Map trip to Baltimore

On Friday I went to Baltimore to enjoy the Map exposition on display at the Waters Gallery. Unfortunately, I was unable to join the class/GMU field trip. Since I couldn't go with the group, I was happy to make the trip myself.
I viewed every floor of the gallery. The fourth floor exhibit contained local maps. Most of the maps were made by local high school students about information in their neighborhood. The third floor had a large mosaic map of Europe. I saw an ancient mosaic like this one displayed in a church in the middle east a few years back. The second floor had a gallery room of photo graphs collected by the Hubble telescope. I could have stayed in this room for hours! The photographs were beautiful. However, I view the photographs as art, not map. There were more photographs from the Hubble displayed in a ballroom gallery on the third floor. The main map display is on the ground level. I enjoyed viewing some of the popular and well-known maps of modern and ancient time. The rooms were absolutely FULL of school children on Friday. A docent (who was very nice, by-the-way) told me that the map display had " really raised attendance to the museum". He seemed surprised that so many people would be interested in looking at old maps. The hand-craft skill that making these maps requires is amazing. I am so dependent on cut-n-paste and shape files, that the art of map making is a mystery to me.
Thank you for the suggestion to visit the Waters Gallery in Baltimore. I enjoyed the afternoon.

Kathleen