BBC This Week with Sajjan Gohel
We were recently joined by the BBC’s This Week programme for filming in our galleries. In a personal film, Sajjan Gohel discusses security and terrorism just days after the awful […]
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London Original Print Fair: Highlights
We thoroughly enjoyed our very first London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of the Arts (find out more here). Thank you to everyone who came to visit us […]
London Original Print Fair at The Royal Academy of the Arts.
We are excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at the London Original Print Fair in May, held at the Royal Academy of the Arts. An annual affair, the London Original Print Fair […]
Passports: The One Show, with John Simpson
BBC’s The One Show visited The Map House for a spot of filming in our galleries to discuss the history of the passport with foreign correspondent and world affairs editor of […]
Blaeu’s of Brazil
These maps impressively detail the Dutch possessions in Brazil. Whilst these colonies were short lived – only existing from 1630 until 1661 – they are powerful in promoting the colony […]
Country Life: Gentleman’s Life Issue. Autumn 2016
Some of our beautiful globes and scientific instruments, as well as an impressive map of the British Empire feature in this season’s Country Life Magazine, Gentleman’s Life Issue. Thank you […]
Artist & Empire: (EN)COUNTERING COLONIAL LEGACIES
The National Gallery of Singapore is currently exhibiting Tate Britain’s exquisite collection Artist & Empire. We are proud to have our map of the British Empire by Sir Walter Crane included […]
