Challenger map – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:19:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Challenger map – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 The Challenger Map Re-Emerges; Fundraising Campaign Under Way https://www.maproomblog.com/2022/01/the-challenger-map-re-emerges-fundraising-campaign-under-way/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:19:12 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1805924 More]]> The iconic Challenger map—a 26×24-metre exaggerated relief map of British Columbia made of nearly a million pieces of jigsaw-cut plywood, is now on display at the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame as part of an exhibition on the early days of the Pacific National Exhibition, where the map was on display between 1954 and 1997. This is only for a few months; its appearance part of a fundraising campaign to restore the map.

Previously: Challenger Map Gets Reprieve; Challenger Map Update; Another Challenger Map Update; Challenger Map Back on Display, Sort Of.

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