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Anthony Rabin spotted this at the National Archive in Kew, England. “There Be Monsters was inspired by the Map and Atlas collection within The National Archives. The aim was to use devices and imaginary creatures inscribed on some of the oldest maps to inspire adults with experience of mental ill […]

There be Monsters

Gavin Fleming spotted this beautiful portrait on a map background at Maanskin in Greyton. The artist is Bella Maree

Art on a Map

Reinder shared this. “This window is part of the interior of the Amsterdam Bookshop ‘Pied à Terre’, that specializes in travel books, maps and guides about counties, cities, hiking etc. Cf. https://www.scheltema.nl/piedaterre/ Customers can add a Post-it, and mark the spot they visited. What do you think? Best regards from the Netherlands” […]

Pied a Terre

Anthony Burnett sent this pic of a stunning wall hanging from the Art Gallery of NSW in Australia he said “It’s missing Antarctica at the top, but otherwise pretty amazing.” For the northern hemisphere geographers who are confused, remember that we see the world upside down to our friends in […]

Woven Chronicle

Reinder sent us this pic of a wooden map at the entrance to the Amsterdam Town Hall

Wooden Amsterdam

Anthony Burnett sent me this pic. “There’s an information sign at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-33.8059/151.19922 that uses wooden planks to represent the streets. Willoughby Road is the main join. French’s Road is the side road. The street numbers are the labels. Perhaps a darker colour would be better for the labels, but it still makes […]

Willoughby Road – OpenStreetMap Street Sign

Marianne Pietersen sent us this pic. “This a photo I took at an exhibition about the Aztecs (in the Australian Museum in Sydney – Darlinghurst).Also in December 2014. This tableau has a painted background and on the right hand top you can see a bit of the map of Teotihuacan.The […]

Teotihuacan

Until recently I knew very little about Vermeer, we went to a short talk about one of his paintings and the guide pointed out that in most of his portraits there is a picture and that was because as well as an artist he was an art dealer and he […]

Vermeer’s Map

Gavin Fleming sent this to us. “Map of Johannesburg projected on the University of Witwatersrand Great Hall as part of its centenary celebrations (Wits is my alma mater; photo credit Dr Mary Evans)” Pretty spectacular!

University of Witwatersrand Centenary

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