Globe Museum

The opening of the Museum, whose establishment can be traced back to the activities of Viennese globe connoisseurs, occurred in 1956. Nevertheless it can be proved that globes have been in the former Imperial Court Library as early as the 16th century. The main emphasis of the holdings is on terrestrial and celestial globes made before 1850. The Globe Museum has on loan the oldest extant terrestrial globe in Austria. Since December of 2005 the Globe Museum has been housed in the Palais Mollard in Herrengasse. It offers, as well as the valuable objects that may not be touched, the possibility of interactive contact with the materials at computer terminals and a virtual globe.