Author: MMS

The fourth Wirt iż-Żejtun Symposium “The Maltese Village” was held on Saturday 20th October at the Gran Salon, Museum of Archaeology, Valletta. The title of the presentation was ‘The mapping of the Contrada di Sta Catherina’.  Abstract Maltese historical cartography offers not only maps which show a geographical reality transformed by mapmakers to a reduced […]

Joseph Schirò as representative of the Malta Map Society together with Bernadine Scicluna as representative of Heritage Malta were invited by the Minister of Culture of the Czech republic, Dr Ilja Smid, to Prague where they attended the presentation of the certificate given to Charles University from UNESCO after their joint bid with Malta to […]

Joseph Schirò presented a copy of the latest Malta Map Society publication titled The Island of Malta and the Order of St John by Grigory Krajevsky to the Hon. Min. Dr Carmelo Abela on 16 March 2018.  This has been translated by Elena Jasnetskaya Sultana and edited by Joseph Schirò  Also present was the publisher, Mr […]

Every year, first-year students following an undergraduate degree course in Geography are usually taken to the National Museum of Fine Arts where they can see the Albert Ganado Map Collection and are shown around by the Curator of the Cartographic Collection, Bernadine Scicluna. However owing to the fact that the collection was inaccessible to the […]

One of our members, Vladimiro Valerio, was awarded the prestigious Helen Wallis Award in 2017 for his lifetime achievement on the history of cartography. He becomes the fourth member of our society to have received this prestigious award. The other members are Valerie Newby, Wulf Bodenstein and Albert Ganado. The picture shows IMCoS Present Peter […]

The Central Bank of Malta has appointed Dr Albert Ganado an Honorary Member of the Numismatic and Historical Publications Advisory Board (NHPAB) and the first Honorary President of the Association of Friends of the CBM Numismatic Collection.

Our president, Dr Albert Ganado, has received another tribute in 2017. He has been honoured with the Academic Excellence Award from the Faculty of Law at the University of Malta. The ceremony was held on 1st December 2017. No one is more deserving than him. The award appropriately reflects the endless hours he has spent […]

For the first time, the Malta Map Society participated in the Maltex Fair, Maltex ‘17, which is the Malta Philatelic exhibition and collectors’ fair organized by MaltaPost p.l.c. It was held at the Casino Maltese, Republic Street, Valletta on 10-12 October.

Tom Sander, the editor of The Portolan, and his wife Jeanne visited Malta on 20-27 June. They visited the Zabbar Museum on 25 June where they were shown around by Michael Buhagiar, the curator of the museum. Tom Sander also paid a courtesy visited to Dr Ganado’s house on 26 June and afterwards, met the […]

                      Peder Westphal, the Vice-Chairman of the Danish Map Historical Society and his wife Lise Skou, paid a courtesy visit to Joseph Schirò at his residence in San Gwann, on Thursday 12 January. During the meeting, possible avenues of collaboration between the two societies were […]