The Map Department at the Austrian National Library is one of the leading institutions of its kind in the world and an El Dorado for researchers, students and anyone interested in geography or simply suffering from wanderlust.
It consists of about 300,000 sheet maps, 45,000 topographic views, around 800,000 picture postcards, more than 820 globes, 100 geographical reliefs and models of castles and about 85,000 volumes of specialist literature and atlases.
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