Events: detail
Elizabethan Sea Charts and Maps (Behind the scenes)
- Hosted by:
- National Maritime Museum
- Speaker:
- None listed
- Starts:
- April 24, 2008 at 04:00 pm
- Ends:
- April 24, 2008 at 05:45 pm
- Location:
- National Maritime Museum, Queen's House, Royal Observatory, Romney Road, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
This session offers a private viewing of some of the Museum’s most fascinating and decorative cartographic treasures.
The items specially brought together for this event show how, at this period of English imperial ambition, cartography encouraged exploration and aided navigation. Charts were used not only for planning voyages and naval operations but also for celebrating them. See for yourself maps identical to those that inspired Queen Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare and Sir Francis Drake more than 500 years ago.
With Gillian Hutchinson, Curator of the History of Cartography, National Maritime Museum and
Brian Thynne, Curator of Hydrography, National Maritime Museum.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- No
Additional information
£25/£20
Contact Bookings: 020 8312 8560 or email: bookings@nmm.ac.uk
For more information
- Contact person:
- National Maritime Museum
- Phone:
- 020 8312 8560
- Email:
- bookings [ at ] nmm.ac.uk
- Website:
- Elizabethan Sea Charts and Maps (Behind the scenes)
