Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.

Boston (Mass.) Transit Commission, “Plan Showing Proposed Route of Subway, February 1895” (Boston, 1895)
Boston (Mass.) Transit Commission, “Plan Showing Proposed Route of Subway, February 1895” (Boston, 1895) © Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library

The Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the World Below, featuring 400 years of subterranean maps from their collections. These visualize volcanos, catacombs, pipelines, mines, and seabeds, ranging from 19th-century geological surveys to 21st-century sensing technology. The show follows a BPL exhibition on mapping weather and climate that similarly considered the evolution of the earth sciences through topographical art.