FESTIVAL OF MAPS, CHICAGO 2007
http://festivalofmaps.org
Partial Listing of Exhibitions Full information about all the exhibits is found via above the above web link. Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum – Exploring Our Universe through Maps
The Art Institute of Chicago – Maps of Paris, France 1789-1914
Brookfield Zoo – Mapping an Institution
Chicago Botanic Garden – Maps from the Chicago Botanic Garden Rare Book Collection and Plants in Print: The Age of Botanical Discovery
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs – Art on the Map II
The Chicago History Museum – a small exhibition of historic maps from their collection
Chicago Humanities Festival – cartographers, imaging experts and ecologists will be included in their 16-day long dialogue on Climate of Concern
Field Museum/Newberry Library – MAPS – over 100 remarkable maps
Museum of Contemporary Art – Mapping the Self
The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) – National Geographic’s Maps: Tools for Adventure
The Newberry Library – Ptolemy’s Geography in the Renaissance and Charting a People’s Empire: Chicago and the Cartographic Conquest of the American West
The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago – European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750.
Special Collections, The University of Chicago – The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome
Spertus Museum at Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies – Mapping Dystopia |