Physical maps might feel out of date in our smartphone and GPS age but maps aren’t just for navigation. They are windows into history, culture and how we perceive the world. We visit a map library in ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but... From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine ...

PORTLAND, Maine — For many of us, GPS has been a game changer - a tap, a voice, a turn-by-turn path, will get you there. But there is something special about a physical map that the GPS in your car or ...

The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1575, by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) is often considered the world’s first atlas. The library has two copies. (Greta Rybus | for NPR) PORTLAND, Maine — For many of us, ...

Jim Thomas, 92, a retired NASA rocket propulsion engineer and Anniston native, looks over maps from his lifelong collection now housed in the Alabama Room at the Public Library of Anniston and Calhoun ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” archaeological finds of all time. Almost everything we know about the Assyrian ...

The Ancient Greek mapmakers were among the earliest thinkers to conceive of the world as a coherent whole, turning centuries of myth, seafaring knowledge, and emerging science into actual ...

Opening date for Omaha Public Library’s Central Library at 72nd and Dodge Streets announced For months, the tens of thousands of motorists who pass the intersection of Omaha’s 72nd and Dodge Streets ...

The show itself features works by 35 artists, placed around the Central Library’s Grand Lobby. Films by Asad Raza and Ilana Harris-Babou play, while Be Oakley / GenderFail Press present An incessant ...