Globe Museum, Museum specializing in globes and astronomical instruments in Vienna, Austria.
The Globe Museum is a museum in Vienna that specializes in globes and astronomical instruments. The collection contains over 600 globes of different types, with about 200 displayed in the historic Palais Mollard in rotating exhibitions.
The museum was founded in 1956 as the world's first institution dedicated exclusively to globes. Its origins trace back to cartographic collections held in the imperial Vienna library during the 1800s.
The museum displays globes that cartographers and astronomers created over centuries to understand the world. You can see how ideas about our planet and the sky changed over time through these objects.
The museum is located in a palace in Vienna's inner city and is easy to reach by public transport. Plan two to three hours for a comfortable visit, especially if you want to explore the different exhibition areas.
The collection includes the 1536 globe by Gemma Frisius, one of the oldest surviving globes in the world. It shows how cartographers represented the known world almost 500 years ago.
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