Mapping Marblehead: From Founding to Freedom
Marblehead Historic Commission
Old Town House, Marblehead, MA

Opened in June 2019, “Mapping Marblehead: From Founding to Freedom” was the first of three temporary installations featuring the history of the town and its maps. Each exhibit, focusing on successive centuries, is to be presented one year apart.

The first installation featured Marblehead’s first 200 years, as told on four, 8-foot display towers as well as a large printed floor graphic based on a 1795 map of the town. A highly popular engagement piece was a life-size rendering of the painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” by Emanuel Leutze, which allowed visitors to be photographed in the boat with General George Washington and his crew of Marbleheaders.

Digital interactives allowed visitors to inspect old maps overlaying modern maps, providing a then-and-now comparison of old Marblehead with the present-day town.

Project scope:
Exhibit design
Graphic design and graphic production
Graphic fabrication and installation
Project management