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How do we know what’s true in a map?

Our new digital exhibition, Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception, looks at how maps and visual information construct the truth — or at least what the mapmaker wants you to believe is the truth.

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Upcoming Events

Kaleidoscope Metropolis: Autonomy and Integration in the Fractured City
13
Apr

Kaleidoscope Metropolis: Autonomy and Integration in the Fractured City

Mapping and Placing 18th Century Roxbury in the Atlantic World
17
Apr

Mapping and Placing 18th Century Roxbury in the Atlantic World

Boston By Map 4/21
21
Apr

Boston By Map 4/21

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Peoples of the Pacific

Peoples of the Pacific

In a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and a Covarrubias anthropological map, portrayals of ethnic diversity raise questions about images and stereotypes

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