The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, an independent nonprofit institution founded in 2004, is one of the nation’s most significant centers for the public study of historical geography. The Leventhal Center stewards more than a quarter million geographic objects in the BPL’s collections, hosts exhibitions on a variety of themes, and works with students, teachers, and learners from all walks of life to explore and understand the relationship between people and places in the past, present, and future. The Center is also a leader in digital geographic projects ranging from online repositories of historic artifacts available to modern experiments with maps and data.
