There's a Map for That!

 Explore the ways in which our state has been
surveyed, charted, imagined, and pictured with There’s a Map for That!, a special exhibition organized by Connecticut Explored in celebration of
the magazine’s 10th anniversary. There’s
a Map for That! explores many faces of Connecticut and the whys and ways of
mapping them with large-scale, full-color reproductions of rarely-seen historic
maps from the 18th century to the present. 

Modern
cartographers think of maps as media for transmitting information about every
kind of space and place. Like other kinds of pictures, maps select what they
show according to purpose. Most are strictly practical. But some select for
beauty as well as utility, and historic maps acquire uses their makers never
intended by showing us past objects now vanished and past vacancies now
occupied. In maps, science, art, and history all mingle.