Events

The exhibition ‘Imaging Iceland: the Earliest Printed Maps 1507/08-1598’ is assembled from the collection of Karl Werner and Gisela Schulte. It can be seen at the Akureyi Museum.

For America's sesquicentennial (250th) anniversary, the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine has organized a year-long exhibition ‘Founding Memories: America at 250’. The exhibition highlights how the iconography of the American Revolution has been incorporated onto a wide variety of maps and cartographic materials from the [...]

The Union County Museum will feature a new display on a map collection put together from various sources. The collection shows the development of the North American continent with English land grants beginning in 1606, the establishment of the 13 original colonies, the addition of the western lands and the coming of the railroads. Illinois [...]

The David Rumsey Map Center exhibition, ‘You Are Here’, explores the unique relationship between transit maps and the identity of their subjects. The individual maps in this exhibit serve as a window into the histories of the places they represent and the history of transit cartography as a whole. Jayne Kilander, winner of the 2025 [...]

The Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference 2026 will be chaired by Professor Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University, UK), on the theme of ‘Geographies of inequalities: toward just places’. The conference will take place in the Society and in Imperial College London, as well as online.

The British Cartographic Society will hold its annual conference on 8 and 9 September. The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society will celebrate its 60th anniversary by hosting a workshop at the National Library of Scotland, from 10:00-17:30 (BST). The morning session will see the group visit the Map Library in the Causewayside [...]

Blurb: Hosted by the Washington Map Society, in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies, Andrew Kapochunas (New York Map Society Secretary) will discuss ‘How to find an image of ancestral Eastern- or Central-European towns on antique topographic maps’. The talk will be held on Zoom. [...]

The third Amsterdam Map Fair will be held at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. Free entry to The Maritime Museum. 33 national and international antiquarian map dealers will sell antique nautical charts, maps, atlases, globes, and prints. With three lectures.

The Washington Map Society will meet to listen to Gareth Fuller (a British artist and explorer) speaking about ‘Walking the Streets of Washington, DC to Create a Unique Map of Place’. Gareth walks hundreds of miles to create vast, hand-drawn portraits of place. From London and Beijing to Pyongyang and Washington, D.C., his work reveals stories and [...]

The 15th biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography, ‘Frozen Frontiers: 500 Years of Mapping Antarctica’, will take place in the Central Library at the University of Texas at Arlington. Additional details and registration will be available in June 2026.

The fall meeting of the Texas Map Society will take place in the Central Library at the University of Texas at Arlington. This event is conjoined with the Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography and will focus on Antarctic cartography. Additional details and registration will be available in August 2026.

The Brussels Map Circle will be having an excursion to Map-Mercator. More information coming soon.

The Annual Conference of the Western Association of Map Libraries will be held at Denver Public Library.

Hosted by the Washington Map Society, in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies, Chris Lane (retired Philadelphia Print Shop West owner and appraiser on Antiques Roadshow) will discuss ‘Mapping Philadelphia’. RSVP to John Docktor (washmap@gmail.com) to receive the meeting ID and passcode.

The Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, will hold a ‘Geography & Map Virtual Orientation: GIS and Geospatial Resources’. Join for a virtual orientation which aims to provide an overview of the geospatial resources of the Geography & Map Division, including an introduction to geographic information systems (GIS), spatial data formats, and the geospatial activities [...]

Japan Cartographers Association (JCA) and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) will host the 2026 IMCoS International Symposium. The theme is ‘Early interactions between the Western world and Japan seen through historical maps’. A pre-symposium tour is planned on 8 November to Nikko and a post-symposium tour is planned for 14-15 November to [...]

Hosted by the Washington Map Society, in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies, Kory Olson (Professor of French, Stockton University; Secretary and Vice-Chair, The International Society of the History of the Map) will discuss ‘Motoring Africa: Michelin’s Road Maps for an Exotic Continent’, based on [...]

In commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Kitāb-ı Bahriye, the International Piri Reis and Maritime History Symposium will be held at Piri Reis University.  The symposium aims to address the life and works of Piri Reis within their historical context through a multilayered perspective. The symposium will address, through an interdisciplinary approach, topics such [...]

The 25th edition of the Paris Map Fair will take place at Espace Cléry, in the heart of Paris. It will open its doors to visitors at 11 a.m on November 21. A cocktail reception will be held the day before, 20 November, and is open to visitors and participating dealers and will feature a [...]

This year the British Records Association annual conference will be held on the topic of records and archives which take the form of maps or geographical plans and charts. The conference will be on the theme ‘All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives’.

Hosted by the Washington Map Society, in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies, Tom Paper (Managing Partner Webster Pacific, LLC; California Map Society, Board of Directors Member at Large) will discuss ‘Mistakes on Maps’. Originally presented to the California Map Society and the Edinburgh Fringe [...]

Save the date for the next conference of the Brussels Map Circle, which will focus on nautical cartography!

The 3rd Venice International Map Fair will be held in Palazzo Pisani. Internationally renowned exhibitors will gather in Venice to display cartographic works, travel books, and masterpieces by famous landscape artists to an audience of collectors and novices alike. The event is organized by Palazzo Pisani-Revedin and Lux In Art Gallery, which will welcome collectors, enthusiasts [...]

The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) symposium and workshop will take place in Barcelona. The Symposium is organized in collaboration with the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya. The theme, ‘Mapping Outside the Metropole’, will think about centres of cultural production outside of the imperial capital. A two-day workshop (24 May - [...]

The International Map Collectors’ Society will be holding their International Symposium around the weekend of the Amsterdam Map Fair. Dates are tentative and more information to come.

The 32nd International Conference on the History of Cartography will be held in Oxford. Exact dates and additional details to be announced.