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Exhibition “Talking Maps”

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. […]

Exhibition “Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes”

The french Archives Nationales organize, at their headquarters in Paris, the exhibition Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes: vues et figures de possible espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance. The exhibition focuses on a collection of local and regional maps produced in France between 1300 and 1600 with a marked practical nature: defining boundaries or […]

Exhibition on medieval Barcelona and its Mediterranean expansion

Until September 29, 2019, you can visit, in the Saló del Tinell in Barcelona, the exhibition The medieval metamorphosis, XIII-XV centuries, from the project Barcelona Mediterranean Capital of the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA). Among the materials of the exhibition there are several cartographic pieces of interest: The drawing of 1389 that represents the engraved […]

Exhibition of cartography in Santander

Until June, 9th of 2019 the exhibition La mar de cartas: fondos cartográficos del MMC can be visited in the Naos room at the Museo Marítimo del Cantábrico (MMC) in Santander. It is a collection of 40 works from the reserve repository of the MMC. It contains original works of  Francisco Coello, Gerardus Mercator, Georg Braun and Tofiño, between […]

Exhibition “Mapping Contagion”

Until May 19th, 2019 the exhibition Mapping Contagion: Representing Infectious Disease in New York City can be visited at the New York Public Library.  The show embarnices more than a century of efforts for representing cartographically the distribution and development of infectious diseases in New York, starting by the maps of Valentine Seaman related to yellow fever in […]