Standing exhibition of the funds of the Map Library
The ICC's exhibitions room hosts a standing exhibition of the map library's funds. The exhibition is distributed in 6 ambits:
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Aerial photographies of Catalonia: the Institut Cartogrà fic de Catalunya's photographic fund
Related to the Landscape indicators. Challenges and prospects seminar and the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Institut Cartogrà fic de Catalunya (ICC), is hold an exhibition that recovers images from the ICC photographic funds in order to show landscape evolution in Catalonia.
The ICC photographic fund assembles aerial photographies collections from different sources since the 1940 decade. Since the 1984, the ICC has its own flight team and yearly carries out regular photographic campaigns, whose result increases and updates the fund. Year 2005 we began to use aerial digital cameras, so analogic format gave place to digital format.
The Map Library of the ICC helds a Photo library in order to preserve all this documental material that is composed nowadays of more than 350,000 black/white, color and infrared aerial photographies.
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"Peru of Reparaz: the vision of the geographer and the sites of the patrimony"
Year 2007, Peru is the invited country of the International Book Fair LIBER 2007, which is held in the fairground of Montjuïc in Barcelona (http://www.liberbcn.com), from October 3rd to 5th. The fact that the Institut Cartogrà fic de Catalunya counts in its Map Library (Cartoteca de Catalunya) with the library private file of a geographer, who was trained in Catalonia but practised an important part of his career in Peru, has caused the organization of an exhibition on this personage: "Peru of Reparaz: the vision of the geographer and the sites of patrimony". This is a photographic exhibition on the places that the geographer Gonzalo de Reparaz (1901-1984) described and photographed in his country of reception -Peru-, where he settled after having to flee from Catalonia due to political reasons in 1939. Reparaz, author of the first regional monograph of a Catalan territory -La Plana de Vic (1928)-, carried out an intense task of recognition of the Peruvian places of interest that took him to describe, for the first time, the magnitude and importance of the Colca's Canyon, as well as all the barren river basins of this country.
The exhibition is open to public from October 2nd to 11th, from Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00 hours. The entrance is free.
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Maps in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Exhibition about maps in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) opens January 24th 2007 and can be visited from January 25th until March 30th 2007 in the ICC's exhibitions room (in Montjuïc Park, Barcelona). Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 18:00 and Saturdays from 10:00 to 19:00 (see poster). Free entrance.
This exhibition is held also in Sevilla from May 31st to July 8th(see poster), in Zaragoza from September 6th to 28th (see poster), in Huesca from October 5th to 21st(see poster), in Teruel from October 26th to November 16th (see poster), in Granada from November 29th to December 21st (see poster) and in Malaga from January 14th to 31st 2008. This shows are coordinated by the Direcció General de la Memòria Democrà tica.
Make a virtual tour around the exhibition.
It has been published a catalogue related to this exhibition (Catalan and Spanish versions available), which shows the history of the cartography in the aforementioned age, including examples about maps made and used by different institutions of that time. This document can be acquired in the ICC's shop in Montjuïc at a price of 12,00€ (taxes included).
The Spanish Civil War gave rise to the production of a huge amount of military cartography. During the almost three years the war lasted, cartographic services from both sides plotted millions of maps. Despite the similarity to some other wars that devastated Europe in the first half of the 20th century, production of cartography in Spain was special because it was related to civil war circumstances and to the exceptional situation of the Spanish military cartography in middle 30's. In any case, cartographic production made during the Civil War was an unprecedented fact in the history of the Spanish cartography. From the same unfinished map of the territory (Map of Spain 1:50000) each side made an effort to obtain, process and publish cartographic information, in order to provide armies with this essential tool, cartography. As long as the Republic kept official institutions, pro-Franco army -which did not have maps at the beginning' was able to obtain foreign help. So, Italian volunteers arrived with a cartographic and surveyor section that made a lot of cartography about the Ebre battle. An example of this cartographic production forms a part of the ICC documentary fund and now are exhibited for once. |
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Historical fund of the Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya, stored at the Institut Cartogrà fic de Catalunya
On February 7th 2003, the cataloguing of the Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya's historical fund was presented to the public. This fund was confiscated in January 1939 and restored to Generalitat de Catalunya in 1984. You can consult the description of this fund at Historical found of the SMC On occasion of the presentation, an exhibition at the ICC headquarters was organized. The whole documentation is stored at the Map Library of Catalonia and it is open to general public. |
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Aerial photographies of Catalonia: the Institut Cartogrà fic de Catalunya's photographic fund
Within the frame of the Photographic Spring 2002, the Map Library organized an exhibition of aerial photographies at the ICC's exhibitions hall on May 9-29. This exhibition displayed some pieces stored at the photographic library, and it was structured in 3 ambits:
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The maps of the Catalonia's territory during two hundred years: 1600-1800
Under the title, The maps of the Catalonia's territory during two hundred years: 1600-1800, the Map Library organized an exhibition within the frame of the acts planned on occasion of the XXII International Congress of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, which was held in Barcelona on September 16-22, 2001. According to their title, the whole maps of Catalonia that are known actually were exhibited -the Principality of Catalonia as a whole, never partially- which represent an amount of 64, and in their first edition, when it was possible. This condition was fulfilled in almost the 90% of the fund. Joining this choice involved the collaboration of different documentary centers as well as private collectors. The Map Library, under these previously established conditions, was able to collaborate with an amount of 15 pieces. As a testimony, we have the catalogue which reproduces the 64 maps, carefully catalogued and documented. The Exhibitions Hall of the ICC was the venue of the exhibition, and it was opened to general public from September 19th till October 11th, it had a great echo in the media and almost a thousand people visited it. |
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