Step into the shadows at Secret Maps, a major new exhibition revealing the stories hidden in some of history’s most mysterious maps.
Maps have always been more than just tools for navigation – in the hand of governments, groups and individuals, maps create and control knowledge. In Secret Maps, we trace the levels of power, coercion and secrecy that lie behind maps from the 14th century to the present day, and uncover the invisible forces that draw and distort the world around us.
More information on the exhibition page.Venue: British Library
Analyzing the visual language of maps. Lines are the foundation of the visual language of maps. For centuries, mapmakers have experimented with the placement, density, and purpose of lines like these to make maps seem simple and objective. These lines are never as straightforward as they seem. This exhibition follows lines on maps to their extremes. By exploring how maps use lines to make the world legible, the exhibition will bring you through examples of mapmakers and artists who have created, bent, and broken these linear rules. By following these lines, you will find maps to be more complex and more motley than they ever imagined!
All information here.Venue: The Newberry Library
‘Maps in books’ is a temporary exhibition in the MAP - Curiosum exhibition hall and acts as an ‘opening precursor’ to the new MAP - Mercator experience museum in Sint-Niklaas. From the 15th century, maps appeared in atlases and travelogues, as evidence of discoveries or as instruments of power and governance. Regional maps recorded land boundaries and property. Military maps determined strategies in battles.
All information on the exhibition here.Venue: MAP (Sint-Niklaas)
