International Map Collectors' Society
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    REGISTRATION FOR THE  BRUSSELS SYMPOSIUM (11.10 -14.10.2021) is now open. The optional three days....
    BOOK NOW FOR WOMEN AND MAPS ONLINE CONFERENCE AT THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD.  25 March 2021.....
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    COURSE ON THE HISTORY OF MAPS & MAPPING.  This short introductory course will be led by IMCoS....

    Join the International Map Collectors’ Society

    Membership benefits include:

    • The IMCoS Journal, published quarterly
    • An International Symposium held in a different country: 2018 the Philippines and Hong Kong; in 2017 in Hamburg; and 2016 took place in Chicago, and in Sydney this year
    • Annual dinner & The Malcolm Young lecture in London to coincide with the London Map Fair
    • Collectors’ evening
    • Annual trip to a significant map collection

     

    Membership Subscription fees:

    Standard one year membership £55 – Premium three year membership £150  – Annual Junior (under 25 or receiving full-time education) £27.50 (50% of the annual rate)

    Events

    38th IMCoS Symposium, Brussels 2021

    11 - 14 October 2021
    The 38th IMCoS Symposium will highlight the early Belgian contributions to the development of....
    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 Journal

    The IMCoS 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. Back issues of all the journals are available to read online for members.

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