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International news and events

Compiled by the Members of the BIMCC, Nicola Boothby, Wulf Bodenstein and Pierre Parmentier

Events

London Mapping Festival 2011 – 2012
June 2011 to December 2012
London
The London Mapping Festival 2011 – 2012, or LMF for short, is an exciting and unique initiative being launched in June 2011 and will run through to December 2012. It sets out to promote greater awareness and understanding of how maps and digital geographic data are being created and used within the Capital. Through a diverse range of activities LMF will engage with a wide audience of mapping enthusiasts whether they are professionals, enthusiasts or those who are merely interested in mapping and related disciplines including; surveying, remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems and GPS. The festival draws together a whole range of existing events that are currently run by learned societies, professional bodies and commercial companies in and around London and will carry the LMF brand for the 18-month festival duration. Examples of activities, some of which are free to attend, include; workshops for schools, outdoor events such as geocaching and picnics, public lectures, professional conferences and mass participation activities.
URI: http://www.londonmappingfestival.org/
Het lezen van oude kaarten
October 2011 – May 2012
Gent, Belgium
Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Geografie

An introductory course on the history of cartography, organised by the University of Ghent, in collaboration with the BIMCC. Eight Saturdays will be devoted to a morning lecture on an aspect of the history of cartography and an optional programme in the afternoon. Open to all (students, collectors, antiquarians, etc.) .

Language: Dutch
    Dates
  • 22 October 2011 - S1 – Cartografie en geschiedenis
  • 19 November 2011 - S2 – Cartografie en middeleeuwen
  • 17 December 2011 - S3 – Cartografie in de 17de eeuw
  • 14 January 2012 - S4 – Cartografie in de 18de eeuw
  • 11 February 2012 - S5 – Cartografie in de 19de en 20ste eeuw
  • 17 March 2012 - S6 – Kadastrale documenten
  • 21 April 2012 - S7 – Cartografie overzee
  • 12 May 2012 - S8 – Cartografie in de 16de eeuw
    Venues
  • Lectures 1 to 3, 5 and 6: building S8 in Campus Sterre, Universiteit Gent, Krijgslaan 281, 9000 Gent;
  • Lecture 4: Bibliothèque Royale / Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Brussels;
  • Lecture 7: Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerpen;
  • Lecture 8: SteM in Sint-Niklaas.
    Hours
  • The courses are held on Saturdays morning from 10.00 to 12.30. You are welcome at 9.30 for a coffee.
    Price
  • EUR 180.00 for the complete series of lectures;
  • EUR 35.00 for one lecture.
More informations in the flyer (PDF - 359 kB).

Contact: UGent – IPVW, Krijgslaan 281, S3, 9000 Gent, tel. +32 9 264 44 26, fax +32 9 264 85 90, e-mail Karen.DeCoene@UGent.be
URI: http:// www.ugent.be/we/nl/diensten/ipvw-ices/aanbod/cartografie
Maps and Society
November 2011 - May 2012
London
Maps and society - Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) - Twenty-first series: 2011–2012
  • 3 November 2011: Professor Jean Boutier (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille). Without Cassini: Colbert and his Provincial Cartographers, 1660-1683.
  • 1 December 2011 Dr Emilie d’Orgeix ((Department of History of Art, Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3 University). French Colonial Mapping in the Americas (1635–1776).
  • 26 January 2012: Nils Petter Hellström (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and School of Gender, Culture and History, Södertörn University, Sweden). White Maps of Africa: The Making of Blank Spaces, 1700–1800.
  • 18 February 2012: Francis Herbert (Former Curator of Maps, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)). Maps for The Hakluyt Society, 1847–2010: or, from Cosmas to Cook and computers.
  • 1 March 2012: Dr Hilde De Weerdt (Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford). Reasoning with Maps: Amateur Mapmakers in Imperial China (1100–1300).
  • 15 March 2012: Professor Imre Demhardt (Department of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA). Alexander von Humboldt and the Scientific Mapping of the Americas.
  • 19 April 2012: Ljiljana Ortolja-Baird (School of Advanced Study, University of London). Improved Satin Maps for Ladies' Schools: A New Revenue Stream for Eighteenth-Century Printsellers.
  • 10 May 2012: Emeritus Professor Noël Wilkins (Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland Galway). Alexander Nimmo (1783–1832) and Some of His Little-Known Irish Maps and Charts.
Organizer: The Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB
Venue: The Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB
Language: English
Contact/Enquiries: telephone +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano-Smith)
Admission is free and each meeting is followed by refreshments. All are most welcome.
URI: http://maphistory.info/warburgprog.html
Un homme : Gaston d'Orléans - Une œuvre : Vue perspective de la ville de Chambéry, encre et aquarelle, XVIIème siècle
31 January 2012
Paris
Organized by Les Conférences du Quadrilatère - Des hommes et des œuvres (Paris, January - June 2012)
By Jean-Yves Sarrazin, directeur du département des Cartes et plans, BnF and Emilie d'Orgeix, maître de conférences, université de Bordeaux 3
18.15 - 19.30
Auditorium de la Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris
URI: http://arthist.net/archive/2588
Nineteenth Annual Miami International Map Fair
4 - 5 February 2012
Miami, Florida, USA
HistoryMiami
This annual event showcases antique maps, rare books, panoramas and atlases from around the world. It’s also an opportunity to learn about maps through a series of lectures by experts in the field and to enjoy special events held throughout the weekend. Proceeds from the Map Fair go towards maintaining and improving HistoryMiami exhibitions, educational programming and community outreach programmes with HistoryMiami.
Contact: Amanda Israel, tel. +1 305 375 1614, e-mail mapfair@historym ami.org
Venue: 101 West Flagler Street Miami, FL 33130
Hours 10.00 – 17.00
Entry: 15.00 USD
URI: http://www historymiami.org/visit/miami-international-map-fair/
Histoire des méridiennes
16 February 2012
Brussels, Belgium
Conference by par Jan de Graeve, géomètre-expert
Organizer: Cette conférence est organisé conjointement par le Centre National d’Histoire des Sciences (CNHS) et la bibliothèque des Riches Claires. Tous les conférenciers sont membres du CNHS.
Depuis l’Antiquité, la mesure de la longueur du méridien préoccupa de nombreux savants. Les premières mesures réalisées par Eratosthène au IIIe siècle avant J.C. sont relativement précises pour l’époque, mais ne seront pas revues avant le renouveau de la géodésie au XVIe siècle. A cette époque où les courants de pensées sont profondément bouleversés, apparaissent de nouvelles approches et de nouvelles techniques. On envisage alors les mesures à grande échelle, et on arpente la terre entière. Les mathématiciens et géomètres se lanceront dans l’aventure un siècle plus tard. En partant de Gemma Frisius, qui établit un traité en 1533 à Louvain fondant les bases de la géodésie moderne, nous irons sur les pas des grands géomètres et cartographes des Temps Modernes tels que Mercator et Picard jusqu’aux expéditions chargées de la mesure d’un arc de méridien au Pérou et en Laponie au XVIIIe siècle et la méridienne de Struve au XIXe siècle.
Venue: Rue des Riches Claires 24, 1000 Bruxelles
Language: French
Contact:
Telephone +32 2 548 26 10
E-mail bp1@brunette.brucity.be
Free access.
URI: http://www.brunette.brucity.be/bib/bibp1/index.htm
URI: http://www.astrolabium.be/spip.php?breve4
Mercator's birthday celebration
5 March 2012
Brussels
The BIMCC invites all map enthusiasts to participate in a small ceremony in honour of Gerardus Mercator's 500th birthday.
Meet at 11.00 in front of Mercator's statue in the Place du Petit Sablon / Kleine Zavel.
Medieval Maps and Diagrams
9 March 2012
London
Organizer: The Warburg Institute
In the past, maps were defined as representations of the surface of the earth or a part of it, but modern cartographical theorists and map historians define maps more widely as forms of graphic representations facilitating ‘a spatial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes, or events’ (J. B. Harley and D. Woodward). This interdisciplinary workshop will explore the relationship between medieval maps and diagrams. Brief presentations (15 minutes each) will concentrate on specific examples, which will be discussed in view of wider topics such as the art of memory, divination, typology, and page layout. The concluding panel will be concerned with the underlying question of the relationship and distinctions between medieval diagrams and maps, with the ways in which they have been examined by scholars in the past, and with how they might be investigated in the future.
Address/Venue: The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study; Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
Language: English
URI: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2011-12/medieval-maps-and-diagrams/
Maastricht Antiquarian Book & Print Fair 2012
16 and 17 March 2012
Maastricht
Venue: St Jan Church, Vrijthof, Maastricht
Hours: Friday 13.00 - 20.00, Saturday 10.00 - 18.00
Contact: info@mabp.eu
URI: http://www.mabp.eu
Cartographie de l'océan Indien au XVIe-XVIIe siècle [Cartography of the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries]
23 March 2012
Paris
In the framework of the colloquium Parcourir le monde : les voyages d'Orient [Wandering through the world: Orient travels] at École nationale des Chartes, presentation of the MeDIan project par Emmanuelle Vagnon and Jean-Yves Sarazin.
Contact/information: cartes.plans@bnf.fr
Open doors at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
23 March 2012
Paris
Presentation of the premises rue de Richelieu, of the collections and some treasures of the map department.
Registration on the spot for guided visits (in French) either at 11.00 or at 15.00.
Information: cartes.plans@bnf.fr
18th Conference of the LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires | Maps Expert Group
17 - 18 April 2012
Barcelona, Spain
The LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires and the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya ICC are delighted to invite you to the 18th Conference of the LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires which will be held on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 April 2012 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche - Association of European Research Libraries)
Language: The conference language will be English, and no translation services are provided.
Venue: Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (ICC), Montjuïc, Barcelona.
Entrance fee: The registration fee for the conference is EUR 60.00.
Contact: cartoteca@icc.cat.
URI: http://www.libereurope.eu/event/18th-conferenceliber-groupe-des-cartoth%C3%A9caires-maps-expert-group
Cartografie van de Jezuïten in het China van de 17de eeuw – Bekende en minder bekende cartografische en documentaire bronnen
18 April 2012
Brugge, Belgium
The Cultuurbibliotheek van Brugge is organizing a conference on cartography. Dr. Noël Golvers is going to speak about the Jesuit cartography in seventeenth century China.
Language : Dutch.
Contact: Walter de Smaele, e-mail: bib@cultuurbibliotheek.be
Venue : Sint-Lodewijkscollege, Magdalenastraat 30, 8200 Brugge.
At 20.00 h.
Admission : EUR 5.00 at entrance.
See poster of the event.
URI: http://www.cultuurbibliotheek.be/
The 7th International Atlas Days
18 - 22 April 2012
Weimar, Germany
18-20 April 2012: Cartographic Workshop
21-22 April 2012: Atlas weekend

As on previous occasions (Gotha 2008 and Berlin 2010), the Atlas-Tage will be preceded by a cartographic workshop. This year, the venue in Weimar permits the study of the rise and fall of the Landes-Industrie-Comptoir and the Weimar Geographical Institute which Friedrich Justin Bertuch had created there. A visit of the famous Herzogin Anna Amalia Library is part of the programme. The following Atlas Days meeting will again offer collectors and all those interrested in atlases published in German-speaking countries (essentially from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), to exchange pieces from their collection, to share results of latest research and to continue to build up the atlas databank which already contains over one thousand entries. Although held in German, the event regularly attracts participants from the Netherlands and France.
Organized by Jürgen Espenhorst and Andreas Christoph.
Language: German.
Address/Venue: (no details)
Contact: Jürgen Espenhorst
Telephone: +49-2304-72284, e-mail panverlag@t-online.de
URI: http://www pangaea-verlag.de/Veranstaltungen.html
Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage
19 - 20 April 2012
Barcelona, Spain
The ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage and the Institut Cartografic de Catalunya (ICC) organize the 7th International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage
This Workshop is addressed to cartography scholars and researchers, map-librarians, map-curators, map-collectors, administrators, digital industry / market operators and students coming from different cultural and educational backgrounds (humanistic, scientific and engineering) whose work is either focused on or affined to cartographic heritage. The Workshop will offer a common ground to colleagues from various disciplines and practice where they can meet, interact and exchange knowledge, experience, plans and ideas on how the digital revolution and modern ICTs can or could be used and contribute to cartographic heritage in terms of acquisition, processing visualization and communication of relevant digital data.
Language: English.
Venue: Conference Hall of the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Parc Montjuïc, Barcelona.
Entrance fee: free.
E-mail: pazarli@auth.gr
URI: ttp://xeee.web.auth.gr/ICA-Heritage/2011_2015/BARCELONA_2012
Mercator Revisited – Cartography in the Age of Discovery
25 to 28 April 2012
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Organization: Ghent University and the Cultural Heritage Cell Waasland. The event is supported by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the Flemish Government.
The conference will take place from 25 April till 28 April 2012 in the city of Sint-Niklaas (Belgium). It focuses on the place of cartography in general and of Mercator in specific in the sixteenth century, and on different approaches to historical cartography of the Early Modern Period. Key-notes will be given by Prof. Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary, University of London), Prof. Mark Monmonier (Syracuse University), Prof. Georg Gartner (Vienna University of Technology) and Dr. Thomas Horst (Universität der Bundeswehr München).
Registration for the conference is possible through the website: www.mercatorconference2012.be/r gistration. Reduced price for students and retirees.
Contact: Bart Ooghe, Heritage Cell Waasland, Lamstraat 113, 9100 Sint-Niklaas
E-mail: contact@mercatorconference2012.be
Visitors can register on a daily basis, and there is a reduced price for seniors.
Venue: City Museum (SteM), 14 Zwijgershoek. Sint-Niklaas
URI: http://www.mercatorconf rence2012.be/
Open Kaart: cartografie van Liber Floridus tot GIS
28 April 2012
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
In  parallel wih the conference, on 28 April 2012 there will be a study day (in Dutch), entitled  'Open Kaart: cartografie van Liber Floridus tot GIS'. The speakers will be Karen de Coene (UGent), Adriaan De Kraker (VU Amsterdam), Dirk Imhof (Museum Plantin-Moretus), Iason Jongeper (UA), Eric Leenders (BIMCC), Ilse van den Bogaert (independent restorer), Frederik Waûters (ESRI) en Bram Van Nieuwenhuyze (KUL).
Organization: Erfgoedcel Waasland
Programme:
  • 9.30: Onthaal met koffie/thee
  • 10.00: Inleiding
  • 10.15: Karen De Coene - Cartografie en het Liber Floridus
  • 10.45: Bram Vannieuwenhuyze - Stadscartografie tijdens de Middeleeuwen en de Vroegmoderne Tijd.
  • 11.15: Dirk Imhof - Gedrukte kaarten en hun verspreiding in de 16de eeuw
  • 11.45: Middagpauze met broodjeslunch
  • 13.00: Iason Jongepier - Cartografie van het Waasland: een overzicht
  • 13.30: Eric Leenders - Mercators kaart van Vlaanderen
  • 14.00: Adriaan de Kraker - Het geslacht Horenbault
  • 14.30: Pauze
  • 14.45: Ilse van den Bogaert - Behoud en restauratie van kaarten
  • 15.15: Frederik Waûters - Geografische Informatiesystemen en cartografie
  • 15.45: Afronding en geleid bezoek aan tentoonstelling Mercator Digitaal (ca. 1.30 h)
Language: Dutch
Venue: SteM, Sint-Niklaas
Hours: (no information available)
Entrance fee: EUR 15.00.
URI: http://www.erfgoedcelwaasland.be/
Budapest Symposium 2012 - 4th International Symposium on the History of Cartography
28 - 29 June 2012
Budapest, Hungary
Organizer: ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in collaboration with Dr Zsolt Török of the Department of Geography and Geoinformatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
The Symposium theme is 'Exploration - Discovery - Cartography'. The Symposium will be open to all cartographers, geographers, historians, map collectors, academics and lay persons interested in the history of cartography.
Venue: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Language: English
Contact: Dr Zsolt Török (Commission member and Symposium organiser), e-mail: zoltorok@ludens.elte.hu
URI: http://www.icahistcarto.org/index.php?option=com_content& view=article&id=38&Itemid=45
URI: http://lazarus.elte.hu/~zoltorok/2012_Budapest/
International Map Fair
24 - 26 August 2012
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Organizer: SteM (Stedelijk musea van Sint-Niklaas)
Een cartografische beurs voor liefhebbers van oude kaarten.
Venue: In de Piet Elshoutzaal, SteM, Zwijgershoek 14, 9100 Sint-Niklaas.
Language: Dutch
Contact:
Telephone: +32 3 760 37 50
E-mail Stedelijke.musea@sint-niklaas.be
URI: http://musea.sint-niklaas.be/musea
30th IMCoS Symposium: 500 Years Mercator
9 - 12 September 2012
Vienna
Early Cartography in the Habsburg Empire, and Commemoration of Mercator's 500th Birthday
Venue: Austrian Academy of Sciences
URI: http://mercator-500.at/
IV Simpósio Ibero-Americano de História da Cartografia
11 - 14 September 2012
Lisbon
Organisers: the Fourth Ibero-American Conference on the History of Cartography is organised by the Centre for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon (Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa, CEG/UL) in collaboration with the Centre for Overseas History of the New University of Lisbon (Centro de História de Além-Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, CHAM/UNL) and the National Library of Portugal (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, BNP).
The Fourth Ibero-American Conference on the History of Cartography will be held at the National Library of Portugal in Lisbon from 11 to 14 September 2012. This event follows editions in 2006 (Buenos Aires), 2008 (México City) and 2010 (São Paulo) and is organized by the Centre for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon (CEG/UL) in collaboration with the Centre for Overseas History of the New University of Lisbon (CHAM/UNL) and the National Library of Portugal (BNP). Over the past years, the Ibero-American Conference on the History of Cartography has established itself as one of the most important forums for the discussion of the roles played by cartographical images in the making of geographical knowledge. The Lisbon conference has as its overarching theme 'Cartographers for all the World – Production and circulation of Ibero-American cartographical knowledge: agents and contexts'. It pursues three main objectives. Firstly, to build on the fact that we as a community work on a cartographical tradition that pioneered new ways of representing space on a global scale and shaped the great categories we still use today to organize our geographical knowledge of the world. Secondly, we wish to stimulate inquiries into the production, circulation and usage of cartographical artefacts in connection with the cultural and social contexts in which they have operated. Finally, we introduce a focus on cartographers to encourage biographical studies as a crucial element in the exploration of authorship in mapmaking. The Fourth Ibero-American Conference on the History of Cartography is organized in sessions revolving around 11 themes, avoiding a scheme along purely geographical and chronological criteria. A majority of themes is related to issues of map production and circulation. There will be additional space for reflection on the teaching of cartographical history in different national and cultural contexts, as well as on map librarianship. Furthermore, we are holding two special sessions in honour of two outstanding personalities from the world of Ibero-American cartographical history who both deceased in 2011 but will remain a source of inspiration to future generations of scholars. One session on the cartography of urban spaces in the New World is dedicated to the memory of Professor Mauricio de Almeida Abreu. Another session focusing on nautical cartography is dedicated to the memory of Admiral Max Justo Guedes.
Venue: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Campo Grande, 83, 1749-081 Lisboa (Portugal)
Working languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English (no simultaneous translation).
Contact: E-mail 4siahc@gmail.com
URI: http://4siahcen.wordpress.com/
Mercator - Hondius - BIMCC International Conference
8 December 2012
Brussels
URI: http://www.bimcc.org
25th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC)
30 June - 5 July 2013
Helsinki, Finland
The Board of Directors of Imago Mundi Ltd is delighted to announce that Helsinki has been chosen as the venue for the 25th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC). This will take place in July 2013.
URI: http://ichc2013.fi/
26th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC)
July 2015
Antwerp, Belgium

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De Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België koopt de oudste gedrukte topografische kaart van onze gebieden!
De Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België is alweer een pareltje rijker! Ze kocht recentelijk de ‘Corte Cronikel’ van Cornelis van Hoorn, een wereldkroniek in rolvorm, met daarin een kaartfragment dat de oudste gedrukte topografische kaart van onze gebieden blijkt te zijn!
De wereldkroniek bestaat uit 18 gedrukte bladen, met de hand ingekleurd, en maakte voordien deel uit van een Blaeu atlas. Het aangekochte exemplaar draagt de datum 1586 en is een latere uitgave in het Nederlands van de kroniek van Cornelis van Hoorn uit 1537 waaraan op het laatste blad een vervolg van de kroniek tot 1557 is toegevoegd. Dit laatste blad is gedrukt op een kaartfragment dat de Zuidelijke Nederlanden afbeeldt in zwart-wit.
De wereldkroniek is in verscheidene opzichten uniek. Vooreerst is de volledig Nederlandse uitgave uit 1586 met het toegevoegde blad nergens anders teruggevonden. Daarnaast is het kaartfragment een unieke vondst, en laat het toe om de incompleet bewaarde kaart van de Antwerpse uitgever Jan Van Hoirne uit 1526 aan te vullen. Van het bewaarde exemplaar van deze laatste kaart ontbreekt het blad waarop de Zuidelijke Nederlanden zijn afgebeeld. Daardoor is het bewaarde blad dat de verso uitmaakt van het laatste blad van de wereldkroniek van Van Hoorne de oudste gedrukte topografische kaart van onze gebieden, of anders gezegd, van het huidige België.
De identificatie van de kaart is gebaseerd op de studie van de heer Marco van Egmond, conservator kaarten en atlassen van de Universiteitsbibliotheek van Utrecht en de aankoop kwam er op advies van de heer Wouter Bracke, Afdelingshoofd Kaarten en Plannen van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België.
De Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België kon, met de tussenkomst van een mecenas, de kaart aank
URI: http://www.kbr.be/collections/cart_plan/actualite/acquisition/carte_nl.html
Posted on 28 January 2012
La Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (KBR) achète la plus ancienne carte topographique imprimée de nos régions !
La Bibliothèque royale de Belgique ajoute une nouvelle perle à ses collections. En effet, elle vient d’acquérir la « Corte Cronikel » (Brève chronique) de Cornelis van Hoorn, une chronique du monde en néerlandais contenant un fragment de carte qui se révèle être la plus ancienne carte topographique imprimée de nos régions !
Cette chronique du monde se compose de 18 feuilles imprimées, coloriées à la main, assemblées ici en rouleau, et faisait autrefois partie d’un atlas « Blaeu ». L’exemplaire acquis par la Bibliothèque royale porte la date de 1586. Il constitue une réédition de la chronique de Cornelis van Hoorn de 1537 à laquelle a été ajoutée une feuille complémentaire contenant la suite de la chronique jusqu’en 1557. Cette dernière feuille est imprimée sur un fragment de carte gravée représentant les Pays-Bas méridionaux.
La chronique du monde est unique à plus d’un titre. Premièrement, cette édition complète de 1586 n’a été retrouvée nulle part ailleurs, avec ou sans la feuille ajoutée. De plus, ce fragment de carte constitue une découverte en soi car il permet de compléter la carte de 1526 de l’éditeur anversois Jan Van Hoirne, conservée de manière incomplète. En effet, la feuille représentant les Pays-Bas méridionaux ne figure pas dans l’exemplaire conservé de cette carte de Van Hoirne. Dès lors, la carte gravée au verso de la dernière feuille de la chronique du monde de Van Hoorne est la plus ancienne carte topographique imprimée de nos régions, autrement dit de la Belgique telle que nous la connaissons aujourd’hui.
L’identification de la carte est basée sur l’étude de M. Marco van Egmond, conservateur des cartes et atlas de la Bibliothèque de l’Université d’Utrecht. L’acquisition a été recommandée par M. Wouter Bracke, Chef de la section des Cartes et Plans de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique.
Grâce à l’intervention d’un mécène, la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique a pu acquérir cette carte pour la somme de 30.000 euros.
URI: http://www.kbr.be/collections/cart_plan/actualite/acquisition/carte_fr.html
Posted on 28 January 2012
Oudste kaart van Nederlanden ontdekt
In Breda is het oudste kaartfragment van de Nederlanden ontdekt. Het gaat om een landkaart uit 1557, met daarop vermelding van verschillende Vlaamse steden. De Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België heeft de kaart aangekocht.
Volgens deskundigen van de Universiteit Utrecht gaat het om de oudst bekende kaart van de Nederlanden, zo meldt Omroep Brabant woensdag in Nederland.
De kaart komt in het bezit van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, die hem begin januari kon aankopen voor 30.000 euro, dankzij de tussenkomst van een mecenas. De eigenaar, een boekhandelaar, vroeg aanvankelijk 50.000 euro, zegt Wouter Bracke, afdelingshoofd Kaarten en Plannen bij de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België.
Het kaartfragment maakt deel uit van de 'Corte Cronikel' van Cornelis van Hoorn, een wereldkroniek in rolvorm uit 1586. 'Het gaat om de tweede editie van de kroniek, die een extra blad heeft in tegenstelling tot de eerste editie. Op de achterkant van dat blad staat het kaartfragment afgedrukt', aldus Bracke.
Hij legt uit dat papier destijds duur was, waardoor drukkers bedrukte bladen hergebruikten. De kaart bevindt zich evenwel 'in heel goede staat'.
De volledige Nederlandse uitgave van de kroniek uit 1586 is nog nergens anders teruggevonden. Het kaartfragment is ook een unieke vondst, want vult een incompleet bewaarde kaart uit 1526 aan.
Het kaartfragment beeldt de Zuidelijke Nederlanden af en is zo dus de oudste gedrukte topografische kaart van onze gebieden. Het gaat om het gebied van Trier in Duitsland tot Calais in Frankrijk. Op de kaart staan plaatsen als Brugghe, Bruessel, Ghent, Nieupoort, Ostende en Oudenaerde aangegeven. Ook Dinant, Namen en Hoeye staan op de kaart.
Opvallend is de aanwezigheid van de haringvloot en de 'Spaensche Vlote' op de Noordzee. Voorts staan er aanduidingen op als 'tbosch van ardenne' en 'Schaldes' (Schelde).
De Koninklijke Bibliotheek wenst de nieuwe aanwinst in de nabije toekomst tentoon te stellen, maar door de drukke planning is nog geen concrete datum bekend.
From the newspaper De Standaard Web site, donderdag 26 januari 2012, 10u00
Posted on 28 January 2012
La plus vieille carte des Pays-Bas acquise pour 30.000 euros par la Bibliothèque royale
En fait, c'est tout un ouvrage datant de 1586, que la KBR a acheté. "Il s'agit de la seconde édition d'une chronique universelle qui contenait une feuille supplémentaire par rapport à la première. Et c'est au verso de cette feuille que le fragment de carte était imprimé", a expliqué le conservateur à l'agence Belga. "Le papier coûtait cher à l'époque et il n'était pas rare que les imprimeurs réutilisent des feuilles déjà imprimées", a-t-il ajouté. Expertisée dans un premier temps par l'Université d'Utrecht, la carte constitue "l'une des plus anciennes représentations imprimées de nos régions", selon M. Bracke. On y aperçoit des localités telles que "Brugghe" (Bruges), "Bruessel" (Bruxelles), "Ghent" (Gand), "Nieupoort" (Nieuport), "Ostende" et "Oudenaerde" (Audenarde). Les villes de "Dinant", "Namen" (Namur) et "Hoeye" (Huy) y sont également indiquées. La Bibliothèque royale souhaite présenter sa nouvelle acquisition dans un avenir plus ou moins proche au grand public, soit dans le cadre de son exposition permanente 'Librarium', soit lors d'un événement propre qui lui serait spécialement consacré, peut-être l'année prochaine, a précisé le conservateur.
From the newspaper Le Soir Web site, jeudi 26 janvier 2012
Posted on 26 January 2012
Creation of the International Society for the History of the Map (ISHM)
This new society was established in London on 1 December 2011, to advance the study of the history of maps in all societies and over all periods of time, by promoting: the education of the general public; communication between members; and research, teaching and funding of the subject. It is chaired by Zsolt Gyozo Török, Associate Professor of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and Director of Imago Mundi Ltd. The ISHM will hold its first AGM on 30 June 2012 in Budapest.
You can already register online on the new website: http://ishm.elte.hu/
Posted on 21 January 2012
BIMCC members in Moscow
A number of our members participated in the 24th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC) in Moscow in July 2011.
An account of the six days Conference, by Francis Herbert, can be found in the Autumn issue of IMCoS Journal, or by Bert Johnson in the Winter issue of The Portolan.
For BIMCC members in Belgium, we ought to mention the paper 'How accurate can a legend be? The case of the Ferraris map, by Karen De Coene, Therese Ongena, and Soetkin Vervus. The study highlighted stylistic differences in the contributions by several compilers/draughtsmen to the 275 sheets of the manuscript Carte de Cabinet made for Charles de Lorraine — in spite of instructions that they were to follow a style manual …
Posted on 21 January 2011
25th Polish Conference of historians of cartography, Poznan, 15 - 17 September 2011
This conference was held under the able stewardship of Dr Beata Medynska-Gulji, Director of the Adam Mickiewicz University's Cartographical Department. Bringing together some fifty speakers from home and abroad, the conference's focus this year was the treatment of space on old maps. The speakers included well-known native scholars such as Dr L. Szaniawska (Comparative study of two portolans by Antonio Millo 1583 and Angelo Freducci 1554) and Dr Kazimierz Kozica (Two maps of Silesia, by Petrus Kaerius 1621 and Jan Janssonius 1630, from the same plate), as well as foreign guests such as Dr T. Horst from Munich (Mercator and his great atlas of 1595), Dr W. G. Koch from Dresden (J.G. Lehmann's system of hachures and some new finds) and Dr M. Spata from Koenigstein (Helwig's map of Silesia 1561 and the Haus Schlesien exhibition). Three small but select exhibitions were organised to coincide with the conference. To name but a few highlights, Poznan's venerable Raczynski Library, founded in 1829, put on display some fine sixteenth and sventeenth century atlases, such as Jan Janssonius's eleven volume Novus Atlas Absolutissimus (1647-1658) and Jan Van Keulen's Grand Nouvel Atlas de la Mer (1699), in addition to G. A. Rizzi Zannoni's Carte de Pologne 1772, the country's first modern atlas, this being the copy that once belonged to Stanislaw August Poniatowski, the last king of Poland. For its part the University Library's focus was on town plans and regional maps of Greater Poland, and on the pride of their collection, a 1632 terrestrial globe by Matthaeus Greuter. Last but by no means least, the attractions in the elegant rooms of Kornik Palace Library included the first edition of Ptolemy's Cosmographia (Ulm 1482) and a pair of early nineteenth century globes by J.G. Klinger from Nuremberg.
Posted on 21 January 2012
Transferts de savoir dans les cartographies de l’océan Indien (Orient/Occident, de l’Antiquité au XVIe siècle) [Knowledge transfer in the maps of the Indian Ocean (East / West, from antiquity to the sixteenth century)]
A Study day in the program MEDIAN (http://median.hypotheses.org) of the French Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR)) has recently been organized by the Laboratoire Islam Médiéval (UMR 8167) (http://www.islam-medieval.cnrs.fr) and the National Library of France (Department of Maps and Plans) (http://www.bnf.fr). The Web site offers abstracts of the various lectures presented on that occasion.
URI: http://median.hypotheses.org/category/colloque/transferts-de-savoir-dans-les-cartographies-de-locean-indien
Posted on 21 January 2012
Cartographier l'Afrique IXe-XIXe siècle : Construction, transmission et circulation des savoirs cartographiques sur l'Afrique [Mapping Africa's ninth-nineteenth century construction, transmission and circulation of knowledge on Africa map]
On 2 and 3 December 2010, a colloquium organized at the Auditorium de l'INHA Paris and in the Salle des Commissions BnF, site Richelieu was dedicated to the cartography of Africa. A PDF file with abstracts of the lectures is available at http://www.islam-medieval.cnrs.fr/archives_actus.php
Wulf Bodenstein, our Honorary President, from the Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, presented a lecture about La grande carte de l’Afrique en 10 feuilles from H. Habenicht, published in 1885 for the centenary of the publisher Justus Perthes in Gotha.
Posted on 21 January 2012
The Atlas of the Netherlands project
The Atlas der Neederlanden [= Atlas of the Netherlands], kept in the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam, is a 9-volume composite atlas including over 600 map sheets covering virtually the whole territory of the Dutch Republic in the eighteenth century. The collection was completed and bound together in the second decade of the nineteenth century. The many multi-sheet wall maps included were protected against all kinds of threats such as insects, light, dust, dirt etc. within the safe covers of the bindings. Many are thus in almost mint condition, bright, fresh, as if printed and hand coloured only yesterday. This huge atlas is the focus of a project including map-by-map cataloguing, restoration, digitisation, reproduction and exhibition. Map cataloguing was completed in 2008, the paper restoration in summer 2011, and digitisation is making good progress right now, and will be completed by March 2012. Preparations for a full-size facsimile edition are also well underway. In 1810, two hundred years before the start of this project, the Netherlands were annexed and became part of the French Empire. In 2013, two hundred years after the withdrawal of the French and the inauguration of sovereign prince Frederik Willem (who would become King Willem I), the project will be complete. The well-preserved atlas will then be the monumental focus of an exhibition on the Dutch landscape, both celebrating the bicentennial of the foundations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which was finally established in 1815, and the bicentennial of this Atlas der Neederlanden.
Half-way through the project, digitisation, image processing and the facsimile-edition are the focus of the project right now. The Atlas der Neederlanden website was completed December 2011. It’s a good introduction and it offers a first visual acquaintance with the atlas and some of its contents. At this moment it’s in Dutch only. It can be found at: http://cf.uba.uva.nl/atlasderneederlanden. The facsimile publication will be extremely limited. The price will be EUR 6995.00 for the set of 9 volumes + 1 volume introduction. Finalisation of the facsimile project will depend on a minimum of subscribers by April 2012. So everyone’s interest and support is highly appreciated!
For more information, go to: http://www.asiamaior.nl , or contact Jan Werner on j.w.h.werner@uva.nl.
Some interesting additional external information on the Atlas der Neederlanden can be found on:
Posted on 13 January 2012
News from the Washington Map Society – 2011 Ristow Prize
The Washington Map Society is pleased to announce that Kevin E. Sheehan is the winner of the 2011 Ristow Prize for the best paper submitted in the history of cartography. His paper, entitled 'Utility and Aesthetic: The Function and Subjectivity of Two Fifteenth-Century Portolan Charts,' will appear in a forthcoming issue of The Portolan. Mr. Sheehan is in his final year as a doctoral student at Durham University in England.
Julie McDougall of the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) received Honorable Mention for her work, 'British School Atlases: Influence on Style and Map Content, c. 1870 – c. 1930.' Ms. McDougall presented a section of her work at the recent International Conference for the History of Cartography in Moscow.
The 2012 competition for the Ristow Prize is now open for applicants. Full- or part-time undergraduate, graduate, or first-year postgraduate students attending any accredited college or university worldwide are eligible to submit papers.
Visit the Washington Map Society website for details: http://home.earthlink.net/~docktor/ristow.htm.
Contact: Dr. Evelyn Edson, Ristow Prize Chair, 268 Springtree Lane, Scottsville VA 24590-9511, USA
Posted on 2 January 2012
The new issue of e-Perimetron, Vol. 6, No. 4, 219-275 is online
Contents:
  • Rusiñol M., R. Roset, J. Lladós, C. Montaner: Automatic index generation of digitized map series by coordinate extraction and interpretation, 219-229.
  • Fleet C.: Historical maps in ScotlandsPlaces: new collaborative geographic retrieval and presentation options for the National Library of Scotland's maps, 230-243.
  • Grosso E.: SEREDONA: A web service platform to integrate historical vector data into current reference frame, 244-253.
  • Isaksen L.: Lines, damned lines and statistics: unearthing structure in Ptolemy’s Geographia, 254-260.
  • Crăciunescu V., S. Constantinescu, I. Ovejanu, I. Rus: Project eHarta: a collaborative initiative to digitally preserve and freely share old cartographic documents in Romania, 261-269.
  • Bitelli G., G. Gatta: Experiences on georeferencing of maps from the XIX century Gregorian Cadastre of Bologna (Italy), 270-275.
URI: http://www.e-perimetron.org/
Posted on Maphist Digest, Vol 76, Issue 19 on 20 December 2011
Le monde des cartes [The world of maps]
Le monde des cartes is the name of the new shop being opened by the Institut Géographique National (IGN) in the heart of Paris, replacing its shop in the rue de la Boétie. There you can choose the maps you need for hiking in the Alps, or take your pick from the very comprehensive range of IGN road maps, or order tailor made maps (carte à la carte) choosing your area, your scale, your format. In addition, the IGN also presents reproductions of ancient maps on good quality paper, in particular the whole series of 180 Cassini maps depicting eighteenth century French regions; on the occasion of their opening, from 19 to 24 December 2011, they offer a 10 % discount on ancient map reproductions, as well as on relief maps.
Le monde des cartes, 50 rue de la Verrerie, F-75004 Paris, Metro: Hôtel de Ville, open Monday - Saturday 11.00 – 19.00
URI: http://lois rs.ign.fr/pageActu.do?channelId=5275035&docIndex=2
Posted on 17 December 2011
Magazine du Bibliophile
The French Magazine du Bibliophile targets an audience of amateurs and collectors of rare books, manuscripts and autographs. Every month it provides them with book reviews, news on exhibitions and auctions, as well as articles on a particular theme. In October 2011, the theme was maritime cartography. And in November, to follow on that theme, the Magazine published a two-page interview of our Vice-President and Editor, Jean-Louis Renteux — under the title BIMCC: la passion des cartes anciennes — , and gave him the opportunity to present the BIMCC and its Newsletter in some detail.
Posted on 3 December 2011
The Vandermaelen inventory dedicated to L’Atlas Universel (1825-1827)
To be published in December 2011 by the Royal Library of Belgium.
In 1827 Philippe Vandermaelen completed an atlas in Brussels that combined several never before published details. It was the first universal atlas with a unique scale and projection, the first lithographed universal atlas, the first representation of the world on such a large scale (1:1 640 000), etc. It made a worldwide impact right away.
The Royal Library of Belgium keeps four copies of the Atlas, one of which was part of the original edition published from July 1825 to October 1827.
The inventory has 682 pages.
There are:
  • more than 60 pages of introduction in which the different editions and variations are reviewed,
  • 55 illustrations,
  • the description of the 400 sheets of the Atlas in all its states with the precise content for each sheet,
  • 280 pages of complete transcript of the never before published lithographed leaflets on the maps before and after self-censorship,
  • 70 pages of charts and tables,
  • more than 80 pages of index that help identify the travellers, explorers, authors, historians, geographers, historical figures, ships, etc., stated in the maps and leaflets.
The inventory is available for EUR 49.00 (excluding shipping costs) or EUR 40.00 if ordered before 31 December 2011.
Inventaire raisonné des collections cartographiques Vandermaelen conservées à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. V : L’Atlas universel (1825-1827) / Marguerite Silvestre. Bruxelles : Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 2011. – 30 cm. – (Monographies de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique = Monografien van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België ; B140). ISBN 978-2-87093-168-4
For orders please contact: marguerite.silvestre@kbr.be
Posted on 9 November 2011
History of Cartography volumes 1 and 2 now available online
Readers of the 'History of Cartography' newsletter may already know this but the HofC Project has now made volumes 1 and 2 (books 1-3) freely accessible as .pdf online.
  • Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
  • Volume 2:
    • Book 1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies
    • Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies
    • Book 3: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies
URI: http://www press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html
Posted on 8 November 2011
Princeton's digitization of Vandermaelen's 1827 atlas and video of its 3D virtual globe
In 2009, Princeton University Library’s Historic Maps Collection acquired a copy of Belgian cartographer Philippe Vandermaelen’s landmark Atlas universel (1827), a folio-size atlas of six volumes that contains about 380 conically-projected maps. In digitizing all of the maps and textual sheets, we decided to try and construct a virtual globe from its continental maps. The results of all of this work—high resolution images of the maps and a short video of the revolving globe--are now available from this website:
Many of you are probably familiar with these beautiful maps and unique atlas. The virtual globe is something new for us and, though fairly rudimentary for the Google Earth generation, has some of its 1827 charm, I think. The file takes a moment to load. Please share with anyone you think might be interested.
John Delaney, Curator, Historic Maps Collection, Princeton University Library
Posted on MapHist Digest, Vol 72, Issue 6 on 5 August 2011
ISHM 2011 Open Forum- Report
The report on the ISHM (International Society for the History of the Map) Open Forum, held at the Moscow ICHC this July 2011 http://tinyurl.com/3lvjdth
About the new International Society for the History of the Map: http://lazarus.elte.hu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ishm
The ISHM Founding Group
Posted on MapHist Digest, Vol 72, Issue 1 on 1 August 2011


E x h i b i t i o n s

Vues sur la Lorraine : Cinq siècles de cartographie en SAR/LOR/LUX
2 November 2011 – 27 December 2011 20 February 2012
Saint-Julien-lès-Metz, Moselle, France
A set of maps and plans from the Fritz Hellwig collection. Fritz Hellwig was a member of the Bundestag and a top international official. The collection covers the Lotharingian space (Lorraine, Alsace, Rhineland, Palatinate). You can see the Lorraine and the Saar, which were part of the Kingdom of France (enclave of Saarlouis, Provost Wallerfangen) and of the French Empire (departments of Moselle and Sarre), from 1513 to 1919.
The exhibition was organized by the archives of Saar in 2010 and is now transposed for the French public.
The exhibition will move later as follows:
Organization: Archives générales de la Moselle
Address: 1, allée du Château, Saint-Julien-lès-Metz, Moselle
Opening hours: 
  • Monday – Friday: 08.30-16.45
  • Saturday: 8.30-12.30
Entrance fee: (not specified)
Contact: Service départemental d'Archives de la Moselle, 1, allée du Château à Saint-Julien-lès-Metz
Postal address: B.P. 25260, 57076 Metz Cedex 3
Telephone: +33 3 87 78 05 00, fax : +33 3 87 78 05 09 E-mail: archives@cg57.fr
URI: http://www.archives57.com/frontSite?controller=ViewPage&id=archives
La France en relief, de Louis XIV à Napoléon III [France in relief, from Louis XIV to Napoleon III]
18 January – 17 February 2012
Paris
Organizer: Maison de l’histoire de France
Around a 650 m² map of France, sixteen plans-relief of fortresses and cities will be presented, for only four weeks, under the glass vault of the Grand Palais, on the Champs Elysées. A number of these vast 3D models were built between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries for strategic and military purposes. The main collections are displayed permanently in the Musée des Plans-reliefs in Paris (Hôtel des Invalides) and in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lille (see BIMCC Newsletters No 13, 19 and 20). This exhibition will be a unique opportunity to see some of the most spectacular plans reliefs usually kept in reserve, including that of the major naval base of Brest, or of alpine fortresses (e.g. Briançon) as well as of a few strongholds in the Low Countries (e.g. Bergen op Zoom or Saint-Omer).
Address/Venue: Grand Palais, nef, Entrée principale, Avenue Winston-Churchill, 75008 Paris
Language:French.
Contact: Maison de l’histoire de France, 56, rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75003 Paris
Telephone +33 1 40 27 66 83
Hours of opening: Monday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 10.00 – 20.00; Wednesday, Friday: 10.00 – 22.00.
Entrance fee: EUR 5.00
Catalogue available: (no details)
URI: http://lafranceen elief.maison-histoire.fr/
Read our exclusive report about the exhibition. (PDF, 6.9 MB)
Kartografia górnicza [Mining Cartography]
until 25 February 2012
Wieliczka, near Cracow, Poland
The Cracow Saltworks Museum Wieliczka would like to invite everybody to an exhibition entitled 'Mining Cartography'. Its aim is to emphasize the significance of land surveying for the development of mining centres in Poland.  The exhibition presents most valuable maps from the period between the seventeenth and the twentieth century from various mining centres in Poland, with special attention given to the Wieliczka and Bochnia mines. Among the exhibits, visitors can see a very precious and unique set of maps of Marcin German, presenting three levels of the mine and the city from 1638. The exhibition also presents development of measuring technology which took place at that time, as well as measuring equipment and devices used to prepare plans and maps of mine. There is also a review of most meritorious people for mining cartography.
Organization: Cracow Saltworks Museum Wieliczka
Language: Polish
Address: Cracow Saltworks Museum, 32-020 Wieliczka, St. Zamkowa 8
Opening hours: (no details)
Entrance fee: (no details)
Contact: Cracow Saltworks Museum, 32-020 Wieliczka, St. Zamkowa 8
Telephone +48 (012) 278-32-66, +48 (012) 422-19-47
E-mail podziemne@muzeum.wieliczka.pl  
URI: http //www.muzeum.wieliczka.pl/Current-Events.146+M589213781d5.0.html
Le Luxembourg dans la Grande Région
29 February - 25 April 2012
Luxembourg
Organization: Archives Nationales
Address: Archives Nationales
Language:  (no details)
Opening hours: (no details)
Entrance fee: (no details)
Contact:  (no details)
Telephone  (no details)
E-mail  (no details)  
URI: http://www.anlux.lu/multi/index.php
500 Jahre Gerhard Mercator   Vom Weltbild der Renaissance zum Kartenbild der Moderne
10 March - 10 June 2012
Dortmund, Germany
Organization: Förderkreis Vermessungstechnisches Museum e.V. im Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund
Address: Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Hansastr. 3, 44137 Dortmund
Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday: 10.00 – 17.00, Thursday: 10.00 – 20.00, Saturday 12.00 – 17.00
Entrance fee: (no information)
Contact: telephone +49 231 50 25 522, e-mail: mkk@stadtdo.de 
URI: http://www.mercator500.de index.htm URI: http://www.mkk.dortmund.de
Venice and Egypt
1 October 2011 - 22 June 2012
Venice, Italy
Organization: Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
Currently showing at the Ducal Palace in Venice, over 300 well-chosen works illustrate the high degree of cross-fertilization in history, science, trade and culture between these two major players in the Mediterranean basin over the last 2000 years. Particularly noteworthy is the small but select cartographical section. Highlights here include a lavishly ornate manuscript version of Ptolemy's Cosmographia from 1454, a manuscript atlas from 1554/6 by Battista Agnese and a nautical chart of the Mediterranean by Jaume Olives (1563). Works such as Von Breydenbach's Peregrinatio ad Terram Sanctam (1486) and views of Cairo by Zorzi (1549) and of Alexandria by Braun and Hogenberg (1597) take the visitor back in time, while a magnificent terrestrial globe by Livio and Giulio Sanudo (1574) rounds off this part of the exhibition.
Language: Italian.
Contact: Palazzo Ducale, San Marco 1, 30124 Venezia
Telephone +39 041 2715911
E-mail info@fmcvenezia.it
Address: Palazzo Ducale, San Marco 1, Venezia. Opening hours: till 31 October, 8.30 - 19.00 (biglietteria 8.30 – 18.00). From 1 November to 22 June, 8.30 - 17.30 (biglietteria 8.30 – 16.30). Closed on 25 December and 1 June.
URI: http://palazzoducale.visitmuve.it/it/ ostre/mostre-in-corso/venezia-e-legitto/2011/09/2343/il-progetto-2/
Mercator's original Atlas, and Une source royale pour Mercator [A Royal Source for Mercator]
25 April - 29 July 2012
Brussels
The Royal Library of Belgiumwill stage two initiatives simultaneously.
The Maps and Plans section will exhibit the 1595 Atlas of Mercator. This atlas constitutes one of the most important contributions of Mercator to modern cartography. This atlas was in fact part of a wider project of cosmographic dimension, which was interrupted by Mercator's death. The successive steps of that project will be presented as 'focus' in the Librarium, the permanent exhibition area of the Library.
Several cartographic sources have been used by Mercator for his Atlas. One of them is the magnificent manuscript atlas of Christian Sgrooten, the Atlas Bruxellensis from ca. 1573. This unique source was hidden during centuries among the treasures of the Spanish court. In 1859, it was bought by the Royal Library and restored in 2007. The second exhibition, Une source royale pour Mercator [A Royal Source for Mercator], in the Nassau Chapel, will present the relationship between this masterpiece and Mercator's Atlas; the public will discover the maps from Sgrooten which directly inspired Mercator.
Venue: Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts, Brussels
URI: http://www.kbr.be
Mercator Digitaal
4 March - 26 August 2012
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Organizer: Stedelijke musea van Sint-Niklaas
De 500ste verjaardag van de geboortedag van Mercator op 5 maart 2012 zal in Sint-Niklaas niet ongemerkt voorbijgaan. Het Mercatormuseum is het enige cartografisch museum in België dat zoveel unieke schatten: wandkaarten, atlassen en globes van onze wereldberoemde cartograaf tentoonstelt. Voor de tentoonstelling Mercator Digitaal wordt dit uitzonderlijke erfgoed tijdelijk gepresenteerd in een nieuw decor. Zeven kiosken brengen een digitale presentatie van verschillende aspecten van Mercators leven en werk. Projecties van computeranimaties en videoreportages, 3D-technologie, interactieve aanraakschermen, enzovoort plaatsen de atlassen en globes in een spannende hedendaagse context. Een 3D-projectie zoomt in op diverse details van de roterende aardglobe van 1541. In het mini-planetarium lichten 51 intrigerende sterrenbeelden van de hemelglobe langzaam op. Een computeranimatie en videoreportage duiden de wereldvermaarde mercatorprojectie die de basis legde voor de moderne navigatie op zee. Een acteur die in de huid van Mercator kruipt, doet als hologram het verhaal van zijn levenswandel en werk. Geen tentoonstelling over Mercator zonder te spreken over zijn tijdgenoten die als opdrachtgever, mathematicus, cartograaf, drukker of handelaar bezig waren met cartografie. Deze cartografische connectie komt tot leven op een actuele sociale netwerksite. Grote aanraakschermen geven digitaal toegang tot de zeer accurate Kaart van Vlaanderen (1540). Het publiek kan er zelf historische kaarten én recente topografische kaarten en luchtfoto’s op elkaar plaatsen en er op inzoomen. De tentoonstelling sluit af met drie Mercatoratlassen uit 1584, 1595 en 1607 waarin de bezoeker digitaal kan gaan grasduinen. Mercator Digitaal richt zich tot een Nederlandstalig publiek van alle leeftijden, dat in erfgoed en cartografie van wereldformaat is geïnteresseerd. Het project wordt gecoördineerd door de Stedelijke Musea Sint-Niklaas in samenwerking met de Universiteit Gent Vakgroep Geografie, de Koninklijke Oudheidkundige Kring van het Land Van Waas en de Erfgoedcel Waasland. Belangrijke partners zijn de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België en het Nationaal Geografisch Instituut.
Address: Tentoonstellingszaal Zwijgershoek, Zwijgershoek 14, 9100 Sint-Niklaas
Language: Dutch
URI: http://musea.sint-niklaas.be/mercator/tentoonstellingen/mercator-digitaal
Voyages à la Carte (Road map panorama)
17 September 2011 – 2 September 2012
Rochetaillée-sur-Saône (near Lyon), France
Musée Henri Malartre
From the many facets of the road map world, the museum has chosen to present:
• a general history of French road maps from when they were first published up to the present day.
• an illustration, by means of a chronological set of maps, of the development of infrastructure and of communication networks (road, rail, river, air) of the same geographical area.
French
Address: Musée Henri Malartre, 645, rue du Musée, 69270 Rochetaillée-sur-Saône,
Contact: telephone: +33 4 78 22 18 80
URI: http://www.musee-mala tre.com/malartre/
L'Algérie à travers la collection des cartes et des plans de la Bibliothèque nationale de France [Algeria through the collections of the maps and plans department of the National French Library]
13 September - 5 November 2012
Paris
Address: BnF/INHA, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne, Paris
Kartenausstellung Hellwig
28 September – 11 November 2012
St. Wendel, Germany
Organizer: Stadtmuseum St. Wendel
A set of maps and plans from the Fritz Hellwig collection. Fritz Hellwig was a member of the Bundestag and a top international official. The collection covers the Lotharingian space (Lorraine, Alsace, Rhineland, Palatinate). You can see the Lorraine and the Saar, which were part of the Kingdom of France (enclave of Saarlouis, Provost Wallerfangen) and of the French Empire (departments of Moselle and Sarre), from 1513 to 1919.
Address/Venue: Stadtmuseum St. Wendel/Stiftung Dr. Walter Bruch, Mia-Münster-Haus, In der Mott (Lieferanschrift: Wilhelmstraße 11), 66606 St. Wendel
Contact: Telephone +49(0)6851 809 183, e-mail info@museum-wnd.de
More details:
Opening hours: Di-Fr 10-13 und 14-16.30 Uhr, Do 10-13 und 14-18 Uhr, Sa 14-16.30 Uhr, So/Fe 14-18 Uhr, Mo immer geschlossen
URI: http://www.museum-wnd.de/
Mercator Schätze – Die Duisburger Sammlung neu Präsentiert
Gerhard Mercator - a special exhibition
5 March – 2 December 2012
Duisburg, Germany
Organization: Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg
The exhibition features globes and a selection of maps and atlases by Gerhard Mercator.
Address: Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum, Johannes-Corputius-Platz 1, 47051 Duisburg
Opening hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday: 10.00 – 17.00, Friday: 10.00 – 14.00, Sunday: 10.00 – 18.00, closed on Wednesday.
Entrance fee: (no information)
Contact: telephone +49 203 283 2640, e-mail ksm@stadt-duisburg.de 
URI: http://www.stadtmuse m-duisburg.de/index.html
Steady as she goes - Sailing by Mercator's map
16 October 2011 - 8 September 2013
Rotterdam
How do you find your way on the open sea? You can forget about it if you do not have a proper map of the world. However, making such a map is a quite complex process. Try creating a good representation of a spherical shape like the Earth on a flat world map. The solution found by the sixteenth century cartographer Mercator became world-famous because sailors were able to plot their courses on nautical charts using a straight line for the first time. Discover everything about navigation at sea – both with and without Mercator’s map - at the family exhibition Steady as she goes! Historical maps and shipmodels will help you, but you will also be working with globes, binoculars, compasses, the stars and modern navigation equipment such as satellites and GPS. The only remaining copy of Mercator’s world map in atlas format and his recently restored globe can also be admired at the exhibition.
Address: Maritiem Museum Rotterdam, Leuvehaven 1, Rotterdam
Contact: Judith Freijser (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)
Maritiem Museum Rotterdam, Postbus 988, 3000 AZ Rotterdam
Telephone +31 10 402 92 42, e-mail j.freijser@maritiemmuseum.nl
URI: http://www.maritiemmuseum.nl
Kozani in the World of Maps
Indefinite
Kozani, Greece
The historic Map Library, with its roots in seventeenth century, keeps a small but important collection of maps, atlases and geography books, mainly from eighteenth century, referred to the period of Greek Enlightenment. For example, a copy of the 1797 Rigas Velestinlis 'Charta as well as the extremely rare 1800 Anthimos Gazis world map are kept there among other maps and atlases which were never before put on public display.
Address:
Δημοτική Χαρτοθήκη Κοζάνης, Πλατεία Λασσάνη και Αρχελάου, 501 00 Κοζάνη
Municipal Map Library of Kozani, Square Lassani and Archelaou, 501 00 Kozani, Greece
Contact: telephone +30 2463 50435 / 24610 24277, e-mail info@kozlib.com
URI : h tp://cartography.web.auth.gr/Kozani/KOZ_KOSMO_XARTON.htm
Exploring the Early Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection
Indefinite exhibition
Washington, USA
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3000 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. oc.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/