Want to see the original plans for every town in MA?

LMEC Curator Garrett Dash Nelson took a spin through two new digital collections from the Massachusetts Archives that capture the micro-scaled geographies of Massachusetts towns in the Early Republic period. You can explore these 1794–1795 town plans in our digital collections, which is built on Digital Commonwealth, the Massachusetts-wide federation of historic collections.

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Map of the Month Club

Want to receive a map from our collections every month? Anyone who sets up a monthly recurring donation of $12 or more will become part of our Map of the Month Club and receive monthly printed post cards. And one lucky member, chosen at random, will receive a full-size reproduction of the map on archival-quality paper!

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How big is the world's largest atlas?

Attendees at GeoCart2022, the annual conference of the New Zealand Cartographic Society, were treated to a viewing of the largest atlas in the world. Standing at 6 ft × 4.5 ft, Earth Platinum is held by the National Library of New Zealand and we were able to peek at the pages through a tweet from geographer and cartographer Kenneth Field.

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We've got new hours for Fall 2022!

We’re bringing back Sunday hours! To keep up with the weekend traffic, we’re opening our gallery and Learning Center on Sunday afternoons from 1 pm – 5pm beginning on September 10. With this change, we’ll be closing on Mondays. (We’ll still welcome school and group visits for bookings on Mondays, as well as research visits by appointment.)

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Walls looking a little bare?

College students, don’t let your dorm look this sad. Make our maps part of your back-to-school decor! If you place your order for in-gallery pickup, use the code DORM-DECOR for 50% off all reproductions in our store, now through September 9.

And teachers, we didn’t forget about you! We’re taking requests for low-cost and free reproductions of digitized maps in our collection for organizations that plan to display the reproductions in a public or classroom setting.

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