Subject and place examples: Pictorial, Geology, California, New York City, U.S. Popular collection categories include data visualization, celestial maps, atlases, globes, school geography, maritime charts, city atlases, pocket maps, children's maps, and manuscript maps. Refresh the link to see 250 more. We invite you to get pleasurably lost.Īdvanced search allows refined inquiries for precise results, while browsing encourages serendipitous exploration, honoring the legacy of library shelves. NEW: Random Browse the collection (desktop and tablet only). Here you can see the history of cartography through primary sources from 1500 into the 21st century. The online map collection is a searchable database that allows you to make your own journeys into spatial representations of the past.

The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, the Pacific, the Arctic, and the World. The historical map collection has over 118,000 maps and related images online. Or take a virtual tour of the Map Center, which hosts events such as the recent Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography : Indigenous mapping. Visit the physical collection at the David Rumsey Map Center at the Stanford University Library.

Read the Blog to learn more about collection highlights, such as Urbano Monte's manuscript world map from 1587. Here you can explore maps through a variety of viewers. Welcome to the David Rumsey Map Collection. View High Resolution Interactive Globe View All Interactive Globes

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