Tomorrow (30th April) sees the opening of what looks like being a truly stunning exhibition, featuring some of the greatest maps in the world. The British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom, and one of the world's greatest research libraries will unveil its much anticipated Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art exhibition.
The display will feature around 100 maps from the library’s collection of over 4 million cartographic items. These will include some of most impressive, beautiful and largest maps ever created, many of them on display for the first time. The exhibition will place the maps in their original settings and reveal why these maps were designed for propaganda, as art or to convey power and influence.
British Library
Press Room: Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art
Magnificent Maps website
Magnificent Maps Curators’ Blog
Previews in the Press
Times Online Magnificent Maps at the British Library, NW1 28 Apr 2010
Guardian.co.uk Here Be Monsters 24 Apr 2010
Telegraph.co.uk Maps - the new rock’n’roll 16 Apr 2010
BBC News online The art of map making 30 Apr 2010
If you have been to this exhibition, please post a comment on it.
The display will feature around 100 maps from the library’s collection of over 4 million cartographic items. These will include some of most impressive, beautiful and largest maps ever created, many of them on display for the first time. The exhibition will place the maps in their original settings and reveal why these maps were designed for propaganda, as art or to convey power and influence.
British Library
Press Room: Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art
Magnificent Maps website
Magnificent Maps Curators’ Blog
Previews in the Press
Times Online Magnificent Maps at the British Library, NW1 28 Apr 2010
Guardian.co.uk Here Be Monsters 24 Apr 2010
Telegraph.co.uk Maps - the new rock’n’roll 16 Apr 2010
BBC News online The art of map making 30 Apr 2010
If you have been to this exhibition, please post a comment on it.
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