Portuguese cartography expo

Tue, 13 Jun 2000, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA (JP): The Embassy of Portugal, in cooperation with the
Jakarta Historical Museum, will hold an exhibition of ancient
Portuguese nautical cartography next Thursday, the embassy
announced on Saturday.

The six-week exhibition, titled Cartography of the West-East
Encounter, will feature over 150 facsimile images of nautical
charts and figures related to Portuguese voyages in the Asia-
Pacific region during the 16th and 17th centuries.

The exhibition, which will be open to the public at the
Jakarta Historical Museum on Jl. Taman Fatahillah No. 1 in West
Jakarta, is cosponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Portugal and the Fundaca Oriente, a Lisbon-based Portuguese
cultural and welfare foundation. (imn)

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