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  • Why Google Maps gets it wrong!

    The (London) Guardian had a great piece in yesterday's newspaper on the representation of Africa in early and modern maps. Give it a read!The essay, by James Wan, originally appeared in the blog Think Africa, and explores the persistent ways in ...

  • Mapmaking Contest

    ...for Junior Cartographers How to Enter Be age 14 or under! Use a piece of paper (Max Size: 11x17 inches) and whatever art medium you prefer (paint, crayons, markers, etc.) OR use a computer program. Create a map of an imaginary continent in e...

  • Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune

    March 25, 2014 ~ August 14, 2014 ... OML is pleased to present a subset of Charting an Empire, the two-part exhibition curated by Stephanie Cyr and Ronald E. Grim and originally installed in 2013 at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center of the Boston ...

  • Disembarkation

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s Judith McCarthy Robbins The RMS Sylvania Embarkation Traversing the North Atlantic Life Aboard an Ocean Liner Disemba...

  • Life Aboard an Ocean Liner

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s Judith McCarthy Robbins The RMS Sylvania Embarkation Traversing the North Atlantic Life Aboard an Ocean Liner Disemba...

  • Traversing the North Atlantic

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s Judith McCarthy Robbins The RMS Sylvania Embarkation Traversing the North Atlantic Life Aboard an Ocean Liner Disemba...

  • Embarkation

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s Judith McCarthy Robbins The RMS Sylvania Embarkation Traversing the North Atlantic Life Aboard an Ocean Liner Disemba...

  • The RMS Sylvania

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s Judith McCarthy Robbins The RMS Sylvania Embarkation Traversing the North Atlantic Life Aboard an Ocean Liner Disemba...

  • Judith McCarthy Robbins

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s Judith McCarthy Robbins The RMS Sylvania Embarkation Traversing the North Atlantic Life Aboard an Ocean Liner Disemba...

  • Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s

    Postcard of Cunard Line's "Sylvania" (between 1957 and 1968). OML Morse Collection. [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s Judith McCarthy Robbins The RMS Sy...