Until May 6, 2021, the digital exhibition Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception, organised by the Leventhal Map & Education Center of the Boston Public Library, will be accessible. The exhibition examines the many ways in which maps and data can “bend the lines”, distort reality. It starts from the fact that […]
Until October 30, you can visit the 300 aniversario de la Real y Militar Academia de Matemáticas de Barcelona exhibition organised by the Centro de Historia y Cultura Militar Pirenaico, attached to the spanish Army. The exhibition traces the history of the Academia, founded in 1720, and contains reproductions of collections from the Archivo General Militar de Segovia […]
On September 2, a GEHC representation visited the exhibition Mapes, País, Futur by the hand of our colleague Carme Montaner, who is the organiser. We already gave news of this exhibition when it started. The centenary of the exhibition organised by the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya in 1919 is commemorated. Many of the maps are the […]
A new version of the catalog of the exhibition Mapes, país, futur: centenari de l’exposició cartogràfica catalana (1919), which is in the Museu d’Història de Catalunya, can now be downloaded from here. The exhibition has been extended until June 14 but, unfortunately, it is currently closed due to the health emergency caused by COVID-19. […]
From January 30 to April 19, 2020, the exhibition Mapes, país, futur: centenari de l’exposició cartogràfica Catalana (1919) [Maps, country, future: centenary of the Catalan cartographic exhibition (1919)] can be visited at the Museu d’Història de Catalunya. The centenary of the exhibition organized by the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya in 1919 is commemorated. Many of […]
Until February 21, the exhibition Latitude: Persuasive Cartography can be visited at the Carl A. Kroch Library at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York). It is a collection of “persuasive” maps, that is, of maps designed primarily to influence opinions and beliefs instead of communicating geographic information. They use various tools and strategies (unusual projections and […]