An exhibition, which showcases a selection of works from the archive of Professor Sehavet Mersinoğlu, Turkey's first female cartographer, opens today at 10:30 a.m. at Istanbul Technical University's Mustafa İnan Library on its Ayazağa campus.The archive was donated to Istanbul Technical University by the Mersinoğlu family, and is composed of hand-drawn maps by Mersinoğlu, special notes and the book titled "Yerbilimi Kartografyası" (Geoscience Cartography).Professor Mersinoğlu was born in 1922 in Istanbul. Mersinoğlu, who was trained by caricaturist Cemal Nadir upon realizing her talent for drawing and painting, graduated from Istanbul University's Institute of Geography and the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University's Department of Painting. She worked as an assistant at Istanbul University's Institute of Geology between 1945 and 1947.Later on, she completed her master's studies at the University of Wisconsin as a student of famous cartographer Arthur Robinson. Mersinoğlu worked at the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA) and was assigned to the headquarters of the United Nations between 1952 and 1954, becoming the first female cartographer to work there.Mersinoğlu also learned the techniques for map publication and librarianship apart from preparing maps and atlases during her time in the U.S. In 1968, she founded the Nature History Museum within the body of the MTA and worked on putting together a national atlas of Turkey. Mersinoğlu, who produced works that shed light on Turkey's cartography, passed away in 2014 in İzmir.