Kristjana S. Williams at The Map House
From 10th March to 21st April, Icelandic artist Kristjana S Williams will once again be exhibiting her extraordinary and immersive map-based artwork at London’s oldest map specialist, The Map House.
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Putting Women On The Map
This International Women’s Day, it seems only right that we are celebrate women in cartography, highlight their achievements and put them on the map. Here are a selection from The […]
Maps of the Month
This feature on our blog is dedicated to an extraordinary collection of sea charts from the Amsterdam edition of the “Neptune Francois,” the “Cartes Marines a l’Usage des Armees du […]
Map of the Month
Aaron Arrowsmith is often cited as the greatest English map maker of the 18th Century, with his monumental wall maps of all parts of the world reaching a geographical apogee […]
The Great Fire
What was a small fire that started just after midnight on the 2nd September 1666 at the bakery of Thomas Farriner in Pudding Lane, swept west across the City causing […]
BBC News filming, July 2020
The Map House hosted BBC News reporter James Waterhouse to film a segment about the newly announced ‘air bridges’ following travel restrictions set in place due to the international corona-virus […]
Collaborative Exhibition with MATCHESFASHION
A collaborative curated and evolving exhibition by The Map House will be on show at 5 Carlos Place from Monday 4th November 2019 onwards. Please check here to find up […]
Unique Collection of Operational D-Day Maps
Utah An extraordinarily rare surviving ultra-top secret operational map for landing craft commanders on Utah Beach used during the D-Day landings. “Top Secret – Bigot” was the Allies’ highest level […]
The Mapping of the Moon: 1669 – 1969
The Map House is delighted to announce a new exhibition entitled The Mapping of the Moon: 1669-1969, exploring 300 years of lunar and celestial cartography from early astronomers in the 17th […]
Nellie Bly, Game Changer
This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating a remarkable woman – pioneer of investigative journalism in America, rights activist and intrepid traveller, Elizabeth Jane Cochran (1864-1922), better known as Nellie […]
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