Events

In 1776, two Franciscan priests named Domínguez and Escalante set out from Santa Fe into territory unknown, lands claimed by Spain but controlled by the Tribes who called it home. With Indigenous guides and the help of Native tribes, the Padres and their party of 12 navigated harsh terrain, mapped vital trade routes, and documented [...]

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 10th Milan Map Fair returns: the international fair of antique cartography and city views in the heart of Milan. The exhibition will showcase its precious specimens at the Rotonda del Pellegrini, Via delle Ore n. 3, a short walk from the Duomo. The international fair dedicated to cartography and antique prints, which, due to the importance [...]

The Rocky Mountain Map Society will meet at 5:30 PM MT in History Colorado, 1200 N Broadway. In 1860, Jefferson Territory overlapped Utah, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Kansas. Federal law included territories in the decennial census, providing more flexibility in counting residents than states received.  Census data was originally collected to allocate representatives and manage [...]

Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Anyone interested in participating in the meeting must RSVP to John Docktor at washmap(at)gmail.com in order to receive the meeting ID and passcode. Meeting will start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM Central Time, 5:00 [...]

The exhibition ‘Cartes Imaginaires’ can be seen at the François-Mitterrand site of the Bibliothèque Nationale Française. It invites visitors on a voyage to the boundaries of the real and the fictional, discovering the links between cartography and the imaginary.

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 [...]

‘Emerging Delaware: Maps from the Preston Schell Collection, 1628-1868’ traces how Delaware emerged – through contested colonial claims, cartographic errors, legal disputes, and evolving political identity – from invisible territory to independent state. The exhibition can be seen at Rehoboth Beach Museum. The museum is closed on Wednesdays.

This event brings together around 40 of the leading national and international antiquarian map dealers as well as hundreds of visiting dealers, collectors, curators and map aficionados from all parts of the world. A very large selection of Original Antique Maps will be available for sale, ranging in age from the 15th C. to the [...]

The 31st International Conference on the History of Cartography will take in the main building of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague. The theme is ‘Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography’. Click here for the preliminary programme. For additional information, contact ichc2026@hiu.cas.cz.

The annual conference of the Society for the History of Discoveries will be held at Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland. In the evening of Wednesday July 29, there will be a reception and presentation. Panels will run on Thursday and Friday, with the Annual Banquet on Thursday evening. The theme of the conference is ‘Islands of Discovery’. [...]

The Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, is holding a ‘Geography & Map Division Virtual Orientation’ on Zoom. Reference librarians will present an introduction to the Geography and Map collections at the Library of Congress. This general orientation session will highlight a wide range of cartographic formats and subject-matter. The focus of the session [...]