On Wednesday 30 October 2019 at 6.30 p.m., in the magnificent ballroom of the Casino Maltese in Valletta, the members of the Malta Map Society and the general public assisted to two very illuminating talks delivered by Dr Daniel Gullo who spoke on the ‘Mapping Maltese Slavery in the Early 18th-Century: Records from the Archives […]

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 […]

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 […]