Kuchař's Gallery of Cartography
- Author: Eva Novotná
- Cartometric analysis: Tomáš Bayer, Oldřiška Sedláčková
- Cooperated: Jaroslav Michal
- Translation: Lucie Lukavská, Jan Kalivoda
- Realisation: Tomáš Roháček, Ondřej Kulha
- Opening: 21st March 2013
The Kuchař Gallery of Cartography presents key works from the collection and introduces the main European schools of cartography. Visitors will see the oldest maps of the Czech lands by S. Münster, globes of Jan Felkl manufactory, maps by N. Claudianus, J. A. Comenius, J. B. Homann, H. Hondius, A. Ortelius, G. M. Seutter, P. Mortier, G. Delisle, G. of Tilbury, and P. J. Šafařík. Digital presentations offer a cross-section of Map Collection treasures, looks at the oldest digitized globes, and a video about the contest for georeferencing old maps.
At the opening of the Map collection, the Gallery of Cartography was made available, bearing the name of an important representative of historical cartography and longtime director of the collection. The gallery maps the basic work of fund collection and also major cartographic approaches and schools. He was also ready overview of the history of cartography. Some old maps were analyzed using advanced cartometric methods that allow backward reconstruction of their cartographic parameters, for example, used cartographic display. On the panel, visitors can compare the contents of current and historical maps highlighting places geographically.
The gallery can be visited during individual or group excursions of the Map Collection.
You can find more about Karel Kuchař here.