International Map Collectors' Society
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    Rodney Kite Powell will give the 2025‘Hernán Cortés Map of the Gulf of Mexico’There....
    Where: Royal Geographic Society, Exhibition Road. Kensington, LondonWhen: Friday 11 April 2025....
    'Show & Tell' 26 Feb. 2025. Sign up to talk about your favourite map, globe or other....
    London Map Fair (LMF) is taking place on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June, and it would be wonderful....
    Job Descriptions for the Membership and Financial Secretaries Because of the major....
    A new listing of books from the IMCoS Library that are available for members to purchase is now....
    1. Join the International Map Collectors’ Society

    Membership benefits include:

    • The IMCoS Map Journal, published quarterly
    • An International Symposium held in a different country: 2024 in Malta, 2023 in Helsinki, 2022 in Sydney and in Texas; 2021 in Brussels; 2018 the Philippines and Hong Kong.
    • The Malcolm Young lecture, delivered by a world-class map expert
    • Online ‘Show & Tell’ Collectors’ evenings
    • Members can search and read all the IMCoS Journals online, from 1980 up to the latest issue.

     

    Membership Subscription fees:

    Standard one year membership £60 – Premium three year membership £165  – Annual Junior (under 30 or receiving full-time education) £30 (50% of the annual rate) – Institutions (Libraries, Museums, Universities, etc) £75 for one year.

    Events

    Malcolm Young Lecture

    14 May 2025
    Rodney Kite Powell will give the 2025 Malcolm Young Lecture‘Hernán Cortés Map of the Gulf....
    Gallery

    In the Gallery you will find small exhibitions of maps, charts and globes. Each is based on a area of cartographic history. The first exhibition deals with the discovery of the passage around the southern American continent.

    Collecting

    This section of the website is dedicated to our collective knowledge about how best to go about collecting, buying, storing and caring for your maps.

    Journal

    IMCoS Map Journal

    The IMCoS Map Journal is a 64-page quarterly publication. It includes a wide range articles on the history of cartography addressing Western, Asian and Arabic mapping practices; its scope is designed to interest our worldwide membership. The journal also covers the activities of the Society, wherever they take place in the world, news from the mapping community around the world, book reviews and letters to the editor.

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