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The Map House collaborate with MATCHESFASHION at 5 Carlos Place

November 14, 2019by themaphouse Leave a comment

A collaborative curated and evolving exhibition by The Map House will be on show at 5 Carlos Place from Monday 4th November 2019 until Friday 28th February 2020 (open from […]

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Exhibitions & Events, Features, Prints

Homes & Antiques Magazine, February 2019

January 30, 2019by themaphouse

A fine selection of our sumptuous star maps are featured in this February’s Homes & Antiques Magazine, in their Look to the stars edit, full of stargazing-inspired pieces great for […]

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Features, Press

“The Greatest Explorer that Never Was” – Geographical Magazine, December 2018

November 22, 2018by themaphouse

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 […]

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Features, Press

Maps of London & Beyond, Adam Dant Exhibition: highlights and press features

July 24, 2018by themaphouse

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 […]

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Exhibitions & Events, Features, Press

“Antarctic Sanctuary: Weddell Sea Quest” Al Jazeera at The Map House

April 20, 2018by themaphouse

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 […]

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Features, Press

“The Fall of the Roman Empire” – BBC Wales / S4C

January 11, 2018by themaphouse

We opened our galleries to the film crew of Juniper Television for S4C / BBC Wales where they shot an episode for the T. V. documentary series “How Empires Fall”. […]

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Features, Interviews, Press

BBC This Week with Sajjan Gohel

June 16, 2017by themaphouse Leave a comment

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 shocking […]

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Features, Press

Passports: The One Show, with John Simpson

March 28, 2017by themaphouse

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 […]

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Features, Press

Blaeu’s of Brazil

December 16, 2016by themaphouse Leave a comment

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 […]

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Collections, Features

Country Life: Gentleman’s Life Issue. Autumn 2016

November 22, 2016by themaphouse Leave a comment

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 […]

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Features, Globes, Press

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For over a century, The Map House has specialized in collecting fine cartographic material. Whether you are planning a visit to our Knightsbridge gallery or are curious about antique maps and prints more generally, we welcome your interest.

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A transformative moment in history was the realisation that the Earth, therefore Man, was not the centre of our Solar System. 🌌💡 This change in perception was principally the work of Nicolaus Copernicus, who was born on this day in 1473. 🌍 Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, polymath and all-round genius, recognised that the long-standing difficulty with the apparent retrograde motion of the planets (when the planets appear to go back on their tracks when observed from earth) could be explained once one accepts both a heliocentric solar system and a turning earth. This idea was so radical, even heretical, that Copernicus only published his theory in "De Revolutionibus" in 1543 over 30 years after he’d first formulated it and while literally on his deathbed.The theory of a heliocentric system was so antithetical to many astronomers, most of whom were churchman, that it was over sixty years after the publication of "De Revolutionibus" before the heliocentric system was generally accepted. During this interregnum astronomers such as Tycho Brahe struggled to formulate a compromise between classical astronomy and “modern” astronomy which didn’t compromise scriptural authority. Find your place in the Universe, visit blog.themaphouse.com and search "Copernicus" to find out more 💫 #raremaps #celestial #maps #mapping #universe #map #🌍 #solarsystem #earth #wow #polymath #16thCentury #💡

‘When Maps Go to War: Pictorial Conflict Maps, 1900-1950’, a free talk by Director of The Map House and co-author of 'War Map', Philip Curtis 🌍🎙 Tomorrow, Thursday 20th February, starting 5pm at @The_Warburg_Institute, @UCL 🏛 For more info, click link in bio. #raremaps #pictorialmaps #map #mapping #history #freeevent #london #geography

Crumbs! What an unusual Edwardian novelty globe biscuit tin. 🍪🌍 Produced in 1906 by one of Britain’s most successful biscuit producers, Huntley & Palmer (est 1822), who became one of the biggest producers of cakes and biscuits in the world. One of the reasons for their success was that they were able to pack and ship their goods internationally (at their peak they were delivering to nearly 140 countries!), arriving in decorative and highly collectable keepsake tins like this globe biscuit tin. This was not just a fantastic method to ship and preserve the biscuits, but a marvellous form of advertising. 🌏 Huntley & Palmer are said to have even sent biscuit tins to the South Pole for Captain Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13) - a discovery of their fruitcake was found in at the 1911-12 Winter Quarters in Cape Adare, Antarctica. At the outbreak of the First World War, their biscuits were included in soldier’s rations but the novelty biscuit tins ceased to be produced as tin was required for the war effort. 🌎 The geography on the terrestrial globe highlights the extent of the British Empire in red. When the lid of the tin is lifted, an inscription "Huntley & Palmers Biscuits, Reading & London" can be read. The globe sits upon four brass ball feet and tilts on an axis similar to that of a globe mounted on a pedestal. An example of this globe biscuit tin resides in the V&A Museum's Ironwork Collection. 🌍 #globes #rare #collection #maps #antique #globe #britishempire #history #biscuits #snacks #mondaymorning #cakeculture