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  • Summer Map Exhibition in Portsmouth, NH

    The Portsmouth Historical Society is celebrating the 400th anniversary of Capt. John Smith's sailing down the coast of what he would later call New England with an exhibition detailing the history of the mapping of the Piscataquis Region of Maine and...

  • Scotland’s (Short-Lived) Empire

    Many European nations attempted New World colonies during the 17th century, but odds are that you have never heard of Scotland's attempt at imperialism. Unfortunately for the Scottish colonists, the colonial effort was placed in one of the harshest e...

  • 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...