Map Chat - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

February 19, 2026
Laura Weinstein

Explore an Early Lithographic Map of Calcutta

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

April 6, 2021
Richard Pegg

Unique Perspectives on Kyoto

The curator of the MacLean Collection examines graphic representations of urban Japan from the Tokugawa period

January 11, 2023
Richard Pegg

Korean Yeojido Atlases

How did Korean cartography evolve in the Joseon period? Explore this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection to learn more about a fascinating collection of atlases.

July 30, 2021
Richard Pegg

Zhuang Tingfu: Cartographic Encounters and Echoes

In the late eighteenth century, an encounter between European and Chinese cartography left clues about the diffusion of geographic knowledge

November 16, 2021
Richard Pegg

A Chinese Maritime Map of the Sea and Stars

A video tour through an intriguing “pie chart” maritime diagram for a ship in the South China Sea

March 16, 2022
Mirela Altic

Rediscovering a Map of the Amazon

A 1755 map created by a German Jesuit missionary for the Portuguese Empire casts new light on early European efforts to map the Amazon River valley

May 18, 2022
Anne-Sophie Pratte

A Qing Dynasty Imperial Route Map

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

June 30, 2022
Elke Papelitzky

A Japanese Map of the World

In this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection, learn more about how Japanese mapmakers saw the world in late 18th and early 19th centuries

December 15, 2023
Amberly Yeo

A World(view) Transformed by War

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

July 30, 2023
Radu Leca

Divergent Meanings of Place in Mapping Japan: La Pérouse’s Tangential Encounter

When a French captain sailed past Japan in the late eighteenth century, a guess about toponyms set off a century of cartographic confusions