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Antwerp, Belgium

Organisation: MAS

Meet the expedition members of the Belgica. Some 125 years ago, they set off from Antwerp to the last blind spot on the world map: Antarctica. The expedition got stuck in the polar ice and made history as a result. Learn how the men managed to survive, who followed in their footsteps, and what Antarctica is like today.
Venue: Museum Aan de Stroom - Hanzestedenplaats 1, 2000 Antwerp
Language: Dutch
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Athens, Greece
The General State Archives of Greece organises an exhibition of archival material dedicated on "Athens: the birth of a capital city", to celebrate the 190th anniversary of the transfer of the capital of the Greek state from the city of Nafplio to Athens, by Royal Decree of the 18th-30th September 1834. The exhibition is structured in eight sections and it presents the new city of Athens in terms of its urban planning and layout, through a very rich archival material (maps,lithographs, sketches, scrapbooks, documents, etc.).
Venue: General State Archives of Greece – Central Service
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Edinburgh, Scotland
Through personal stories, photography and memorabilia, this new exhibition charts the creation and use of maps during the Second World War.
Between 1939 and 1945, over 3,000 million maps were produced for the Allied, Soviet and German forces during the Second World War.
Originally used to navigate the jungles of south-east Asia or for devising an escape plan, the maps on display are now mementoes, kept alongside medals and photographs to say ‘I was there.’
From aerial photography to war diaries, and even a fashionable dress made from escape and evasion maps, the exhibition introduces us to a Prisoner of War, an RAF pilot, a Brigadier and an army chaplain through the maps they kept as a memory of their war service.
Mor information here.
Venue: National War Museum

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Stanford , USA

Organisation: David Rumsey Map Center

In the wake of disaster, maps play many roles, shaping understanding of the event in the immediate aftermath, serving as visceral portrayals for those who were not there, and communicating both scale and extent of the tragedy. They gavanize support for rebuilding by showing new possible futures and can be used to memorialize the event, inscribing the memory over the landscape. Drawing upon sources from historical representations to contemporary satellite imagery, the maps in this exhibition explore various ways communities use maps to make sense of calamity and move forward from it.
The exhibition was curated by Stanford student Muhammad Dhafer, winner of the 2024 California Map Society student exhibition competition.
More information here.
Venue: David Rumsey Map Center