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.

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 […]

The Malta Map Society is very proud to announce that the rare set of four maps of the Great Siege of Malta of 1565 by Giovanni Francesco Camocio have been acknowledged by UNESCO to be included in the International Memory of the World Register. The nomination form had been jointly submitted by Heritage Malta and the […]

For the first time, the Malta Map Society participated in the Maltex Fair, Maltex ‘17, which is the Malta Philatelic exhibition and collectors’ fair organized by MaltaPost p.l.c. It was held at the Casino Maltese, Republic Street, Valletta on 10-12 October.

Tom Sander, the editor of The Portolan, and his wife Jeanne visited Malta on 20-27 June. They visited the Zabbar Museum on 25 June where they were shown around by Michael Buhagiar, the curator of the museum. Tom Sander also paid a courtesy visited to Dr Ganado’s house on 26 June and afterwards, met the […]

                      Peder Westphal, the Vice-Chairman of the Danish Map Historical Society and his wife Lise Skou, paid a courtesy visit to Joseph Schirò at his residence in San Gwann, on Thursday 12 January. During the meeting, possible avenues of collaboration between the two societies were […]

  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 […]