to outside nations. These
maps played an important role in the spread of geographical knowledge among Japanese people. In the Edo period (1603-1868), when
the unrest began to stabilize, local efforts in land measurement and topographical surveying provided the people with a more precise
understanding of their homeland, and from this time on, maps of Japan were actively produced. Whilst comprised of only few works,
this exhibition marks the first time for a folding screen featuring the Great Map of Ten Thousand Countries, donated to the museum
last year, to be displayed to the general public. Other works on display include world maps dating from the Edo period as well as maps
of Japan which developed in parallel. The representations of Japan in the maps created by Europeans are especially interesting to note..
June 23, 2009 - August 23, 2009 - Mumbai
Mumbai is accustomed to being soaked by the monsoon. The rains of July 26, 2005, however, flooded the city. Hundreds died and
property wasted as parts of Mumbai went under several feet of water for days on end. The exhibition SOAK-Mumbai in an Estuary, at
National Gallery of Modern Art, MG Road, sets out to understand Mumbai's `islandness' by considering its duality as coastline and
estuary through a communion of maps, graphics, landscape drawings, photographs and type. It begins by recalling the island's
vulnerability through an exhibition of photographs and AVs of the July 26, 2005 flooding when people watched the water pile up
outside their windows.
Part One of the exhibit is `Coastline', a cartographical expedition through approximately 72 historic maps, sea charts, and views from
the 16th century onward. It not only reminds us that colonial maps, with a view to simplify, have conditioned us to view land from
above, but it also points out the flaws of such a static perspective. And by showing us Mumbai's inherited aloofness from the mainland
before forced reclamation, it reminds us of the aqueous nature of the archipelago.
`Estuary', part two, looks more closely at Mumbai as land sitting at the doorway between river and sea. The Mithi, it points out, is not
a river accomodated in Mumbai, but a river that accommodates Mumbai as it sweeps around and under it. "More than just a failure of
a drainage system or a failure of planning, this disaster (the July floods) is a failure to visualise a terrain that just beneath the surface, is
fluid and dynamic,'' a poster admonishes.
June 24, 2009 - November 30, 2009 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Gleams of a Remoter World: Mapping the European Alps explores how European cartographers over the centuries have responded to
the challenge of mapping the Alps. It surveys the range of techniques employed to represent mountains in graphic form: from the
stylized hill profiles of Renaissance maps to recent topographic maps that combine contours, hill shading, rock drawing, and landscape
tints to create a naturalistic, three-dimensional impression of the terrain. The exhibit looks at a variety of cartographic genres,
including maps celebrating military conquest, panoramic views for tourists, guides for hikers and skiers, national surveys, and
transportation maps. Exhibit can be seen at Map Gallery Hall, Pusey Library, Harvard College Library. Hours 9:00 - 5:00, Monday -
Friday. For details contact Joseph Garver 617-495-2417.
June 25, 2009 - July 31, 2009 - Makati City, Philippines
Filipino and Spanish Antique Maps exhibit is at Yuchengco Museum, RCBC Plaza, Corner Ayala and Senator Gil J. Puyat Avenues
(Upper Wing Gallery, 4th floor). The exhibit features 40 antique maps from Filipino and Spanish collections. This exhibit is presented
by the Spanish Embassy in the Philippines, the Philippine Maps Collectors' Society, and the Yuchengco Museum in celebration of
Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day on June 20.
June 25, 2009 - January 17, 2010 - Manchester
A unique collection of rare Manchester maps reveals how worries about congestion and binge drinking were just as prevalent
100-years-ago as they are today. The drawings, part of an exhibition of 80 maps unseen in public for up to 200 years, can be seen at
The Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate. On display at Mapping Manchester - Cartographic Stories of the City
is material held by The University of Manchester and other institutions in the city, including generous loans of materials from the
Manchester City Library and Archives, Chetham's Library and the Manchester Geographical Society.
July 3, 2009 - March 7, 2010 - Albany
The New York State Museum, Empire State Plaza, exhibit 1609 honors the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson's discovery of the
Hudson River, with documents, maps and images. The New York State Museum collaborated with the State Archives, State Library,
and Office of Educational Television and Public Broadcasting on 1609, and these institutions provided additional expertise,
documents, and artifacts for the exhibition. Phone (518) 474-5877 for additional information.
July 15, 2009 - October 11, 2009 - Lisbon
Two years ago, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC put together a special exhibition called Encompassing the Globe:
Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries. It explained "how Portugal brought the world together" during the Age of
Discovery and its pioneering role in global trade. The items displayed were loaned from museums around the world, and included
maps, sculptures, and paintings. It will now be shown in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Rua das Janelas Verdes, Lapa.
Additionally you can also see some additional Portuguese treasures not shown in the previous exhibitions. It's being called Lisbon's
most important exhibition in 2009, with a total of 180 pieces from 95 foreign collections, including those of the Louvre in Paris,
Viena's Albertina, Berlin's Staatliche Museen, London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Library. The additional
Portuguese works are those that are not allowed to ever leave the country, including Japanese screens showing the Portuguese
arriving in Japan, and the Monstrance of Belem adorned with priceless gems.More than explaining Portugal's role in the first global
empire, this exhibition also shows the influences of European culture around the world and vice versa due to commercial, cultural, and
scientific exchanges. Debates and special gastronomic events are also being planned, with everything costing around three million
euros, a price worth paying for such a rich exhibition which will bring improvements to the Ancient Art Museum in the future. Open
Wednesday-Sunday 10AM-6PM; Tues. 2PM-6PM. Closed Mondays and Tuesday mornings. Telephone (351) 21 391 28 00.
July 17, 2009 - August 14, 2009 - Lakeway, Texas
The Lakeway Heritage Center, 963 Lohmans Crossing, exhibit Crossroads of Empire: Early printed Maps of the American Southwest
features maps from 1512 to 1873. This exhibit will also show the difficulties of map making and how easy it was to incorrectly depict a
region. Open 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Closed during noon hour. Phone (512) 608-9533.
July 24, 2009 - August 28, 2009 - Chichester
West Sussex Record Office, 3 Orchard Street, might not seem the most likely place to go to see the earliest ever telescopic
observations of the moon. But one of the collections that the Record Office administers, on behalf of Lord Egremont, the owner, is the
Petworth House Archives. And in the Petworth House Archives are scientific papers of Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), who was one of
the principal scientists of his day. His papers are in the Petworth House Archives because he was employed by the 9th Earl of
Northumberland, from whom Lord Egremont's family are descended. 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Harriot's moon
observations. The earliest of these is dated 26 July 1609, which proves that Harriot was observing the moon through a telescope
months before Galileo, who is usually credited with the first observations. 2009 is also the International Year of Astronomy, and a
number of events are being organised for that. At West Sussex Record Office, there will be an exhibition showing not only Harriot's
moon maps, but also his observations of sunspots, Jupiter's satellites, and the comet that Halley saw and named on its subsequent
appearance.
July 25, 2009 - October 18, 2009 - Nottingham, Derbyshire
Picturing Britain: Paul Sandby is a major exhibition of the work of the artist and topographical draughtsman Paul Sandby
(1731-1809). Commemorating the bicentenary of his death, this is the first exhibition devoted to this pioneering figure in the
development of British landscape painting and topographical drawing. Sandby was appointed chief draughtsman to the Roy Military
Survey in 1747. Although he was an artist well-versed in continental traditions, his early employment as a map-maker and
topographical draughtsman led him to produce carefully observed and composed views of the native British landscape, including
scenes taken in and around London, or on extensive tours through England, Wales and Scotland. The exhibition features works lent
by the Royal Collection, National Library of Scotland, Yale Centre for British Art, and the British Museum. The exhibition opens in
Nottingham (where Sandby was born) at the Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibit moves to the National Gallery
of Scotland, Edinburgh: 7 November 2009 - 7 February 2010; and finally the Royal Academy of Arts, London: 13 March 2010 - 13
June 2010. A richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
August 8, 2009 - October 4, 2009 - Loveland, Colorado
In conjunction with the Loveland Art Museum, the Rocky Mountain Map Society will be co-sponsoring an exhibit entitled, Quest -
Trail Maps of the American West. It will be in the lower gallery of the museum in downtown Loveland. The exhibit will consist of
maps and books with maps, loaned to the museum from the private collections of Rocky Mountain Map Society members. The focus
of the exhibit will be maps showing the establishment and development of overland transportation routes to the far west prior to the
railroads. In addition to emigrant trails, an emphasis will be placed on the Colorado Gold Rush.
September 11, 2009 - January 3, 2010 - New York
Exploring the beginnings of New York as a pluralistic seaport and crossroads of goods and cultures that continues to shape American
character and identity, the South Street Seaport Museum, 207 Front Street, will present New Amsterdam: The Island at the Center of
the World. The exhibition will be the centerpiece of a citywide celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of
New York's harbor under the Dutch flag. The program will commemorate the founding of New Amsterdam by Dutch traders who
planted the seed for enduring American characteristics, such as diversity, tolerance, and free trade. New Amsterdam: Island at the
Center of the World will offer insight into Manhattan's fabled past as America's greatest natural harbor. The Dutch established the
harbor before the British took control of it in 1664, a period in New York's history that has long been overlooked. Forward-thinking
Dutch recognized the importance of New York as a gateway into the new world and played a significant role in the development of
the port from a remote trading post into a global economic, cultural, and political center. The exhibition will narrate the story of
Manhattan's beginnings with more than 50 rare maps, landscapes, broadsides, prints, portraits, and letters, illuminating 17th-century
New York life. These artifacts will be accompanied by maps of important world cities of the era, allowing visitors to learn about the
founding of New York in the context of international urban history and growing trade networks. New Amsterdam: Island at the
Center of the World will be organized into three thematic sections. One section is dedicated to the work of 17th-century cartographer
Johannes Vingboons, who drew hundreds of maps of cities and trading posts worldwide. The maps serve as a window into the
competitive arena of global commerce in the 1600s, showing the settlements of Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch trading companies in
places as far flung as Nova Scotia and Japan. Visitors will be able to trace the origins of the first generation of New Yorkers who
traveled thousands of miles across the sea to work in, and ultimately settle, New Amsterdam, which quickly emerged as a 17th-century
global trade hub. Another section includes rare maps, views, and plans of Manhattan Island from the 1660s.
September 25, 2009 - June 26, 2010 - New York
Mapping New York's Shoreline: 1609-2009 is at the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This is a
"Hudson-Fulton-Champlain exhibition" that will take the waterside view of New York harbor and its neighboring watersheds,
wetlands, coastlines, sounds, and shores. The exhibition will put the port in its historic context at the midpoint along the northwest
coast of the Atlantic, a point aimed at by Henry Hudson as he sought the mythical Northwest Passage to Asia. The Dutch settled in the
area when it was found to be a convenient port for trans-shipment of furs and pelts back across the North Atlantic to Amsterdam. The
British found it handy to bivouac here throughout the American Revolution, and mapped and charted the area thoroughly during their
stay. Once the United States was established, the need for accurate, locally produced charts was met by private concerns and the
newly established United States Survey of the Coast. With the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, the port of New York came into its
own as a major export station for wheat, corn and other produce from the heart of America. The complexity of the piers and ferries
and shoreline businesses gives a vibrancy and unique flavor to the maps and charts of the port of New York and neighboring waters:
Connecticut River, Long Island Sound, the Raritan, Sandy Hook, the Jersey shore and the Delaware River. This entire area was once
called Nieuw Nederland, an aspect of local history that is much forgotten.
September 27, 2009 - January 10, 2010 - Houston
To mark the 40th anniversary of manīs landing on the moon, the Museum of Fine Arts presents The Moon: "Houston, Tranquility
Base Here. The Eagle has Landed," an exhibition that chronicles manīs enduring fascination over five centuries with our nearest
planetary neighbor. Ranging from moonlit landscapes by the Old Masters and the Impressionists, to Ansel Adamsī iconic Moonrise,
Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) and shots famously taken on the moon by the members of Apollo 11, the exhibition provides a
dazzling overview of five centuries of moon-gazing. In addition, early scientific instruments, books, moon globes, maps, Galileo
Galileiīs 1610 treatise on the moon, and objects from NASA will be on view. The Moon will be presented in the Audrey Jones Beck
Building, 5601 Main Street.
October 15, 2009 - August 21, 2010 - Portland, Maine
American Treasures celebrates the reopening of the newly renovated and expanded Osher Map Library and Smith Center for
Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, by simultaneously exploring the library's rich and varied collections and its
mission to make those collections accessible. The exhibition presents a sampling of some of the library's remarkable items from its
focus on Maine and New England, the USA, and the Americas (North and South). These items demonstrate how OML's collections
are incorporated into K-12 and undergraduate education, public education through exhibitions, and scholarly research with wide
import. The result is a visually stunning show that reinforces how maps offer such compelling insights into the past that anyone,
regardless of age or educational level, can enjoy and learn from them - they are indeed a treasure.
October 19-31, 2009 - San Bernardino, California
A collection of Ottoman-era maps from the great Ottoman Turkish cartographers of the 16th and 17th centuries -- Admiral Pîrî Reis
and scholar Kâtip Çelebi -- is on display at Anthropology Museum in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Building, SB-307,
California State University, San Bernardino. The show is a tribute to Kâtip Çelebi, the well-known 17th century historian, geographer
and bibliographer, on the 400th anniversary of his birth. The Ottomans' Worldview: from Pîrî Reis to Kâtip Çelebi includes detailed
maps from the two prominent men who made some of the most important contributions to Ottoman geography and cartography
together. The show also features maps from other geographers of the 16th and 17th centuries as well as maps of Ottoman territories
from various European geographers of the time.
November 7, 2009 - February 7, 2010 - Edinburgh
Picturing Britain: Paul Sandby is a major exhibition of the work of the artist and topographical draughtsman Paul Sandby
(1731-1809) at the National Gallery of Scotland. Commemorating the bicentenary of his death, this is the first exhibition devoted to
this pioneering figure in the development of British landscape painting and topographical drawing, and it includes works lent by the
Royal Collection, National Library of Scotland, Yale Centre for British Art, and the British Museum. Sandby was appointed chief
draughtsman to the Roy Military Survey in 1747. Although he was an artist well-versed in continental traditions, his early employment
as a map-maker and topographical draughtsman led him to produce carefully observed and composed views of the native British
landscape, including scenes taken in and around London, or on extensive tours through England, Wales and Scotland. The exhibit
moves to the Royal Academy of Arts, London: 13 March 2010 - 13 June 2010. A richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the
exhibition.
March 13, 2010 - June 13, 2010 - London
Picturing Britain: Paul Sandby is a major exhibition of the work of the artist and topographical draughtsman Paul Sandby
(1731-1809) at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly. Commemorating the bicentenary of his death, this is the
first exhibition devoted to this pioneering figure in the development of British landscape painting and topographical drawing, and it
includes works from the Royal Collection, National Library of Scotland, Yale Centre for British Art, and the British Museum. .
Sandby was appointed chief draughtsman to the Roy Military Survey in 1747. Although he was an artist well-versed in continental
traditions, his early employment as a map-maker and topographical draughtsman led him to produce carefully observed and composed
views of the native British landscape, including scenes taken in and around London, or on extensive tours through England, Wales and
Scotland. A richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.