International Map Collectors' Society
  • News
    Paris & Salamanca Call for Papers, October 2023 1.Traveling objects:The material culture....
    London Map Fair  10-11 June 2023. London remains the capital of the art world, and the Summer....
    Show & Tell 28 Feb. 2023. Sign up to talk about your favourite map, globe or other cartographic....
    The registration fee for the Edinburgh visit contains the following:Wednesday 17th....
    May 2023 an Excursion to Leith, EdinburghAugust 2023 International Symposium in....
    The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography is a funding opportunity....

    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
    • Annual trip to a significant map collection

     

    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).

    Events

    Show and Tell February 2024

    Early notification of our next Show and Tell is planned for Tuesday 20th February, 2024.  Further....
    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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