Run don't walk to the Walters Art Museum map show
What I did on my lunch break:
Maps by Leonardo da Vinci. Maps by J.R.R. Tolkien, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin. 3-D topo military maps from the 18th century. Minard's map of Napleon's retreat from Moscow made famous by Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Medieval portolan charts and pilgrim maps. Pieces of a huge stone map of Rome from antiquity. A five-foot long renaissance panorama/map of Venice. An even longer Japanese road chart. Really cool. Thank you to the anonymous donor who paid for the exhibition.
Comments
Thanks for the thumbs-up. I can't wait to see this exhibit. Maps = cool.
Posted by: boombat | April 11, 2008 4:10 PM
Loved all of the maps that you mentioned. I must say that my fav map in the exhibition was the Geological Map of England. “The Map that Changed the World”, as it is often called, is very, very cool.
Posted by: Her Majesty of Maps | April 15, 2008 9:07 AM
Don't forget "The Civil War in 4 Minutes."
The whole exhibit was amazing.
Posted by: Chris | April 16, 2008 10:06 AM