41st IMCoS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
The Malta Map Society has been honoured to host the 41st International IMCoS Symposium in Malta. This will be the second time that the Society will be hosting the IMCoS International Symposium which was last held in Malta in 2011. The Symposium which will be named Imago Melitae 2024: 41st IMCoS International Symposium is scheduled for October 16 – 19, 2024.
Six (6) lectures by well-known figures in the cartographical world will be given along with visits to the National Library, MUZA, and Lascaris War Rooms in Valletta, the Maritime Museum and the Inquisitors Palace in Vittoriosa and the National and Ecclesiastical Archives in Rabat and Mdina.
The International Map Collectors’ Society (IMCoS)
IMCoS was the idea of Yasha Beresiner, a map and stamp dealer in London, who had arranged a seminar in Birmingham on 6 June 1980. During that activity an acting committee was formed with Malcolm Young as chairman, a computer expert as secretary, an accountant as treasurer, a journal editor and other committee members.
The Society held its first International Symposium in Amsterdam in 1982, and every year it has organised Symposiums in many parts of the world including Europe, Israel, North America, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Turkey, New Zealand, Guatemala, South Korea and South Africa. The first International Symposium in Malta was held in 2011. For that occasion, Maltapost issued a cancellation stamp to commemorate the event.
An IMCoS Helen Wallis award has been presented each year to individuals who, in the opinion of the Selection Committee, has been responsible for cartographic contributions of great merit and interest to map collectors worldwide. The first award of the special silver plate went to Valerie Scott (now Newby) who was Editor of The Map Collector and author of a series of county histories. Dr Albert Ganado, our Honorary Life President, received this prestigious award in 2011.
Meetings of the Malta Map Society Executive Committee have already been held to formulate a programme and a draft programme will be issued soon.