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At the end of 2023, we asked our supporters to help us out with a creative and collaborative map project: renaming Boston's subway stations.

Learn more about our upcoming exhibition, Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China, through an interview with the guest curator

Our gallery will see an exciting new change in 2023

Check out these highlights from last week’s From The Vault: Winter Travel and Tourism

See how the Qing Empire’s mapping of world geography changed during and after the imposition of European power in the Opium Wars

Discover how Boylston Street has changed over time with this selection of documents shown at our October 27 “From the Vault”

Using the Allmaps platform, we’re making it easier for anyone with to get started georeferencing maps in the Leventhal Center’s collections

Check out these highlights from last week’s From The Vault: Hispanic Heritage Month

Check out these highlights from last week’s edition of From The Vault: Global Transit

How San Francisco's Chinatown community used infrastructure as a conduit for identity, empowerment, and resilience