Charting the Land of Flowers: 500 Years of Florida Maps

One of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Florida cartography ever presented, Charting the Land of Flowers traced six centuries of Florida history, bringing together maps from museum and library collections around the world, many of which were on view to the public for the first time. The exhibit offered viewers an opportunity to see the world as early European explorers saw it and to see the peninsula that would become one of the South’s most populous states evolve before their eyes. Together with atlases, city maps, nautical charts, and satellite images, the maps charted 500 years of exploration, settlement, and growth in The Land of Flowers.