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 […]

The AGM was held on Saturday, 28 February 2015 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pardo Hall, Merchants Street, Valletta at 10.30 a.m. This was a special AGM as it launched the year in which the Malta Map Society celebrated its  5th anniversary since its foundation. The President and the Committee would like to thank […]

                    The filmshow entitled ‘My Dear Friend and Map Engraver’ which the Malta Map Society organised on Wednesday 26 November 2014 at St James Cavalier in Valletta was a very successful event generated a lot of interest and was extremely well attended also by students from […]

On Friday 19 September at 10.30 am, two world-renowned antique map collectors met at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, Malta’s capital. They were 90 year old Dr. Albert Ganado, whose Malta map collection was exchanged with the Malta Government for his 1571 house, and 80 year old Glen McLaughlin, whose collection of […]

Dr. Albert Ganado, our President, pictured at his special birthday party held on March 8th 2014 at the residence of his daughter Rita, after the Annual General Meeting of the Malta Map Society.

  Lt Cdr John Blake gave a public lecture entitled Here be Monsters: How the Sea Chart and Navigational Maps shaped our World in the Music Hall at St James Cavalier on Monday 2 October 2013 at 6.30 p.m.

Dr Albert Ganado, Joseph Schirò and Claude Micallef Attard present a copy of the catalogue The Brocktorff Mapmakers to H.E. the President Dr George Abela at San Anton Palace on 5th April, 2013.

H.E. President Emeritus Dr Ugo Mifsud Bonnici officially opens ‘The Brocktorff Mapmakers’ exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta on Friday 30th November 2012.  

  Dr Nick Kanas, member of the Washington Map Society and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, delivers a lecture on Celestial Cartography from Ancient to Modern Times at St James Cavalier Valletta on Monday 8th October 2012.