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Dr Albert Ganado and the MMS Committee had the honour of an audience with His Excellency Dr George Vella to congratulate His Excellency’s appointment as President of the Republic of Malta. The very warm welcome that His Excellency afforded us during the visit was overwhelming. We were all impressed by His Excellency’s keen interest shown […]

  In the last edition of the MMS Journal, Rod Lyon, a Committee member and the PRO of the Malta Map Society, wrote a very interesting article on the village of Castellar in the Alpes-Maritimes, France, situated near the Italian frontier, and only 33 km away from Nice and 20 km away from Monaco. Castellar […]

On 11 December, Dr Daniel Gullo the Director of the Malta Study Center of the Monastic Hill Library in Minnesota and the archivist, Dr Valeria Vanesio, paid a courtesy visit to Dr Albert Ganado at his residence in Valletta. During the meeting Dr Gullo mentioned four manuscript portolan maps of Malta which are held at […]

The foundation meeting of the Malta Map Society was held on the 14th of November 2009 in the Pardo Hall at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Merchants Street, Valletta. The meeting started at 10.35 a.m. with an introductory speech by Albert Ganado who thanked the audience present for accepting his invitation to lay the […]

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 […]

The AGM was held on Saturday, 28 February 2015 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pardo Hall, Merchants Street, Valletta at 10.30 a.m. This was a special AGM as it launched the year in which the Malta Map Society celebrated its  5th anniversary since its foundation. The President and the Committee would like to thank […]

22-25 September 2011 The Malta Map Society hosted The International Map Collectors’ Society (IMCoS) Malta International Symposium which was held on 22-25 September 2011. See page covering IMCoS Malta Symposium.

The sub-committee for the Helen Wallis Award of IMCoS unanimously selected Dr Albert Ganado as the 2011 recipient for the prestigious Helen Wallis Award, in recognition for his varied contributions to cartography which have earned him the respect of academics and collectors worldwide.