Exhibitions

The Naming of America

October 26, 1983 – February 17, 1986

National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

3rd Floor Lounge

See on Map Floor Plan

View a 1507 World map thought to be by Martin Waldseemuller, a German mapmaker, probably the first map to designate the New World continents as America, and supplemented by related materials.

On loan from a private German collector.