Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle

E x h i b i t i o n s

Maps: Finding Our Place in the World

16 March 2008 - 8 June 2008

Baltimore, USA

This exhibition displays some of the rarest and most historically valuable maps from many periods, in many media, from across the globe. Included will be maps of historic importance and may include the Plan of Nippur from approximately 1500 b.c., a papyrus itinerary map from a.d.100, the Ptolemy world map in a Greek manuscript from the 13th century a.d., the 1492 Behaim globe (the oldest terrestrial globe in existence), and Mercator's original projection from 1569. Also included will be modern maps that changed the world, such as those made during Lewis and Clark's expedition and the chart used by Lindbergh on his historic transcontinental flight, as well as maps created using contemporary techniques. Also included will be maps from non-European cultures-including Native Americans and those of Africa, China, Australia, and the Marshall Islands-and recreations of maps that cannot be transported.

At Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore, USA.

URI: http://www.thewalters.org/

Mapping the Imagination

3 October 2007 - 1 June 2008

London, UK

Historic and contemporary works showing imaginative use of the codified language of maps, or exploring ideas about mapping

In the Victoria and Albert Museum, Julie and Robert Breckman Prints and Drawings Gallery, Room 90 and Paintings, Room 88a. Cromwell Road. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7942 2000

URI: http://www.vam.ac.uk/

Three generations Adan. Surveyors of West-Brabant in the 18th and 19th century.

15 December - 15 June 2008

Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal, The Netherlands

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century three following generations of the Adan geometrician family where active in the western part of the province of Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands. The cartographic production of these three generations of geometricians gives a good impression of the development of Dutch cartography in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Three genertions Adan is a double exposition of the cartographic material of the Adan family on the occasion of the publishing of a book on the subject by Martijn Storms.

At the Markiezenhof in Bergen op Zoom and Museum Tongerlohuys in Roosendaal.

URI: http://www.markiezenhof.nl/
URI: http://www.tongerlohuys.nl/

The XVII Provinces in old maps: the story of a turbulent separation.

28 June - 14 September 2008

St Niklaas, Belgium

The separation of the Northern and Southern Netherlands in the 16 and 17th century was not easy: it took many years of war against the occupying Spanish empire. The story of this Eighty Years War is illustrated in this exhibition through more than 40 unique maps of the era. With the collaboration of Lydia Cordon of Prints and Frames, BIMCC member.

At the Mercatormuseum, Zamanstraat 49, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. Telephone +32 (0)3 760 37 50

E-mail: stedelijke.musea@sint-niklaas.be

URI: http://www.sint-niklaas.be

The Atlas Maior of Blaeu

16 June - 23 November 2008

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Seven different Atlas Maior’s from the collection are on display, as well as several individual Blaeu maps. Work of other map makers of the Blaeau era such as Janssonius and Frederick de Wit is also represented. The exhibition further shows printed travel diaries to India and the journal of the unfortunate discoverer Willem Barentz.

Special collection of the University of Amsterdam, Oude Turfmarkt 129, 1023 GC Amsterdam, Tel. 020-5257300. Free entrance.

URI: http://bc.uba.uva.nl/bc_tentoonstellingen/info.cfm

'On the Map' American Maps from 1500 to 1800 from the Seymour I. Schwartz Collection

28 January 2008 - January 2009

Charlottesville, USA

The exhibition brings together a selection of rare, significant maps that chronicle the Age of Exploration, European empire-building, the French and Indian War, and the American Revolution.

At the main gallery at the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture, and the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

URI: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/harrison/

URI: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small

Hollar as a mapmaker

July 2007 - indefinite 2008

London, UK

A small display in honour of the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Czech artist and etcher Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677). Best known for his landscapes, portraits, fashion plates and depictions of antiquities, Hollar also had a lifelong love of maps and earned a living by etching them. Some of the most outstanding but little-known decorative examples of his work are featured, with an accompanying leaflet. Included are views, portraits, and his anguished cartographical portrayal of the English and Czech civil wars and what is perhaps the most minute panorama and bird's-eye view of London ever to be created.

The British Library, Map Library , 96 Euston Road, London

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7412 7702. E-mail: maps@bl.uk

URI: http://www.bl.uk/collections/map_exhibitions.html

Exploring the Early Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection

13 December 2007 - indefinite (Ongoing Exhibition)

Washington, USA

Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3 000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress.

This ongoing exhibition has three major themes: Pre-Contact America; Explorations and Encounters; and Aftermath of the Encounter. Like the Jay I. Kislak Collection itself, the exhibition provides glimpses into the complex and fascinating past of the Americas. It provides insight into indigenous cultures, the drama of the encounters between Native American and European explorers and settlers, and the pivotal changes caused by the meeting of the American and European worlds. The last theme explores the profound growth of knowledge, particularly in natural history and geography, resulting from the encounters. This section includes two extraordinary maps by Martin Waldseemüller created in 1507 and 1516, which depict a world enlarged by the presence of the Western Hemisphere.

This installation begins the public’s direct and permanent access to a remarkable private collection and the collection’s full availability for research and scholarly exploration. Throughout the exhibition, interactive presentations enable visitors to learn directly from the artifacts, books, documents, paintings, and maps.

Northwest Gallery, Second Floor, Thomas Jefferson Building.

Monday - Saturday, 10.00 h to 17.00 h.

URI: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earlyamericas/

The legacy of the Netherlands

Indefinite exhibition

The Hague, The Netherlands

A thousand years of Dutch history based on treasures from the National Library of the Netherlands and the National Archives.

At Prins Willem Alexanderhof. Open Monday till Saturday: 9.00 - 17.00, Tuesday evenings 17.00 - 20.00, Sunday: 12.00 - 17.00.

Tel. +31 070 3140911/070 3315400.

URI: http://www.deverdiepingvannederland.nl/adres.html

Mapping the Past: A Selection of Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection

No dates, but on-line display!

Savannah, USA

Highlights include 1597 maps from the earliest atlas of the Americas, 1776 military maps, and other 18th- and 19th-century maps, many of them hand colored. Cartographers include Wytfliet, Hondius, Monath, Lotter, d'Anville, Faden, Lodge, Cary, and Wyld.

lst Floor Map Galleries. Newton Center for British-American Studies, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (2 doors north of the Savannah Visitors Center). Open to the public free of charge Monday-Friday 10.00 - 17.00; Sunday 13.00 - 17.00.

For further information or to arrange group tours, Maureen Burke (e-mail: smburke@sysconn.com).

URI: http://www.scad.edu/museum/