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  Matthew Mallia, the youngest member of our Society and a second-year History B.A. (Hons) student at the University of Malta, won the 2016 Annual Student Essay Competition organized by The Society for Army Historical Research of London. The title of his essay was ‘Galloping at everything’:Wellington and the British Heavy Cavalry charge at Waterloo.

The foreword for Dr Ganado’s Valletta Città Nuova – a map history (1566-1600), published in 2003, was written by the world-renowned cartographic specialist David Woodward. Shortly afterwards, Woodward visited Malta for the launch of the book and he had asked Dr Ganado to take him to see and photograph the monuments of the two architect-engineers, […]

Senator, Mayor of Pontebba Province of Udine and Member of the European Parliament, Isabella de Monte visited Dr Ganado’s house on 27 August 2016. She was in Malta and was accompanied by Rod Lyon. Isabella was shown around Dr Ganado’s 1570 home which houses his unique collections. She showed Dr Ganado a very rare manuscript […]

Another activity in which the MMS has taken the initiative and collaborated very actively with Heritage Malta is the submission of the four-state series of siege-maps by Giovanni Camocio for nomination to be listed in Unesco’s International Memory of the World Register. The activity, which was held on 20 May at the Museum of Archaeology […]

The Geography Department, in collaboration with Malta Map Society and Heritage Malta, organised a map viewing session for Dr Alexander Kent, to showcase highlights of the Albert Ganado Malta Map Collection at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta. The map viewing session offered interesting opportunities of discussion and exchanges on some of the finest […]

On 7 April 2015, Dr Ganado received a courtesy visit from Mr & Mrs Paul de Candt who is a member of the Brussels Map Circle. An engineer by profession, he runs the company ‘Aquaterra’ which specialises in the scanning, geo-referencing and digitising of old maps. During the meeting at his house, they were shown […]

                    The filmshow entitled ‘My Dear Friend and Map Engraver’ which the Malta Map Society organised on Wednesday 26 November 2014 at St James Cavalier in Valletta was a very successful event generated a lot of interest and was extremely well attended also by students from […]

On Friday 19 September at 10.30 am, two world-renowned antique map collectors met at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, Malta’s capital. They were 90 year old Dr. Albert Ganado, whose Malta map collection was exchanged with the Malta Government for his 1571 house, and 80 year old Glen McLaughlin, whose collection of […]

Dr. Albert Ganado, our President, pictured at his special birthday party held on March 8th 2014 at the residence of his daughter Rita, after the Annual General Meeting of the Malta Map Society.

  Lt Cdr John Blake gave a public lecture entitled Here be Monsters: How the Sea Chart and Navigational Maps shaped our World in the Music Hall at St James Cavalier on Monday 2 October 2013 at 6.30 p.m.