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2025

How can a deeper exploration of maps enhance our understanding of both their practical function and cultural significance?
3
Feb
2025
February 3, 2025

How can a deeper exploration of maps enhance our understanding of both their practical function and cultural significance?

What made eighteenth-century Boston a tinderbox for Revolutionary activity?
21
Jan
2025
January 21, 2025

What made eighteenth-century Boston a tinderbox for Revolutionary activity?

What Were Our Most Popular Maps of 2024?
8
Jan
2025
January 8, 2025

What Were Our Most Popular Maps of 2024?

2024

How does Osgood Carleton's 1795 map of Boston reveal the colonial city's changing identity?
23
Dec
2024
December 23, 2024

How does Osgood Carleton's 1795 map of Boston reveal the colonial city's changing identity?

What can a map do? Hear what 3,000 social studies teachers have to say
9
Dec
2024
December 9, 2024

What can a map do? Hear what 3,000 social studies teachers have to say

How can maps unveil the hidden stories of your family’s past?
25
Nov
2024
November 25, 2024

How can maps unveil the hidden stories of your family’s past?

Expanding New Ways to Learn at LMEC
12
Nov
2024
November 12, 2024

Expanding New Ways to Learn at LMEC

Getting to Here: How Immigration Shapes an American City
28
Oct
2024
October 28, 2024

Getting to Here: How Immigration Shapes an American City

Time Travel to Boston’s Streets 120 Years Ago…
15
Oct
2024
October 15, 2024

Time Travel to Boston’s Streets 120 Years Ago…

Picturing Climate Risk in the Style of Historic Maps
30
Sep
2024
September 30, 2024

Picturing Climate Risk in the Style of Historic Maps

Hello To The Digital Age: Processing Place Opens at LMEC
16
Sep
2024
September 16, 2024

Hello To The Digital Age: Processing Place Opens at LMEC

From Heaven & Earth to Processing Place
19
Aug
2024
August 19, 2024

From Heaven & Earth to Processing Place

Teaching (and Teachers) Abound at the LMEC
5
Aug
2024
August 5, 2024

Teaching (and Teachers) Abound at the LMEC

Tribute and Territory
22
Jul
2024
July 22, 2024

Tribute and Territory

Look at Us Grow! - Continuing to Expand Our Team
9
Jul
2024
July 9, 2024

Look at Us Grow! - Continuing to Expand Our Team

Written In The Stars
27
Jun
2024
June 27, 2024

Written In The Stars

In Conversation with the Blue Maps of China
10
Jun
2024
June 10, 2024

In Conversation with the Blue Maps of China

Seeing the World Through Historic Women Mapmakers
28
May
2024
May 28, 2024

Seeing the World Through Historic Women Mapmakers

Good Reasons to Feel Blue at the Leventhal Center
13
May
2024
May 13, 2024

Good Reasons to Feel Blue at the Leventhal Center

A Trip Through Boston’s Little Syria
29
Apr
2024
April 29, 2024

A Trip Through Boston’s Little Syria

The Final Weeks of “Getting Around Town”
15
Apr
2024
April 15, 2024

The Final Weeks of “Getting Around Town”

New Exhibit Coming Soon: Heaven & Earth
1
Apr
2024
April 1, 2024

New Exhibit Coming Soon: Heaven & Earth

Adding Weymouth, Braintree, and Quincy to Atlascope
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Mar
2024
March 18, 2024

Adding Weymouth, Braintree, and Quincy to Atlascope

Cartography Challenge Winners and New Positions at LMEC
4
Mar
2024
March 4, 2024

Cartography Challenge Winners and New Positions at LMEC

Transit Challenge Voting Has Begun!
19
Feb
2024
February 19, 2024

Transit Challenge Voting Has Begun!

Routes Ahead of Us
5
Feb
2024
February 5, 2024

Routes Ahead of Us

A peek into Heaven and Earth
22
Jan
2024
January 22, 2024

A peek into Heaven and Earth

2023

Finding Lost Subways
18
Dec
2023
December 18, 2023

Finding Lost Subways

Digging into maps and reports from the Big Dig
27
Nov
2023
November 27, 2023

Digging into maps and reports from the Big Dig

How can you archive the history of transportation?
13
Nov
2023
November 13, 2023

How can you archive the history of transportation?

New tools for geographic discovery
31
Oct
2023
October 31, 2023

New tools for geographic discovery

Exploring local history through streets & neighborhoods
17
Oct
2023
October 17, 2023

Exploring local history through streets & neighborhoods

Two new opportunities to work with the LMEC team
2
Oct
2023
October 2, 2023

Two new opportunities to work with the LMEC team

Histories of community resilience in Boston and beyond
18
Sep
2023
September 18, 2023

Histories of community resilience in Boston and beyond

It's exhibition week!
5
Sep
2023
September 5, 2023

It's exhibition week!

Saying goodbye to Building Blocks
21
Aug
2023
August 21, 2023

Saying goodbye to Building Blocks

How did maps shape citizen participation in Boston's urban renewal?
7
Aug
2023
August 7, 2023

How did maps shape citizen participation in Boston's urban renewal?

Beat the rising temps with our summer events
24
Jul
2023
July 24, 2023

Beat the rising temps with our summer events

Atlascope all around!
10
Jul
2023
July 10, 2023

Atlascope all around!

A modern twist on urban atlases
26
Jun
2023
June 26, 2023

A modern twist on urban atlases

Celebrating community voices and stories
12
Jun
2023
June 12, 2023

Celebrating community voices and stories

Start your summer with LMEC public events
30
May
2023
May 30, 2023

Start your summer with LMEC public events

Coming soon to a Massachusetts town near you
15
May
2023
May 15, 2023

Coming soon to a Massachusetts town near you

How do you get around town?
1
May
2023
May 1, 2023

How do you get around town?

From physical atlas to digital web layer
17
Apr
2023
April 17, 2023

From physical atlas to digital web layer

What makes a map readable?
3
Apr
2023
April 3, 2023

What makes a map readable?

Visualizing eras of New England's economic geography
20
Mar
2023
March 20, 2023

Visualizing eras of New England's economic geography

Sharing stories uncovered in Atlascope
6
Mar
2023
March 6, 2023

Sharing stories uncovered in Atlascope

A peek behind-the-scenes with newsworthy maps and graphs
21
Feb
2023
February 21, 2023

A peek behind-the-scenes with newsworthy maps and graphs

Spotlighting the work of our teen curators
6
Feb
2023
February 6, 2023

Spotlighting the work of our teen curators

What do maps tell us about a changing Boston?
23
Jan
2023
January 23, 2023

What do maps tell us about a changing Boston?

It's exhibition week!
9
Jan
2023
January 9, 2023

It's exhibition week!

2022

Ringing in the new year with two new exhibitions
27
Dec
2022
December 27, 2022

Ringing in the new year with two new exhibitions

Does noise pollute even when nobody’s listening?
12
Dec
2022
December 12, 2022

Does noise pollute even when nobody’s listening?

Mapping the whole week around 🌍🗓️🌏
29
Nov
2022
November 29, 2022

Mapping the whole week around 🌍🗓️🌏

Can you name all 351 Massachusetts towns?
7
Nov
2022
November 7, 2022

Can you name all 351 Massachusetts towns?

How inextricable is land use from the land itself?
24
Oct
2022
October 24, 2022

How inextricable is land use from the land itself?

What was East Boston like before Logan Airport?
11
Oct
2022
October 11, 2022

What was East Boston like before Logan Airport?

What will you learn during Climate Prep Week?
26
Sep
2022
September 26, 2022

What will you learn during Climate Prep Week?

Two new grant and fellowship programs
12
Sep
2022
September 12, 2022

Two new grant and fellowship programs

Explore original plans for early Massachusetts towns
29
Aug
2022
August 29, 2022

Explore original plans for early Massachusetts towns

Searching for Americana in pictorial maps
15
Aug
2022
August 15, 2022

Searching for Americana in pictorial maps

How are Boston's recent heat waves connected to environmental justice?
2
Aug
2022
August 2, 2022

How are Boston's recent heat waves connected to environmental justice?

Hundreds of new maps in our digital collections—which one will inspire you?
19
Jul
2022
July 19, 2022

Hundreds of new maps in our digital collections—which one will inspire you?

Spotlighting K-12 student mapping work
6
Jul
2022
July 6, 2022

Spotlighting K-12 student mapping work

What would it mean to "complete" the Emerald Necklace?
21
Jun
2022
June 21, 2022

What would it mean to "complete" the Emerald Necklace?

Learning from environmental justice and housing activism
6
Jun
2022
June 6, 2022

Learning from environmental justice and housing activism

Diving into Charles River trivia and the history of land trusts in Roxbury
20
May
2022
May 20, 2022

Diving into Charles River trivia and the history of land trusts in Roxbury

Tracing the environmental histories of highways, parks, and rivers
9
May
2022
May 9, 2022

Tracing the environmental histories of highways, parks, and rivers

We think you should keep celebrating Earth Day, so we're bringing it to your inbox.
25
Apr
2022
April 25, 2022

We think you should keep celebrating Earth Day, so we're bringing it to your inbox.

Springing into More or Less in Common
11
Apr
2022
April 11, 2022

Springing into More or Less in Common

When you imagine a map of the "environment," does it have people in it?
21
Mar
2022
March 21, 2022

When you imagine a map of the "environment," does it have people in it?