About Secret Maps: Curators’ Lunchtime Talk
Secret Maps exhibition curator Tom Harper provides an insider’s perspective on the exhibition process, from shaping its narrative to the final touches. He reveals the secrets behind the selection of maps, and how the gallery’s design and visual language have been intentionally crafted to tap into and showcase the key themes of the exhibition.
The venue will be open from 12.30.
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Tom Harper
Tom Harper is the British Library’s Lead Curator of Antiquarian Mapping.
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Tom Harper is the British Library’s Lead Curator of Antiquarian Mapping, and spends his time looking after and promoting Britain’s national historic map collection.
Tom’s publications include Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library (2018) and A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps (2014, with Tim Bryars). Tom co-curated the British Library exhibitions Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art (2010), Lines in the Ice: Seeking the Northwest Passage (2014), and led the 2016–17 exhibition Maps & the 20th Century: Drawing the Line. Tom is a director of Imago Mundi and a trustee of the J.B. Harley Research Fellowships Trust.
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