7th grader finds Met museum map error
Photo credit: Joanne Lerman | Benjamin Lerman Coady, of West Hartford, Conn., posing with a Metropolitan Museum of Art map in which he found errors. The curator has confirmed his discovery. His mom, Joanne Lerman, took the photo (February 2012)
A Connecticut seventh-grader says workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan didn't believe him when he pointed out an inaccuracy with a map that was on exhibit. The map purported to show the Byzantine Empire at its largest size in the 6th century, but he noticed that Spain and part of Africa were missing from the depiction.
Benjamin Lerman Coady knew he was right, because he had...
