Articles about Maps

This page offers information on the different aspects of Map collection.
Our best advice is to buy a map or two you find interesting. Try to learn about the map. Who published it how and when? What information does it contain that is interesting? Why? What is omitted? The collector would be surprised how much can be learned from this approach.

When you want to take good care of you maps and prints then you might find the following information usefull.

In the year 1138, the royal palace at Palermo, Sicily, was the scene of a long-awaited meeting between an unusual Christian king and a distinguished Muslim scholar. As his visitor entered the hall, the king rose, took his hand and led him across the carpeted marble to a place of honor beside the throne. Almost at once the two men began to discuss the project for which the scholar had been asked to come from North Africa: the creation of the first accurate—and scientific—map of the entire known world.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have been born into another home, culture, or religious system?
We’ve all probably questioned what our beliefs and values would look like through different eyes.
Below is a comparison of major worldviews in the last 2000 years.

Museums keep their storage areas at an optimum temperature of around 70 degrees F, and a relative humidity of 50%. If conditions cannot be kept to this ideal (and historic houses, for example, often are not air-conditioned), avoiding extremes, such as the very high heat in an attic, and avoiding major fluctuations, such as an unheated building that gets cold in the winter, but hot in the summer, should help from a preservation standpoint.