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Subject: Ukrainian map exhbition at new Ukrainian Museum in Manhattan
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:04:30 -0400
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Sunday, April 20, will see the opening of a major exhibition of antiquarian
maps at the Museum.
The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern
Ukraine, 1550-1799,
includes 42 original maps published by European mapmakers over a 250-year
period. A majority
of the maps in the exhibition are from the Museum's Marie Halun Bloch
Collection, which consists
of 52 maps bequeathed to the Museum by the Ukrainian American writer of
children's books upon
her death in 1998. Dr. Bohdan Kordan, the curator of the exhibition, will
be on hand for its opening.
Dr. Kordan is Professor of International Relations and Chair of the
Department of Political Studies,
St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. He has
curated several map
exhibitions, including Black Sea, Golden Steppes: Antiquarian Maps of the
Black Sea Coast and
the Steppes of Old Ukraine (Kenderdine Gallery, University of
Saskatchewan, 2001); Land
of the Cossacks: Antiquarian Maps of Ukraine (Oseredok, Winnipeg, 1987);
and XVII & XVII
I Century Maps of Ukraine (Ring House Gallery, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, 1985).
A fully illustrated, bilingual catalogue with an introduction by Dr. Kordan
will accompany the
exhibition. The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early
Modern Ukraine,
1550-1799, is scheduled to be on view until October 5.
Alice C. Hudson
Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788
[log in to unmask], 212-930-0589, fax 212-930-0027
Hours: 1-7:30 Tu & Wed, 1-6 Thurs-Sat. Closed Sun, Mon.
http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html
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