Events

IMCoS Weekend in Oxford – September 2019

5/6/7 September 2019

At the beginning of September we will be holding a number of events in Oxford. On Friday 6th the....

Join the International Map Collectors’ Society

Membership benefits include:

The IMCoS Journal, published quarterly
International Symposium held in a different country; last year in the Philippines and Hong Kong; 2017 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

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News

New Executive Committee Members

2018

Dr Katherine Parker and Dr Mike Sweeting have joined the executive committee, now taking the number....

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.