Events

Leith (Edinburgh) Scotland, May 2020

12–14 May 2020

The next IMCoS UK visit will be based in Leith, Edinburgh’s historic port which has been....

Join the International Map Collectors’ Society

Membership benefits include:

The IMCoS Journal, published quarterly
International Symposium held in a different country: last year the Philippines and Hong Kong; in 2017 in Hamburg; and 2016 took place in Chicago
Annual dinner & 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 £50 – Premium three year membership £135 – Annual Junior (under 25 or receiving full-time education) £25 (50% of the annual rate)

News

IMCoS International Symposium Sydney

7–11 September 2020

We are pleased to confirm that our 39th International Symposium will take place in Sydney and....

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.