Maps, Myths and Narratives

Last update: 08-12-2009 01:57 PM

Cartography of the Far North

13 July 2009 - 26 September 2009

Exciting exhibition about the cartography of the Far North

From the earliest times, maps have depicted the Far North in a seamless combination of fact and fiction. This combination is by no means unique to the Arctic - or to maps for that matter. Inn art as well as in science, meaning springs from the meeting of observation, imagination and ambition. Few media show this more clearly than the map.

Headlines:

  • Mythical and Early Mapping
  • Mapping the East Coast
  • Hinrich Johannes Rink (1819-1893) and the Geology of the Disko Bay
  • Mapping the Ice
  • Mapping the Rocks
  • Mapping for Sovereignty