Publication date: 
2016/03/08
Faculty of Civil Engineering opened the travelling exhibition “Enchantment of old maps” in its atrium on 1 March. Seven unique mapping works from map collections of five institutions are presented. The exhibition, which can be visited by 25 March, is composed by posters on the using of old maps for research purposes in the field of geodesy and cartography at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. This set of panels is supported by the Faculty of Civil Engineering, which has a long tradition of teaching cartography.

The traveling exhibition was prepared by the Czech Cartographic Society, along with the Palacky University in Olomouc, Masaryk University in Brno, Charles University in Prague, homeland museum in Olomouc and Science Library in Olomouc, on the occasion of the International Year of maps, proclaimed by the International Cartographic Association, ICA, and the United Nations for the period 2015 - 2016 Exhibition panels are free to borrow. After the exhibition, they will be úresented, for example, at high schools and libraries.

Video of the exhibition opening can watched here. Czech radio informed about the event as well.