October 10, 2001 - January 19, 2002 - Chicago
What makes a map timeless? Is it rarity, age, or beauty? Is it historical importance? Is it accuracy of depiction and usability? The
Newberry Library will mount an extraordinary exhibit, Cartographic Treasures of the Newberry Library, that addresses the question
"What is a map treasure?" Drawing from the Newberry's world-renowned collection of over 300,000 maps, the exhibit features 80
selections drawn from each of the Newberry's major collections, including several important recent acquisitions. The maps are
divided into six sections, which represent the fundamental ways that maps have been used throughout the centuries:
"Grasping the World" includes several landmarks of early atlas-making, innovative world maps, pedagogical maps, and globes and
games that reflect the human desire to comprehend the world and give it meaningful form.
"Conquering Distances" relates how maps have brought people together by assisting in the development and use of transportation networks.
"Inventing the Nation" examines how maps and atlases have been employed to support European and American nation-building as
tools of government, colonization, and political propaganda.
"Contesting Places" illustrates how maps have been used as tools of warfare, negotiation, and commemoration throughout history.
"Celebrating the City" reflects on how maps and views capture the essence of urban geography, architecture, and social life.
"Plotting the Countryside" demonstrates the various ways in which maps served in the land division, settlement, and rural landscape
designs.
The exhibit concludes with the message that, above all, maps are treasured because they answer the universal human need to comprehend and function in the world around them. "Cartographic Treasures is an item-driven exhibit-a sweeping display of the breadth and significance of the Newberry's map collections and our most recent acquisitions," said Jim Akerman, curator and director of the Newberry's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. Maps are more than a diagram of how to get from here to there. They are a reflection of the time and place they were created and the people they directed. They are art, history, politics, and discovery drawn in symbols, rather than written in words. Maps tell history as much as they depict it. If you have any questions, please contact Erika Kneen, Public Relations Manager, The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago 60610, Phone: (312) 255-3553, Fax: (312) 255-3543.
October 20, 2001 - January 20, 2002 - Baltimore
The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, telephone 410-547-9000, will unveil its new Manuscript Gallery as part of its
Grand Reopening. The inaugural exhibition, entitled Expanding World Views: A Millennium of Maps, brings to the fore a selection
of very rare, beautiful, and seldom-seen maps from the museum's permanent collection, supplemented by several special loans.
Expanding World Views displays concepts of the Earth's role in the universe as well as changing accounts and perceptions of lands
and seas in the four corners of the world. The earliest maps on view in the exhibition date to the 12th century; the latest is a satellite
image of Baltimore taken from space earlier this year. Representing the sea of change between the Middle Ages and today are some
30 manuscripts (made entirely by hand); incunables (the first printed books, from ca. 1450 to 1500); rare books; framed prints; and
one Copernican armillary planetarium, a rare metal teaching instrument that displays the movement of the planets around the sun.
Most of the manuscripts and printed books on display are European or Near Eastern in origin.
October 23, 2001 - February, 2002 - Jerusalem
The Israel Museum will have an exhibition with the title Cartographic Images of the Holy Land. Included will be maps from the Bier
Map Collection and globes on loan from Austrian National Library, Globe Museum, Vienna.
November 15, 2001 - February 1, 2002 - Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Tentoonstelling Hoogtepunten van de Friese cartografie [Exhibition Highlights of the Friesian cartography] at the Ryksargyf
Friesland [State Archives of Friesland], The Netherlands, Boterhoek 3. The exhibition shows the maps which are featured in a
recently published book with same title as the exhibition.
November 16, 2001 - February 14, 2002 - Venice
Carte di Riso, an exhibition of Chinese manuscript maps of the Società Geografica Italiana in the Biblioteca Marciana. The exhibition
shows a part (a very small one, around 50 of 2,000 pieces) of the impressive collection of manuscript maps from China and Nippon
gave as gift to the Società Geografica by Italian ambassadors in the East during the end of XIX century and the beginning of the next
one. The material is of great value from the technical, historical and artistical points of view; and it is almost unknown to the world
of history of cartography being only in the very recent years properly described, restored and open to the public.
January 17, 2002 - March 28, 2002 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Broward County Libraries Division's Bienes Center for the Literary Arts presents Florida: The Making of a State, A Cartographic
Adventure. The exhibition will showcase approximately 40 maps and accompanying art works, photographs, realia and ephemera
dating from the late 1600s to 1900s that trace the discovery and colonization of the New World territory known as Florida.
Additionally, four sub-themes will focus on:
The Seminole Indian Wars
Waterways and Boating
The Creation of Broward County
Dredging and Drainage
In the exhibition, viewers will be taken on a graphic chronological tour that both accurately and inaccurately depicts the early discoveries in the exploration of the region. It will feature maps and other items on loan from the Library of Congress, the Broward County Historical Commission and various local collectors. A printed catalog containing an introduction to the world of cartography will be published to accompany the exhibit. It will include essays by the prominent map historian and collector, Joseph H Fitzgerald. For information on the exhibition and related events contact James Findlay, Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Broward County Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301, 954-357-8692 (voice), 954-357-6762 (fax).
November 30, 2001 - April 1, 2002 - Venice
The Civic Museum has an exhibition of 15th - 18th century Isolari e portolani del Museo. The many documents show the relationship
of Venice with the sea, and its place in commerce between Europe and the East.
July 27, 2001 - April 7, 2002 - London
Lie of the Land - the secret life of maps at the British Library. Fascinating and unexpected stories in maps, old and new! "What we
see on a map is rarely the same as the land under our feet. Some maps deliberately set out to deceive. Many show a selective view
and reflect only the interests of the people who made them. Stunning maps from ancient to modern reveal a secret world for you to
discover. In every case there is more than meets the eye..." Admission is free. The exhibition hours are:- Monday; Wednesday to
Friday 9.30 - 18.00; Tuesday (evening opening) 9.30 - 20.00; Saturday 9.30 - 17.00; Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday 11.00 -
17.00 [NB the exhibition will be closed 3-6 September and open only from 13.00 on 2 September. See the website for other closure
periods].
September 26, 2001 - April 7, 2002 - Milan, Italy
The city of Milan (Musei e Mostre) will organise an exhibition entitled Sogni e segni della Terra at the Palazzo Reale, Piazza
Duomo, together with the well-known cartography and history-of-art publishing house Instituto Geografico De Agostini
(Novara-Milano), to commemorate de Agostini's 100th anniversay. The history of our earth will be illustrated by old maps, atlases,
graphic works and globes. The exhibits will be on loan from important European and American museums and research institutions, as
well as from private collectors.
February 22, 2002 - April 28, 2002 - Turnhout, Belgium
Taxandriamuseum, Begijnstraat 28 and Begijnhofmuseum, Begijnhof 56, both in B-2300 Turnhout, De 'Beschrijving van de
Nederlanden' door Lodovico Guiccardini in het kader van vijn tijd, Tue. to Sat. 14-17h, Sun. 11-17h, closed Mon. For more
information tel. ++32-(0)14- 44.33.55, fax ++32-(0)14-44.33.54. This is the exhibition previously shown in Breda, at the time of the
Map Fair last November.
January 10, 2002 - April 30, 2002 - Modena, Italy
Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Palazzo dei Musei, Largo S. Agostino 337, Alla Scoperta del Mondo - l'arte della cartografia da
Tolomeo a Mercatore [Discovering the World - The Art of Cartography from Ptolemy to Mercator]: every day except public
holidays, 9-13h. For more information tel. ++39-059-22.22.48, fax ++39-059-23.01.95.
June 14, 2001 - May 15, 2002 - Newton, Massachusetts
The Jackson Homestead: Newton's City Museum and Historical Society, 527 Washington Street (phone: 617-552-7238, fax:
617-552-7228) announces the opening of its newest exhibit Rivers, Roads & Rails: Mapping Newton. The exhibit highlights early
maps of Newton drawn from the extensive collection of The Jackson Homestead and the City of Newton Archives. Featuring several
rare and never before seen maps, the exhibit chronicles how Newton developed in the context of the development of Massachusetts
and explores the reasons behind the creation of these maps. The exhibit's earliest map of Newton was created to determine the
placement of the center of town so that a new meetinghouse could be built. The map, lost for 100 years, was rediscovered in the mid
1800s and "thought to be of little value." Today it has been conserved and restored and is on display as part of the exhibit. Another
fascinating map, created by Caroline Jackson in 1832 when she was 13 years old, shows the roads and buildings of the "North
District." A series of town maps (1831, 1848, and 1855) were ordered by the general court of Massachusetts to aid in the
construction of a state map. These maps show the new railroads and the City's development from an agricultural community to what
would become a suburban city. An interactive computer station will allow visitors to access modern maps of Newton to gain a better
understanding of how the city has changed and what it looks like today.
This exhibit is made possible through the collaborative efforts of The Jackson Homestead, Newton Free Library, Newton City Archives, City of Newton Engineering Department, City of Newton Information Technology Department, and the Newton Historical Society. The Jackson Homestead is a nationally accredited museum and serves as center for Newton History. The Homestead's schedule of exhibitions, publications and programs highlight the city's rich and diverse past. The museum's collections, which pertain to Newton's cultural, economic and physical development, include paintings, decorative arts, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and building histories.
Until May 11, 2002 - Tampa, Florida
When Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492, he found the gold ornaments and heard tales of great quantities of gold to the
south. Dreams of wealth and opportunity would fuel exploration and immigration for the next five hundred years. Myths and
Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Legacies of Florida and the Caribbean illustrates Florida's history of contact and change through
artifacts, maps, and documents. Among the cartographic highlights of the traveling exhibition is Arnoldus Montanus' 1671 book on
geography, "Die Nieuwe en Onbenkended Weerld of Beschryving van America en't Zuid-Land." Also featured is Sebastian Munster's
woodcut of the New World from the "Novae Insulae, XVII Nova Tabula" of 1540 and M. Bellin's 1754 map of Haiti as it appeared
in 1492. Myths and Dreams will he on display at the Tampa Bay History Center.
May 1, 2002 - June 30, 2002 - Ottawa
The Belgian Connection: Original Maps, Atlases and Engravings featured in National Library of Canada exhibit. A 1635 map of the
North Pole and one of the first published atlases are among the many rare documents featured. The Belgian Connection, sponsored
by the Embassy of Belgium and the National Library of Canada, in cooperation with the National Archives of Canada, centres
around maps, atlases and travel accounts of explorers of the New World and early missionaries of the 16th and 17th century.
Featured in the exhibit are the works of Belgian cartographers and chroniclers such as Abraham Ortelius, Gerard Mercator,
Théodore de Bry and Cornelius de Jode. These works are among the oldest original documents in the collections of both the
National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada. The National Library's Rare Book Collection also includes works
of Jesuit and Récollet missionaries who came to New France at the end of the 17th century, Louis Hennepin being the most famous.
These maps, atlases and travel journals provided seafarers and adventurers with valuable information on the New World. The exhibit
will run in Exhibition Room D of the National Library of Canada, 395 Wellington Street in Ottawa. Admission is free of charge
April 17, 2002 - July 21, 2002 - New York Borders and Boundaries: Maps of the Holy Land, 15th - 19th Centuries, an exhibition at the Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York, One East 65th Street. A catalogue accompanies this exhibit of 35 maps and views of the Holy Land. Included are maps by Schedel, Waldseemüller, Münster, Gastaldi, Hogenberg, Plancius, Zaltieri, Ortelius, Montanus, Hondius, Visscher, and Stoopendaal. Museum hours are Sunday - Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Friday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., and Saturday 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. For further information please call 212-744-1400.
June 5, 2002 - August 3, 2002 - Stuttgart, Germany
250 years ago the famous German astronomer and cartographer Tobias Mayer published a strip map Nuernberg - Goettingen at
Homann-Erben. Therefore the Tobias-Mayer-Museum (Marbach/Neckar) prepared a map exhibition at the Württembergische
Landesbibliothek showing only this special type of strip maps. From the stocks of WLB Stuttgart and the private collections of W.
Lierz, E. Rieber and others, over 130 objects are being shown, e.g. river panoramas, railway maps, cycling and motoring maps -
everything in the form of strip maps. The time range is from the Roman Peutinger Map up until today, with the main impact on the
19th and 20th century. The exhibit moves to Göttingen, Nieders. Staats- und Univ.-Bibl. in September.
April 17, 2002 - August 16, 2002 - New York
The exhibition Scandia: Important Early Maps of the Northern Regions and Maps and Charts of Norway from the Collection of
William B. and Inger G. Ginsberg opens at Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Streets). This exhibition of
76 early maps and sea charts presents some of the most significant maps in the history of printed cartography of Scandinavia and
Norway. The exhibition also includes half a dozen historically important world maps that illustrate the context in which the mapping
of Scandinavia took place.
From antiquity to the present day, cartography has both enhanced and reflected our understanding of the world. Ancient maps depict gods and monsters, celestial bodies, and earthly terrain, demonstrating not only man's knowledge of natural boundaries, but his view of his place in the world. This exhibition celebrates the earliest maps of Scandinavia, from the first map of the area in 1482, to the sumptuous maps of the major cartographers of the 17th century, to the detailed maps made by 19th century Scandinavians. The diversity of source, purpose, and function of these maps, together with their elements of science and fantasy, decoration and utility, and history and propaganda, make them fascinating objects for study, appreciation, and enjoyment. While the maps in the exhibition contain elaborate decorative elements, they have been selected primarily for their importance in the history of cartography. They include maps printed from wood blocks and from copper plates, maps contained in books of maps (though not necessarily atlases in the modern sense of the word), maps published separately, and maps included as illustrations in books.
The first part of the exhibition, "Important Early Maps of the Northern Regions," covers the earliest period of printed maps of Scandinavia, specifically 1482 to 1601. The 43 maps comprising this section include the first printed map of Scandinavia (published in Ulm in 1482), maps of Scandinavia and Denmark from the first modern atlas (published by Abraham Ortelius in 1570), and rare world maps by Gastaldi (1546) and Rosaccio (a wall map first published in 1597). The second part is devoted to "Maps of Norway, 1602-1795" and "Sea Charts of Norway, 1585-1798." Among the 33 maps in this section are the first map showing Norway alone, the first map of Norway drawn and issued by a Norwegian cartographer, and a sea chart from the first official coastal survey of Norway.
Gallery talks will be held at 12:30 p.m. on four Tuesdays: April 30, May 7 and 21, and June 4. Scandinavia House is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
May 21, 2002 - August 16, 2002 - Toronto
Expectations and Experience: the World of the Medieval and Renaissance Traveller is an exhibit at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book
Library, University of Toronto. This exhibit will feature a variety of early maps, manuscripts, and early printed books drawn from the
rich resources of the University of Toronto libraries and associated institutions: the Fisher Rare Book Library, the Robarts Map
Library, and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Library. The exhibited images will provide a powerful visible
reminder of how eagerly medieval and early modem westerners sought to learn more about the regions farther east and farther west,
impelled both by the practical desire to extend trade routes and conquer new territories, and by the idealistic desire to explore new
worlds.
October 31, 2001 - August 31, 2002 - Brussels Bruxelles à ciel ouvert - Brussel tussen hemel en aarde - Open Spaces in Brussels in the Brussels Town Museum.
June 4, 2002 - September 14, 2002 - Chambéry, France
The year 2002 has been named "International Year of the Mountains" by the United Nations. The Media library Jean-Jacques
Rousseau will have an exhibition, The Mountain Discovered, of books, charts, atlases, prints, models, and posters demonstrating the
relationship between man and the mountain.
August 8, 2002 - September 22, 2002 - Emden, Germany
The exhibition Columbus, Cook & Co, Nautical instruments, charts and travels from five centuries will be in the Johannes a Lasco
Library, Kirchstr. 22, 26721 Emden, Tel. 0049 (0)4921/9150-0, Fax 0049 (0)4921/9150-50.
May 2002 - October 14, 2002 - Montreal
The achievements of the French king's colonial engineers are chronicled in an exhibition at the Stewart Museum titled: France in the
Americas: Cities of the King's Engineers in the New World in the 17th and 18th Centuries. More than 200 maps, plans and
archaeological artefacts are displayed. The exhibition was originally put together by La Corderie Royale, Rochefort, France. Its five
components show structures at many sites including Louisbourg, Quebec, Montreal, Detroit, Louisiana, Martinique and Cayenne
before the arrival of the king's engineers, then the training of the engineers, followed by street maps of the cities as planned by the
engineers and designs of public buildings. The last section shows how these early plans still shape the way many of these cities look
today. The exhibition will tour in 2003 to some U. S. cities, including Detroit (Dec. 2002-May, 2003), as well as some Canadian
cities (2003-2004). Additional information from Eileen Meillon, Stewart Museum, Montreal, Tel. 514-861-6701, Fax.
514-284-0123.
August 6, 2001 - October 2002 - Scotland
"Mapping the Realm": Timothy Pont's portrait of Renaissance Scotland, is a small traveling exhibition prepared by the National
Library of Scotland, which will be touring throughout Scotland, over the next few months. Mounted on ten panels the exhibition
explores Pont's life, the background to his manuscript maps (the first detailed maps of Scotland prepared in the 1580s and 1590s)
and his contribution to the first atlas of Scotland - volume 5 of Blaeu's Atlas Novus (1654). Some venues will also offer access to the
Pont maps website. For information contact Project Pont, Map Library, National Library of Scotland, 33 Salisbury Place, Edinburgh
EH9 1SL, Scotland, UK; Tel 0131-226 4531 ext 3411/3418, Fax 0131-668 3472.
Venues arranged are:
2001
Aug. 6- Sept.: 21 National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
Sept. 24-29: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 24 George St. Edinburgh
Oct.: Dundee Central Library
Nov.: Glasgow: Kelvingrove Art Gallery
Dec.: Elgin Library
2002
Jan.: Carnoustie Library
Feb.: Glenrothes: Lomond Centre
Mar.: South Ayrshire Libraries
Apr.: Dumfries & Galloway Libraries
May: Perth & Kinross Libraries
June-Aug.: Hawick Museum
Sept.: Glasgow: Mitchell Library
Oct.: North Lanarkshire Council
May 27, 2002 - October 27, 2002 - São Paulo, Brazil
O Tesouro dos Mapas - A cartografia na formação do Brasil [The Treasure of maps - The cartography in the formation of Brazil]
at Instituto Cultural Banco Santos, Rua Hungria, 1100 - Jardim Paulistano.
May 2, 2002 - November 9, 2002 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The Lancaster County Historical Society is exhibiting Putting Lancaster on the Map: Historic Maps of Lancaster County. The new,
family-oriented exhibition features the gems of the historical society's map collection, a few treasures loaned by private collectors,
and a hands-on discovery center for children. Admission to the exhibition is free. Putting Lancaster on the Map explores maps as
pages of a history book, with each map revealing a piece of the past. These fascinating works provide insights into how Lancaster
grew, what people considered important, and how they traveled from place to place. Several include illustrated scenes of county
landmarks, giving viewers an even better sense of what the area was like at the time. The exhibition also introduces a few of the
people who mapped Lancaster County, both on the ground and on paper. Among the exhibition's highlights are a 1764 map used by
James Hamilton to plot out Lancaster City, 1824 maps of Lancaster County and the "Conestogo River," and four wall maps from the
1800s depicting Lancaster City. The historical society's first hands-on discovery center makes its debut in Putting Lancaster on the
Map. In the discovery center, children can go on a treasure hunt, piece together a county-shaped puzzle, and draw and display a map
of where they live. Visitors are invited to test their knowledge of county and state geography on computer games developed by the
Lancaster County Geographic Information Systems Department. The Lancaster County Historical Society is located at 230 North
President Avenue in Lancaster, at the corner of President and Marietta Avenues, next to James Buchanan's Wheatland. The
historical society is open 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and remains open until 9:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. Admission to exhibitions is free. For more information call 717-392-4633.