International Map Collectors' Society
  • News
    The video of the IMCoS November's Map Show and Tell is now available. There are two ways to see the....
    Following the great feed-back we received from our first ever Zoom ‘Show & Tell’ in the....
    13 September  2021, at 12:00 pm EST/ 5 pm BST. In conjunction with the opening of the physical....
    The papers for the AGM taking place this year are all available on the AGM and Annual Accounts page....
    The recording of Wes Brown's talk is available on the IMCoS YouTube channel at this link:....
    Malcolm Young Lecture on IMCoS YouTube. The recording is now available at this....

    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 International Symposium, Brussels 2021

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