Until March 8, 2020, the Talking Maps exhibition can be visited at the Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford).

From the funds of the institution, this exhibition brings together a selection of ancient, pre-modern and contemporary maps of different cultures and in different formats, as well as fascinating war maps, fictional maps and even imaginary maps.

It explores how maps are not mere transparent and objective scientific objects of communication, nor are they instruments at the service of ideological approaches, but proposals about the world that help people understand who they are describing where they are.

More information on Weston Library blog.

Every map tells a story. The exhibition shows how maps are creative objects that establish conversations between the people who made them and the individuals and communities that use them.

(Jerry Brotton, co-curator of Talking Maps)