{"id":1808238,"date":"2022-07-24T08:58:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1808238"},"modified":"2022-07-24T08:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:58:49","slug":"new-osher-exhibition-vacationland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/07\/new-osher-exhibition-vacationland\/","title":{"rendered":"New Osher Exhibition: Vacationland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vacationland: Mapping History in Maine<\/em><\/strong>, the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education<\/a>\u2019s latest exhibition, \u201clooks at tourism through the lens of travel and transportation, quite literally the mapping of tourism in Maine from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. This exhibition invites you to think about the changing landscape interventions created by and for tourists, as well as the impact such changes had on people living in Maine year round, and upon the environment.\u201d This exhibition opened on 15 June and runs until 11 October; reservations required<\/a> for social distancing reasons to visit the gallery in person. It\u2019s not yet online; the Osher usually gets an online version up a little later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vacationland: Mapping History in Maine, the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education\u2019s latest exhibition, \u201clooks at tourism through the lens of travel and transportation, quite literally the mapping of tourism in Maine… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[627],"tags":[50,129,447],"class_list":["post-1808238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-tourist-maps","tag-exhibitions","tag-maine","tag-osher","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789269,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/mapping-maine\/","url_meta":{"origin":1808238,"position":0},"title":"Mapping Maine","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 September 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677-1842, an exhibition of maps celebrating Maine\u2019s bicentennial while acknowledging the Wabanaki presence and history in the space that became Maine, opens today at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. 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