…at Vienna’s Globe Museum.
If you thought our Globe Room was impressive well you are quite right. It’s awesome. However, we think we may have some competition. Austria sees our Globe Room and has raised us a Globe Museum.
Within the Austrian National Library, the Globe Museum houses over 600 globes dating as far back as the 1500s. The museum also contains about 295,000 maps, 45,000 geographic-topographic views, 800,000 picture postcards, 100 reliefs and models of fortresses, and about 83,000 volumes of technical literature and atlases.
Maybe we should try and arrange some kind of staff summer exchange programme with them. We can talk to them about how many people come in asking to see round atlases. We’ve had a few.
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Vienna £12.99 and DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Vienna £7.99. For maps and guides on Vienna see here.