Source: State Library of NSW
For the first time, visitors to the State Library can explore five centuries of cartography from around the world in one place with the opening of the new Map Rooms.
Across two beautiful rooms visitors will find some of the most important maps, globes and navigation instruments from the Library’s maps collection – arguably the most significant in Australia.
According to State Librarian John Vallance: “The Map Rooms have been designed for everyone, but we hope they will also encourage specialist cartographic research.”
One of the major highlights is a chart of the Indian Ocean and Asia one of only four copies in the world printed on vellum by Jacob Colom in 1633.