Map exhibit in Baltimore (the extra credit write-up)

Hi everyone,
So overall, the map exhibit was o.k. I was expecting a little more out of it. First off, I loved the Christian map drawings which showed the world revolving around the sun. I loved it because of the appearance even though the idea was a little ridiculous, it was still really interesting to look at. Another thing I was really impressed with was the map showing Charles Lindbergh's flight between New York and Paris. There was so much detail with the drawings of the different countries. It was really interesting to witness how incredible the map looked with just pencil drawings. It was obvious that there was a huge amount of work put into creating the map. I was very interested also in the cartographic illustration of early Rome and the illustration of what the lifestyle was like in those days. I really liked the ancient Babylonian map also, which was created on brown paper and had pencil drawings of the different city features. The Native American maps were really interesting also, which showed maps that the tribes created which showed the territories that they claimed as their own. These maps were created for the government so that the tribes could keep their land.

There were some downsides to the exhibit. First of all, I thought there should of been more recent, new maps displayed. Every map seemed to be of ancient origin. The only new maps that were displayed in the museum were those that were created by people illustrating their neighborhoods in Baltimore through maps and people who created maps for general areas of Baltimore. I would of liked though to have seen some digital cartographic maps displayed, just so I could visually look at the difference between the ancient and new, recent maps. Some more maps could of shown more recent maps that people could relate to in this day and age, such as remote sensing type maps or chloropleth or proportional symbol maps.

The exhibit was worth seeing though, I hope another exhibit comes around with all the ancient maps and many new age maps displayed. I would really like to see this aspect!