March 26, 2015 ~ October 22, 2015 ... This exhibition recognizes and celebrates the long overlooked role of women in the world of mapping; bringing their stories, accomplishments, and most importantly their maps to light. Curated by Alice Hudson, for...
October 16, 2014 ~ February 26, 2015 ... Hand-drawn maps are works of art, both in the modern sense of aesthetic design and in the older sense of craft and skill. Also known as manuscripts ~ from the Latin for written (script) by hand (manu) ~ hand-d...
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 ...
September 24, 2013 ~ February 27, 2014 ... OML is pleased to present To the Ends of the Earth... and Back: Selections from the Jay I. Kislak Polar Collection, an exhibition curated by Arthur Dunkleman, Director of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation, Miami ...
April 2, 2013 to August 24, 2013 ... OML is pleased to present, as part of the 2013 Maine Civil War Trail, a subset of the exhibition of the same name, curated by Dr. Ronald E. Grim and originally installed in 2011 at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Ce...
September 11, 2012 ~ February 28, 2013 ... Highlights from the Fondersmith Collection of Cartographic Ephemera John Fondersmith, guest curator The symbolic use in modern American culture of the outline map of the United States of America is so wi...
October 4, 2011 ~ April 28, 2012 ... This exhibition commemorates the 400th anniversary of the publication in 1611 of Coryat’s Crudities, Thomas Coryat’s account of a five-month journey across Europe. A poor parson’s son, Coryat demonstrated th...
October 18, 2009 ~ August 21, 2010 ... American Treasures celebrates the reopening of the newly renovated and expanded Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine. It explores the library’s rich...
March 8, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 ... Edward V. Thompson, Guest CuratorPrinted Maps of the District and State of Maine, 1793-1860, celebrates Edward V. Thompson’s recent publication of the same title (published by the Nimue Books & Prints in Ba...
May 15, 2012 ~ August 23, 2012 ... The Triumph of the Passenger Ship presents the experience of life aboard these grand vessels through a selection of the Morse Collection of ocean liner ephemera. Norman H. Morse assembled his collection of almost 3,...
