Pascal Brun from Castellar visits Dr Albert Ganado
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 […]
Read MoreDr Daniel Gullo visits Dr Albert Ganado
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 […]
Read MoreFoundation Meeting of the Malta Map Society 2009
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 […]
Read MorePresentation by Joseph Schirò at the Wirt iż-Żejtun Symposium
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 […]
Read MoreInvitation From Minister Of Culture Of Prague To Attend Unesco Ceremony 2018
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 […]
Read MoreBook Presentation To Minister Of Foreign Affairs 2018
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 […]
Read MoreFaculty Of Geography First Year Students See Joseph Schiro’s Collection Of Maps 2017
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 […]
Read MoreVladimiro Valerio, Another Member Of The MMS, Receives The Helen Wallis Award 2017
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 […]
Read MoreDr Albert Ganado Appointed On Numismatic Board Of The Malta Central Bank 2017
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.
Read MoreDr Albert Ganado Awarded Academic Excellence Award 2017
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 […]
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