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Stories
Map Stories
- Bayer's Uranometria
- Scientific Works from The Sunderland Collection
- A Painted World Map for Worship
- Munster's Monsters
- Ruscelli's Geographia
- A Tour of Cao Junyi's World Map
- Cao Junyi: A Complete Map of All Under Heaven
- Mapmaker Matrices
- Blowing in the Wind: A Brief History of Windheads on Maps
- How Maps Were Made
- (The) Front Matter(s)!
- Map Projections
- How to Read Old Maps II
- How to Read Old Maps I
Collection Stories
- Cultural Data Sculpting: A Partnership with EPFL
- Durer Wings: GRIMA Partnership
- Light Through the Ages...: GRIMA Partnership
- Can the Seas Survive Us?: Sainsbury Centre Loan
- The Sunderland Collection Original Print: Munster's Monsters
- The Sunderland Collection Original Print: Berlinghieri's World Map
- Introducing The Sunderland Collection Original Prints
Selected Bibliography
Exhibitions and Events
Conferences
- Maps: Digital | Analogue
26.02.2026 - Bodleian Libraries, Oxford - Challenging Maps and Exploration
30.10.2026 - Royal Geographical Society, London - Maps Are Too Exciting!
10.10.2024 - Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
Exhibitions
- Kristina Chan: Impossible Measures
01.10-28.10.2025 - Royal Geographical Society,. London - Kristina Chan: Habitable Climes
12.03-30.04.2025 - Canada House, London - Fathi Hassan: Shifting Sands
31.05.2024 - 9 Cork Street, London
Live Events
- WHAT'S YOUR MAP? live at the British Library: Secret Mapping
21.10.2026 - British Library, London - Kristina Chan: Habitable Climes Panel Discussion
03.04.2025 - Canada House, London - Fathi Hassan: Shifting Sands Panel Discussion
06.06.2024 - 9 Cork Street, London
Loans
- Can the Seas Survives Us?
15.03-26.10.2025 - Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Online Exhibitions
Podcast
About the Podcast
About our Host
Series 1:
- Do No Harm: Mapping the Jain Cosmos with William Dalrymple
- A Journey to the Top of the World with Dwayne Fields
- The Heart of Maps: Plotting Imagery and Power with Peter Barber
- Tolkein's Pipe: Maps and Fantasy with Roz Kaveney
- Lost Treasures: Reconstructing Al-Idrisi with Adam Lowe
- Vintage Cartography: Mapping the World of Wine with Jane Anson
Series 2:
- Wherefore the Map? with Ed Parsons
- Lines that Divide: The Melancholy of Colonial Mapping with Sathnam Sanghera
- Riches and Rivalry: The Evolution of European Cartography with Matthew Edney
- The Wonder of the Stars with Heidi B. Hammel
- Venice to Jappangu: Fra Mauro's World Map with Michael Yamashita
- Mapping Songlines with Margo Neale
Series 3:
- One World, One Ocean ... One Climate with Elizabeth Hogan
- Introducing Geographical Storyteller Louise E. Jefferson with Iris Taylor
- The Society of Cells: Brainbow Mapping with Jeff Lichtman
- WWII and the Dangers of Cartographic Lethargy with Susan Schulten
- Wild, Native, Extant - Exploring Emotional Geography with Anton Thomas
- Encountering Polar Bears and the Unknown with djoeke van Netten
Series 4:
- Silver Sails: Following the Galleon Route with Dr. Katie Parker
- Encountering the Big River with Hannah Claus
- Fighting the Robber of Youth with Dr. Animesh Sinha
- Smuggling Silk: WWII Escape Maps with Dr. Barbara A. Bond
- Out of the Cave: Encounters and Anima with Dr. Jago Cooper
- From Meadow to Metropolis: Mapping a World of Sound with Michaela Vieser
Art Programme
About The Sunderland Collection Art Programme
Meet the Artists
Our Curator
Articles:
- The Instruments behind Impossible Measures
- The Fragility of Knowledge and Climate
An essay by Dr. Katie Parker for Kristina Chan: Habitable Climes - Habitable Climes: Emblems
- A Friend of the Wind
An essay by Prof. Alessandro Scafi for Fathi Hassan: Shifting Sands
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