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.

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 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 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 [...]

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 [...]