University of Southern Maine

Current Exhibition: Exhibit 15
The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture
Guest curated by Prof. Michael Robinson in collaboration with the Portland Museum of Art and the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education.
The exhibit is on view at the Portland Museum of Art
March 14 through June 21, 2009
 

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)

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)
 

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)