- June 2, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Map Monsters, Ahoy
Featuring a few of the creatures from the depths of our collections
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- May 28, 2021
- Belle Lipton
Get to Know Your Data: The Center for Housing Data
We spoke with the Massachusetts Housing Partnership about public access to housing data
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- May 18, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Roll the tape with Moviemaps
Our new video interactive takes you on a tour of historic objects that you can control yourself
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- May 13, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Neighbors in name only
A new interactive shows inequalities across borders in Massachusetts
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- May 10, 2021
- Rachel Mead
An Atlascope tour of Newton
Highlights from exploring Atlascope at our Newton By Map event
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- May 6, 2021
- Alicia Svenson, Danielle Rose, and Garrett Dash Nelson
Studying the Bending Lines exhibition in New England Museums Now
A writeup about a study of our digital exhibition appears in the Spring 2021 edition of the New England Museum Association’s journal
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- April 29, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Riding along the mail route map
Our map bot found some treasure buried at the post office
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- April 27, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Sizing up the map with Insizeor
Our new scale-comparison tool lets you compare big, small, and in between
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- April 22, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them—on Atlascope
Our Atlascope tool makes the perfect digital companion to a new book on Boston's oldest buildings from the City Archaeologist
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