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 […]

The Geography Department, in collaboration with Malta Map Society and Heritage Malta, organised a map viewing session for Dr Alexander Kent, to showcase highlights of the Albert Ganado Malta Map Collection at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta. The map viewing session offered interesting opportunities of discussion and exchanges on some of the finest […]

On 7 April 2015, Dr Ganado received a courtesy visit from Mr & Mrs Paul de Candt who is a member of the Brussels Map Circle. An engineer by profession, he runs the company ‘Aquaterra’ which specialises in the scanning, geo-referencing and digitising of old maps. During the meeting at his house, they were shown […]