Events

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR IMCoS Symposium in Hamburg

8 - 12 October 2017

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN.We have an array of interesting seminars, excursions and rare maps....

Join the International Map Collectors’ Society

Membership benefits include:

The IMCoS Journal, published quarterly
Annual International Symposium held in a different country each year; this year in Hamburg; 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

Helen Wallis award winner

16 June 2017

At the annual IMCoS dinner Vladimiro Valerio, Professor at the University IUAV of Venice, was....

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.