Amsterdam Map Fair is a leading fair for anyone who loves maps. With years of experience in organizing events, we bring enthusiasts and collectors together. Our fair offers a wide range of maps, workshops, and networking opportunities.

We hope to convey our love for old maps to the visitor

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The second Amsterdam Map Fair will be held at the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam on Saturday, September 6, 2025.
At this fair, 34 national and international antique dealers will offer antique sea charts, maps, atlases, globes and prints.
The participating antique dealers come from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany,  Italy, and America 

Amsterdam Map Fair
                                             Het Scheepvaartmuseum                                                 Kattenburgerplein 1, 1018AA Amsterdam
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Opening hours: 10:00 - 17:00
Site: www.adammapfair.com
 

Email: info@adammapfair.com
Tel.: Willy Schmidt +31 (0)6 28950074
 

- 34 national and international dealers
- Free valuation of your atlases, maps and globes
- Lectures by well-known speakers.
- Visiting the fair is free. Visitors to the fair have free access to Het Scheepvaartmuseum during the fair hours.
- Prior to the fair, there is a virtual exhibition of old prints of Amsterdam. (map-fair.com/amsterdam/expo)

Map production started at the end of the 15th century in Italy and then in Antwerp. Dutch mapmakers such as Willem and Joan Blaeu, Henricus Hondius, Johannes Janssonius, Frederik de Wit, Nicolas Visscher and many others determined how people saw the world in the 17th century.
The fair also features more recent maps. Maps have influenced the course of world history.
Maps were used to settle a conflict, during a battle, for the construction of a road or canal, on an important shipping route and as a propaganda tool.

The Dutch publishers from the Golden Age sold their atlases, globes and maps worldwide at the time. Over the past 100 years, many atlases and maps have been bought by foreign traders and maps have disappeared from the Netherlands.

 34 foreign traders will be present at this fair and Dutch collectors, museums and private individuals will have the opportunity to buy these products back and ultimately keep them for the Netherlands.

Program and Lectures
 

• 10.00hr - Opening of the fair 
• 11:00hr Hans D. Kok, former chairman of the International Map Society in London (IMCoS) 'Mappy Days" are here again!   A long-time collector clarifies items that will probably feature on your maps, but may have gone unnoticed, lacking relevant background information
• 13:00hr Reinder Storm Curator Cartografie collection at  Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam.   The lecture is about his new book :"Stad van water en licht "    Amsterdam, een geschiedenis in kaarten .https://singeluitgeverijen.nl/athenaeum/boek/stad-van-water-en-licht/
• 14:00hr Truusje Goedings is an art historian and author of the book "Afsetters en meester-afsetters" about THE WORK OF A WOMAN COLORIST & THE ATLAS VAN LOON (Scheepvaartmuseum). FACTS & IDEAS.
• 16:00hr  Santiago De Castillo, Master in Militairy History,  About  'How old maps found old Shipwrecks '
• 17:00hr- Closure of the fair  
   
   

If you need more information, you can always contact
Willy Schmidt from Adam Old Prints - tel +31 (0)6 28950074 - email: info@adammapfair.com