From Academieland to Zelda: Fictional Map Exhibition at Harvard

From Academieland to Zelda: Mapping the Fictional and Imaginary, an exhibition of fictional maps at Harvard University’s Pusey Library, runs until 3 November 2023. The Harvard Gazette (the university’s official press outlet) has a writeup. “Calling the exhibition ‘kind of a mishmash,’ curator Bonnie Burns, head of geospatial resources at the Harvard Map Collection, said that ‘within the exhibit you have maps that are kind of theoretical, like nursery rhymes and Fairyland maps. And then there’s a big chunk of maps of literature—Middle Earth to Narnia.’” Many familiar maps, old and new, in this exhibition, at least for those of us who’ve been studying this field.