Globenmuseum

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  • Address
    North Of Hofburg, Herrengasse 9, 1st fl, 1st District, Innere Stadt
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    534 10 710
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  • Transport
    underground rail: U3 Herrengasse
bus: 2A, 3A

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Part of the Nationalbibliothek (National Library) collection of museums is this small museum dedicated to cartography. Among the plethora of 19th-century globes and maps in the collection are a couple of gems a few centuries older. Look for the globe made for Emperor Karl V by Mercator in 1541 and a map of the world produced in 1551, also for him.

The often-missed Esperanto Museum, devoted to the artificial language created by Dr Ludvik Zamenhof back in 1887, is also part of the library. The first book in Esperanto, written by Dr Zamenhof himself, is displayed in the museum.

Both are located in Palais Mollard, one of many palaces on Herrengasse.