Until November 11th it can be visited the exhibition ‘Mapping our Past’ in the Fine Arts Gallery, Casemates Square, in Gibraltar. The exhibition is organized by Gibraltar National Archives and shows a selection of ancient cartography, as physic as digital format. More details and the exhibited maps can be consulted in the web.
The municipal library network of Chambéry, capital of the French department of Savoya, is making an interesting arrange of activities that link cartography and voyages. The main idea is the exposición «Agrandir le monde. Cartes géographiques & livres de voyages (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)», that can be visited until the 14 of January. The exhibition treats, between Middle Ages and XVIII […]
The Grup d’Estudis d’Història de la Cartografia (GEHC) and the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA) will organise the cycle of conferences Models a la cartografia urbana espanyola: una anàlisi historic between 2 and 4 of February of 2017 in Barcelona. The event pretends to make a clarifying contribution, thanks of main experts in the materia about the evolution of Spanish urban cartography from identification […]
The Museo Naval will hold, between October 25 and 27 , the LIII Jornadas de Historia Marítima, dedicated to the scientist and soldier Antonio de Ulloa. During the talks it will be gone over different aspects of his life and work, among which we remark his participation,with Jorge Juan and Santacilia, in the French geodesic mission, directed by Pierre Boggier and sponsored […]
The Commission about History of Cartography of International Cartographic Association (ICA) has renovated its presence on Internet through its new web: http://history.icaci.org/ It has still parts in development, by it promises to be a valuable source of information.
The Sociedad Geográfica Española (SGE) has prepared, dduring October, a cycle of four conferences related to historical aspects of Cartography, his relationship with its exploratory activity, with the art world, its geostrategic role and the current link to new technologies: October, Thursday 6: Geoestrategia digital, mapas y naciones. ¿Son inocentes los mapas?, by Francisco Gan Pampols October, Thursday 13: PINTORES […]
From 4 of November of 2016 to 1 of March of 2017 it can be visited the exhibition “Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line” in the British Library. As of own deposits, the exhibition reviews the great themes and the more significant episodes of the XXth century based on the maps that explain them: […]
The Working Group of Spanish-Portuguese public libraries of maps (Ibercarto) will meet in Barcelona the next 29 and 30 of September. The theme of the meeting is the management of Map´s libraries in a interconnected world. Communications will be organised in four sessions: Innovations in Geographic Information Catalogues. Digital Content Management. Documentation standars. Exhibitions and dissemination of […]
We have come back from holidays and we need to prepare the next school year, to take the shelved projects and consider them again. A good way to do it is to take a glance at the web Map History / History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject, created and maintained by Tony Campbell. The web works […]
Until the next 2nd October it can be visited, in CaixaForum of Barcelona, the exhibition “Ming. L’imperi daurat“. It is about a showing of objects related to Ming dynasty, that governed the Chinese Empire since XIV century to XVII. The objects are from the museo de Nanquín. Between them we must highlight the 坤輿萬國全圖 (Kunyu Wanguo Quantu), the first Chinese World Map of european type. […]