Map of the Day

Antique maps, every morning

Discover a different **historical map** on your TRMNL every morning, drawn from the vast map collection of the **Library of Congress**. From 15th-century world maps and old sea charts to railway maps, military plans, city plans, and bird’s-eye views of growing American towns, each day brings a different glimpse into how people once mapped the world around them. Use it as a daily map discovery or a window into cartographic history. The collection contains more than 5,000 maps spanning centuries of history, with the oldest examples dating back to around 1450. Choose the types of maps and historical periods you want to explore, such as 18th-century city plans, 19th-century bird’s-eye views, or nautical charts. You can also leave the filters empty and let the collection surprise you. Each map includes its title, creator, and place of publication. One map stays on your TRMNL for the whole day, giving you plenty of time to explore the details before tomorrow brings a new one.

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A new historical map on your TRMNL every morning, straight from the Library of Congress.

Bird's-eye views of American towns drawn when they were still half prairie, sea charts engraved for the Royal Navy, railway lines pushing west, battle plans sketched in the field, and world maps from before anyone had seen the whole world. Over five thousand of them, the oldest from 1450!

Choose the kinds of map you like and the centuries you like — city plans from the 1700s, bird's-eye views from the 1890s, sea charts from any of them — and your screen works its way through them, one a day, without repeating for years. Or choose nothing at all and let the whole collection surprise you.

Every map arrives with its title, its maker, and where it was printed. The same one stays with you all day, so there is time to keep looking at it.

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