Wednesday 18.6.2025

On Monday, 16 June 2025, the Map Collection welcomed a rare visitors – the Dean of the Faculty of Science of Charles University, Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Ing. Vladimír Krylov, Ph.D., and his Advisory Board.

The director of the Map Collection, PhDr. Mgr. Eva Novotná, Ph.D., gave the presentation, and also introduced the participants to the history and mission of the collection. The rarest maps, atlases and globes from our collection were exhibited, including maps inscribed on the Memory of the World UNESCO . Everyone also liked Kuchař gallery of cartography


Thank you for visiting!


Exhibited globes


Exhibited old prints and atlases 

  • Ptolemaios, K. Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, emaculatus cum tabulis veteribus ac novis. Argentorati: Ioannes Scotus, 1520.
  • Münster, S. a Z. J. z Puchova. MDLIIII. Kozmograffia Cž[eská]: To gest wypsánij, o položenij Krag[in neb Zemij] y Obyčegijch Národuow wsseho [Swieta,] a Hystorygij podlé Počtu Leth naněm zběhlých, [prwé nikdá] tak pospolku w žádném Jazyku newidaná. W Praze: Jan Kosořsky z Skosoře, 1554.
  • Münster, S. Cosmographey. Oder beschreib[ung] Aller Länder, herzschaf[ften] und fürnembsten Stetten des [gantzen] Erdbodens, Sampt jhren Gelegenheiten, Eyg[enschafften,] Religion, Gebreüchen, Geschichten vnnd Handthierungen, etc. Basel: in der Officin Henricpetrina, 1578.
  • Ortelius, A. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum opus nunc denuo ab ipso auctore recognitum, multisquè locis castigatum, & quamplurimis nouis tabulis atquè commentariis auctum. Antverpiæ: Abraham Ortelius, 1592.
  • Keere, P. van den. PETRI KAERII GERMANIA INFERIOR... Amstelodami: impensis Pet. Kaerii, 1617.
  • Cellarius, A. HARMONIA MACROCOSMICA SEV ATLAS UNIVERSALIS ET NOVUS, TOTIUS UNIVERSI CREATI COSMOGRAPHIAM GENERALEM, ET NOVAM EXHIBENS... Amstelodami: apud Petrum Schenk & Gerardum Valk, 1708.

Exhibited maps