Brussels,
BelgiumOrganisation: BIMCCIn december 2025 the new cartography museum 'MAP-Mercator' will open its doors in Sint-Niklaas.
About 400 maps, atlasses, globes and instruments (with 4 ‘Vlaamse Topstukken’ (Flemish masterpieces)) will be presented on a huge surface of 1.150 square metres. The presentation will be hybrid: a classical display of maps and documents combined with innovative multimedia.
The museum will ask the simple question: “What is a map?” and enquires why and how maps (are and) were made and how they (are and) were used. Curator and historian of the museum Ward Bohé will take along the attendants in the complexe story of ‘the making of’. How did we create the thematic exhibition plan? Which criteria did we develop for the selection of the different historical maps, globes and atlasses? What know how will be embedded in digital presentation technology that will be used? A lot of questions and even more answers! The exhibition plans will be shown. With an overview and explanation of some 100 of a total of 400 maps, atlasses and globes that will be displayed.
