David Rumsey Map Center

07/11/2022

Competition Deadline in One week!

The California Map Society (CMS) is a founding friend of the David Rumsey Map Center (DRMC), and as partners we sponsor an annual award for outstanding student scholarship. In the past we have recognized essays where maps have been used as an integral part of the research; this year for the first ti...

07/01/2022

Help us get out the word about our first ever student exhibition competition! This is a unique opportunity for a graduate or undergraduate student in the Western US to curate an exhibition of maps on their topic of choice here in the David Rumsey Map Center. Winner will collaborate with our staff to fully develop the exhibition concept. Deadline for applications extended to July 18.

To apply please see link in comments.

06/12/2022

This too is a map. Can you guess what this is a map of?

02/26/2022

Yesterday was clearly big map day! Giant, long, maps of China and Japan. Links to the maps in the comments.

12/26/2021

From yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle!

The map center is a cross between a library and a laboratory, replete with leather-bound...

11/11/2021

Nainoa Thompson, native Hawai'ian navigator, and the President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society to speak, a week from today.

November 18, 2021, 2:45 PM. Zoom.

10/05/2021

Looking forward to Reece Jones in conversation with Sonia Shaw on his book "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" next Tuesday, Oct 12, 2021. Free, to register, link in first comment.

09/30/2021

The countdown has begun! The conference begins in 3 weeks. Type in address on the poster, or click on the link in the first comment.

09/28/2021

It’s wonderful to have classes at the center again. Alberto Diaz-Cayeros teaching “Mapping Poverty, Colonialism and Nation Building in Latin America.”

06/21/2021

Join us Friday at 2.45 pm PST for Anton Thomas, talking about his new Wild World Map!

Register here: https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w67Fp-GjTg6WAZRzVp76-w

06/21/2021

Stark reality of Californian drought from space

04/01/2021