Interactive

Zoom into the details of Jean-Baptiste Tassin's 1832 city map

A new map visualization invites you to look at patterns in the landscape as seen from above

Why tax assessments are actually interesting

Transforming our panoramic views into virtual reality offers an opportunity to jump inside the map’s perspective

Our new scale-comparison tool lets you compare big, small, and in between

A new interactive shows inequalities across borders in Massachusetts

Our new video interactive takes you on a tour of historic objects that you can control yourself

An interactive tour through East Boston, circa 1880

Travel alongside the Qianlong Emperor in this interactive tour of a map nearly twenty feet long

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