- January 8, 2025
- Katy Lasdow and Garrett Dash Nelson
Coming in 2025: our exhibition on the American Revolution in Boston
Our forthcoming exhibition "Terrains of Independence" examines the question of why Boston and Massachusetts became a tinderbox for Revolutionary activity
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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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- March 21, 2024
- Ian Spangler and Emily Bowe
Coming in September: Our exhibition on the rise of digital mapping
Our forthcoming exhibition, Processing Place, explores how computers and cartographers redrew the world
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- March 22, 2021
- Rachel Mead
One Year of Remote Programming
After being closed for a year, we’ve built up a wealth of online offerings for you to use anytime!
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- December 30, 2020
- Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson
Stretching the world at the end of a war
A Newsmap from December 1945 shows how cartographic projection promoted the U.S. view of itself as a global power
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- April 14, 2022
- Megan Nally
Power, paper, and PCBs: An environmental history of the Lower Neponset River
Last month, the EPA announced the addition of the Lower Neponset River to the Superfund National Priorities List—a designation that will provide federal resources for a long-awaited environmental hazard investigation and cleanup project.
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- August 2, 2022
- Ezra Acevedo
Mapping depictions of oil
From the ground to the gas pump, oil production poses serious environmental justice concerns.
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- June 3, 2022
- Rachel Sharer
LMEC Awarded Grant to Support Community History Exhibition
The Leventhal Center has been awarded a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Regional Grant to support a 2023 urban atlas exhibition.
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- April 24, 2023
- Garrett Dash Nelson and Steven Beaucher
Transiting Through History: An Interview with Steven Beaucher
Take a sneak peek at our upcoming exhibition on transit mapping through an interview with our guest curator
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