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Exhibitions on the Web

Current Exhibition:
 

 
Summer exhibition in progress.
Please check back end of October, 2007.
Regular Exhibitions:
14. Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark (Traveling exhibition, originating at the Sonoma County Museum, was displayed at the Osher Map Library from February 24 to June 6, 2007.   Text and images can be viewed at www.mappingthepacificcoast.com.
 
13. The Changing Peninsula: Two Centuries of Portland Maps and City Views (originally 10/1/05 - 7/31/06, this exhibit was extended to 12/31/06)
 
12.  TREASURES III: A Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education (10/04 - 6/05)
 
11. Mapping the Republic: Conflicting Concepts of the Territory and Character of the U.S.A., 1790-1900 (5/03 - 5/04)
This exhibition explores how Americans understood and conceptualized the United States of America as a single union, and/or as separated states.

10. Exodus and Exile: The Spaces of Diaspora (1/02 - 1/03)
This exhibition uses maps from the fifteenth century to the present to explore the spatial aspects of diaspora through the experiences of the Jews and African-Americans. 

9. The American Way (2/01-12/01) 

8. Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology to Satellite Imagery (4/00-1/01) 

7. Worldly Treasures: A Fifth Anniversary Celebration (10/99-3/00) 

Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in North America 
(London, 1733)
6. Carto-Maine-ia: Puzzles and Wraps and Oddball Maps (6/99 - 8/99)

Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective (2/99 - 5/99)

5. Maps of Spain from the Enggass Collection (9/98 - 2/99)

4. Africa: A Continent Revealed (1/98 - 5/98)

3. Maine Wilderness Transformed: Timber, Sporting, and Exploitation of the Moosehead Lake Region (5/97 - 1/98)

2. Cartographic Creation of New England (11/96 - 4/97)

1. Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia of History (4/96 - 10/96)
 

Special Exhibitions:
3. The "Percy Map": The Cartographic Image of New England and Strategic Planning during the American Revolution (4/17/98) 

2. The Mitchell Map, 1755-1782: An Irony of Empire (4/21/97)

1. The Basel 1494 (illustrated) edition of Christopher Columbus's letter (10/14/96) 

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