RONALD E. GRIM, PHD
Cartographic Consultant
Ronald Grim has over 40 years of experience cultivating three of the nation's most prestigious map collections at the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. Ron offers expert direction and consultation for your cartographic treasures.MAP HISTORY AND PROVENANCE
Deepen your knowledge with professionally conducted geographic and cartographic research
EXHIBITION PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Develop your successful cartographic exhibition or event
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Grow your collections in the right direction
CARTOGRAPHIC AND GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
Be informed and up-to-date about the decisions you make for your collections
NOTEWORTHY EXHIBITIONS
Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America.
Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building (July-November 2003).
View this exhibitionJourneys of the Imagination: An Exhibition of World Maps and Atlases.
McKim Exhibition Gallery, Boston Public Library (April – August 2006).
View this exhibitionBoston and Beyond: A Bird’s Eye View of New England.
Changing Exhibition Gallery, Boston Public Library (January – June 2008).
View this exhibitionTorn in Two: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War.
McKim Exhibition Gallery, Boston Public Library (May – December 2011); travelled to Grolier Club, New York City (February – April 2012), Ford’s Theater, Washington, DC (December 2011-February 2012), and Osher Map Library, Portland, ME (April-August 2013).
View this exhibitionUnconventional Maps.
Leventhal Map Center Gallery, Boston Public Library (October 2011 –March 2012).
View this exhibitionAmerica Votes: Mapping the Political Landscape.
Leventhal Map Center Gallery, Boston Public Library (April – November 2012).
View this exhibitionWe Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence.
McKim Exhibition Gallery, Boston Public Library (May –November 2015); travelled to Colonial Williamsburg (March 2016-January 2017) and New-York Historical Society, New York City (November 2017-March 2018).
View this exhibitionAmerica Transformed: Mapping the Nineteenth Century.
Leventhal Map Center Gallery, Boston Public Library (May 4, 2019 – May 10, 2020).
View this exhibitionThree short videos featuring Ron created by the Choices Program at Brown University discussing how to think about and teach with maps.
Who are you and what do you do?
Reading maps: What is a map?
Reading maps: Visual design elements
Podcast featuring Ron as part of Conversations at the Washington Library at Mount Vernon (No. 149, recorded March 12, 2020).
Charting a Geographer’s Career with Ron Grim.
CONNECT WITH RON
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