Maps: Finding Our Place in the World November 2, 2007—January 27, 2008 From clay tablets to sea charts, from satellite navigation systems to tantalizing sketches of worlds real and imagined-maps tell us much more than how to get from where we are to where we want to be. They help us visualize the places we inhabit, see and study the unknown, understand our place in the world as it is and shape it for the future. This rare exhibition of more than 100 of the world’s greatest maps features exquisite works of art and engaging, high-tech interactive displays. Maps: Finding Our Place in the World is a once-in-a-lifetime journey through landscapes of time and space, science and imagination. You’ll see maps created by traders and navigators, by scientists like Ptolemy and Leonardo da Vinci, and by dreamers from J.R.R. Tolkien to Internet pioneers. You’ll learn how early maps were made, see how the technology changed over centuries, and discover the latest advances in digital map-making. At once historical, cultural, and futuristic, this exhibition is for anyone who has opened a map, an atlas, or a GPS program and wondered: Who made this fascinating object? How did they do it? What stories does it tell? Maps: Finding Our Place in the World is organized by The Field Museum and The Newberry Library Presented by NAVTEQ This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.