Exhibitions on the History of Cartography
Chicago Looking South Over Lagoons. Case W 999.182 Burnham, plt. 5.
The center occasionally organizes cartographic exhibits at the Newberry or in collaboration with other cultural institutions to bring the library’s cartographic collections to new and diverse audiences. View the digital version of the center’s most recent exhibition project, Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham’s Vision of an American Metropolis, which was developed in collaboration with the Burnham Plan Centennial.
Other recent exhibits include:
Ptolemy’s Geography and Renaissance Mapmakers
Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West
Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, developed in collaboration with the Field Museum
Cartographic Treasures of the Newberry Library
Learn more about other Exhibitions at the Newberry.