Coming in 2023: Two New Exhibitions

As we move into the new year, our gallery will see an exciting new change: two exhibitions instead of one! On January 13, we’ll open the new featured exhibition Building Blocks: Boston Stories from Urban Atlases. At the same time, we’ll also open our new semi-permanent exhibition Becoming Boston: Eight Moments in the Geography of a Changing City. As always, admission to the gallery is free to all.

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In-Person: Curatorial Introduction for Building Blocks · Jan 18, 6:00pm ET

Join us on January 18 with Exhibition Curatorial Fellow Laura Lee Schmidt for an introduction of our new rotating exhibition, Building Blocks: Boston Stories from Urban Atlases, featuring a curatorial talk, Q+A session, and opportunity to explore the material on display.

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Saying Goodbye to More or Less in Common

After ten months on display and tens of thousands of visitors, it has come time to close the gallery doors on More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape and the Soft City pop-up show that’s run alongside it in December. For folks in Boston, we invite you to visit one last time up through December 28, and for those unable to visit in person, the companion digital exhibition will remain on our website for the indefinite future.

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The Dos and Don'ts of Georeferencing

Georeferencing, a process that lines up historic maps with modern base layers, is the underlying technology that makes possible many of the innovative digital projects here at the Map Center. In their latest article, Ezra Acevedo documents four important lessons they learned while georeferencing their hometown. (Hint: Never trust a river!)

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Can you help us get to $2,023 before 2023?

We’re trying to reach a goal of $2,023 in small donations before the beginning of 2023—and we’re so close! Can you help us by joining other LMEC community members and supporting our public mission before the end of the year? Take a look at the live updates and add yourself as a supporter!

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Virtual: Climate Justice Design Fellowship Showcase · Jan 11, 12pm ET

Join us for a virtual project showcase of the inaugural Climate Justice Design Fellowship of the Harvard University Climate+Data Initiative. The fellows' projects explore climate displacement, impacts of hazardous waste contamination, opportunities to build adaptive infrastructure, visions for urban futures, and other aspects of environmental justice from around the country.

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Awarded "Most Viewed" for 2022

The results are in! This 1886 map of the Imperial Federation was one of the most viewed maps in our Digital Collections this year. It glorifies the late-19th-century British Empire and was once displayed in our Journeys of the Imagination (2006) and Unconventional Maps: Exploring the Stories of Cartographic Curiosities (2011-2012) exhibitions.

Read about the map →