The municipal archive of Tiana (Barcelona) has begun the restoration of a land or cadastral map dated in 1852, in an action framed in the Restoration Program offered by the Xarxa d’Arxius Municipals of the Diputació de Barcelona. Specifically, it is the “Plano geométrico del termino jurisdiccional de Tiana con su barrio de Montgat” [Geometric […]
The video shows the restoration of a map found inside a chimney in Aberdeen, Northeastern of Scotland. The protagonist is the curator of National Library of Scotland (NLS) Claire Thomson, that cleans and rebuilds, with niceness and paciente, a world map of 2,2 x 1,6m impressed by Gerald Valck at the end of XVIIth century. About this map, there are […]
The Fundación Juan Negrín will restore of cartographic material of the person that was Defense Ministre during the years of Spanish Civil War. This material is compound by hundred of war and campain maps, mainly of the Battle of Ebro. They are maps elaborated by Sección de Operaciones del Ejército Republicano that show the distribution of troops and position of different fronts. Painted by ink, […]