Globenmuseum
In 1956, the Austrian National Library opened the Globe Museum—Globenmuseum—in the Palais Mollard in Vienna, and it remains the world’s only public museum devoted to globes. The museum’s focus is specific: three-dimensional models of Earth and other celestial bodies, and spherical representations of the celestial sphere. That mission is rooted in an earlier collection. As early as the 19th century, the Vienna Imperial Library—the forerunner of today’s National Library—held globes acquired by purchase and gift, including two globes created by Vincenzo Coronelli for Leopold I (ruling 1658 to 1705), each marked with an engraved portrait and inscription. A turning point came in 1921, when geographer Eugen Oberhummer inventoried the collection, finding eight globes of varying sizes and two armillary spheres. …
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