Event Description

Step inside our Maps & Memories Cartography Corner and explore 200 years of mapping, memory, and place.

From 1pm to 5:30pm, drop in to:

• Mountain Memories – Take part in our postcard project by recalling a day spent on Divis or a favourite walk in the Mournes and add it to our Memory Maps
• Discover Mapping History – Explore our exhibition on the Ordnance Survey’s first detailed mapping of Ireland, carried out 200 years ago.
  
• Hunt for Benchmarks – Pick up a map and head off in search of the carved survey marks left behind by early cartographers on buildings around the city centre.
• Map Mingle from 1pm to 2pm –  Calling all map enthusiasts! Bring your favourite map (B.Y.O.M.) and join us for a relaxed social hour celebrating the history and heritage of mapping in Ireland. Map Mingles are friendly drop-in events open to anyone with a love of maps.

Cartography Corner is part of Maps & Memories, a two-year community heritage project marking 200 years since Ireland’s first detailed Ordnance Survey.
This project is a collaboration between NI Science Festival, Ordnance Survey NI, the National Trust, Historic Environment Division, and Queen’s University Belfast.