Monday, March 31, 2025 · 11:00 AM
Central Library in Copley Square — 700 Boylston St., Boston, MA
Note: This exhibition is held in the Leventhal Map and Education Gallery which is open Tuesday 11am-5pm, Wednesday 1pm-7pm, Thursday - Saturday 11am - 5pm, Sunday 1pm - 5pm. Please check their website for the most up to date hours and schedule. Maps trace out the complicated history of places, and we can use them to document geography in much the same way that we can use diaries and letters to document biography. In the eight cases of this exhibition, we follow the changing spatial forms of the place we now call Boston—from before the landscape carried that name all the way through the struggles, clashes, and dreams that continue to reshape the city today. These maps don’t merely depict facts about how the city looked at different moments in its history. Instead, they invite us to contemplate how geographic forces, both natural and human, have constructed the physical and social world around us, through large and small transformations that have transpired over many centuries. The Leventhal Map & Education Center regularly mounts exhibitions in our gallery, located in the historic McKim Building in the Boston Public Library in Copley Square. All of our exhibitions feature…