Live globe making demonstration at The Map House with Loraine Rutt
The Map House is excited to announce a unique opportunity to see a demonstration of globe making by artist and globe maker Loraine Rutt of The Little Globe Co. on […]
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“The Greatest Explorer that Never Was” – Geographical Magazine, December 2018
The Map House features in the December issue of Geographical, Magazine of The Royal Geographical Society, a 5-page Explorers feature by Charles Roberts on George Melville Boynton, the late 19th Century explorer, occasional mapmaker and […]
The Nearest Point of Heaven and Earth
From Olympus to Vesuvius, Everest to Kilimanjaro, mountains have held a powerful even intoxicating significance to every culture on earth. They have inspired poets, pilgrims and explorers alike and their […]
Maps of London & Beyond, Adam Dant Exhibition: highlights and press features
As our Adam Dant exhibition, Maps of London & Beyond, comes to a close, we thought we would share some of the highlights and press features from the past three weeks. Maps […]
Maps of London & Beyond: Adam Dant at The Map House with TAG Fine Arts
In partnership with TAG Fine Arts, The Map House is delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting artist and cartographer, Adam Dant in our galleries to celebrate the release […]
The Extraordinary Life of George Melville Boynton
This unusual, and possibly unique, 1908 map of South America is a superb relic of the Heroic Age. It is a recruitment poster for “The Discovery Darkest America Expedition”, a […]
Finding Our Place in the Universe
The story of early mapmaking has always been about the conflict between innate beliefs and empirical evidence. The accuracy of maps was frequently distorted by partial, contradictory and misunderstood geographical […]
Military Map of Zulu Land
Published during the Anglo-Zulu War, this superb map is a rare surviving 19th century campaign map that was actually used by officers in the field during the war. Printed by […]
“Antarctic Sanctuary: Weddell Sea Quest” Al Jazeera at The Map House
In April we welcomed Al Jazeera to The Map House to film part of a documentary in their award-winning Earthrise series and with Greenpeace. Presenter Nick Clark and cameraman Ben […]
The Winning Post
The ‘Sport of Kings’ was first brought to Great Britain by the Romans. Originally a spectacle for the public, racing continued as a largely private event for centuries after the […]