Globe Museum

The Globe Museum in the Palais Mollard is part of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. It is the only public museum for world globes.

History

The Globensammung the Vienna Court Library, the forerunner of the National Library, already existed in the 19th century. In 1956 the museum from these stocks and the collection of private scholars, cartographers and specialists Globe Robert Haardt and the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes was opened with 63 exhibits. Location was the Augustinian Wing of the Vienna Hofburg on Josefsplatz, as part of the Map Collection of the National Library. 1970 and 1986 the museum received new spaces within the same tract. Since the end of 2005, the Globe Museum in the Palais Mollard is housed in the Lord alley. Since 2003, the museum also has the museum label.

Collection

Most of the more than 600 terrestrial and celestial globes of the stock, 200 of which are on permanent display, date from the period before 1850. The oldest object is the terrestrial globe of Gemma R. Frisius ( 1536 ), a highlight of the collection are the globes of Vincenzo Coronelli (110 cm diameter) and a pair of globes by Gerard Mercator 1541 and 1551st Other collection objects are armillary spheres, planets, globes and instruments in which globes form a part as planetariums, tellurides and lunariums. The Globe Museum is the only institution that acquired related instruments in the globes, and the globes, researched and presented to the public.