The Map Center, Pawtucket Rhode Island

The Map Center, Pawtucket Rhode Island The oldest map store in New England and a great place to be curious. Maps, globes, atlases, books and image framing and mounting.
(1)

The oldest map store in New England, established in 1953, still serves the community with a feast for curiosity.

Join travel writer Robert Isenberg for stories from the road as he shares writings from his new book "Best Bikes Rides C...
08/04/2026

Join travel writer Robert Isenberg for stories from the road as he shares writings from his new book "Best Bikes Rides Canada." Robert is a travel writer for Lonely Planet and he's spent a lot of time on two wheels. If you like bikes, beers and books, we hope to see you tomorrow!

07/31/2026

Join me as I make a scan of the streets of Pawtucket using a and a bicycle! I'm uploading the data to Mapillary because I want everyone to have access to street view imagery that can be used by folks like the Pawtucket DPW. Usually the city would pay tons of money to a company that does sign and infrastructure inventory to make maps of where repairs need to be done, where signs are missing or pavement conditions. But why spend that kind of money when we can do it ourselves for free and while having more fun?

07/29/2026

Thank you to the Millbury Public Library Page for having me over for a fun night of map making! This is a sneak peek of what some students made during my Map for a Cat workshop.

Margaret Bailey Rosenbaum has always loved maps and she's been painting on them almost as long. "Maps from the Road" is ...
07/29/2026

Margaret Bailey Rosenbaum has always loved maps and she's been painting on them almost as long. "Maps from the Road" is a beautiful, award winning series from Margaret's 'Bright Spot Studio' in Plymouth Massachusetts and I'm thrilled that two of her pieces are going on display at The Map Center.
Come see them!

07/27/2026

Come join us at the Millbury Public Library for a free family friendly activity hosted by yours truly!
Its called A Map for a Cat and it's a fun, silly activity that has a surprising amount to teach us about how and why we use maps. You won't look at another one the same way again!
Tuesday July 28, 6PM
Millbury Public Library Page

We got another one.He's looking for swamps.
07/25/2026

We got another one.
He's looking for swamps.

*POP POP*Who said comparison is the their of joy? What if it were a wonderful, nerdy source of joy?A new beautiful book ...
07/23/2026

*POP POP*
Who said comparison is the their of joy? What if it were a wonderful, nerdy source of joy?
A new beautiful book just arrived and it's all about the relative size, speed, pressure, volume etc of all kinds of stuff in our universe. It's perfect for nerdy, curious teens.

Reminds me of my old podcast Measure for Measure!

'Magnitude' by Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke

07/20/2026

Jeffrey Linn at Conspiracy of Cartographers makes maps of a climate-changed future on top of vintage gas station road maps and explores why "just a map" is usually oil company propaganda.


Address

545 Pawtucket Avenue
Pawtucket, RI
02860

Opening Hours

Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

Telephone

+14014212184

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Map Center, Pawtucket Rhode Island posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category