#globe museum

[daughterofchaos]

Globenmuseum (Globe Museum) in Vienna, Austria

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[1suitcase]

A 1-hour train delivered me from Bratislava, Slovakia to Vienna, Austria.

Next door to Vienna’s Esperanto Museum is its unique Globe Museum, containing many globes, some of them hundreds of years old, and assembled from several major collections.  

When I was 7 years old Santa Claus traveled by sleigh and reindeer from the North Pole  to gift me my first globe.   My life was forever improved, forever changed.  This visit to the Globe Museum was a delight for someone about to begin his 5th year traveling the planet -- or someone recalling that long ago Christmas.

Here, the fourth of four publications featuring the globes of Vienna’s Globe Museum.

(Click on any image to enlarge.)

[1suitcase]

A 1-hour train delivered me from Bratislava, Slovakia to Vienna, Austria.

Next door to Vienna’s Esperanto Museum is its unique Globe Museum, containing many globes, some of them hundreds of years old, and assembled from several major collections.  

When I was 7 years old Santa Claus traveled by sleigh and reindeer from the North Pole  to gift me my first globe.   My life was forever improved, forever changed.  This visit to the Globe Museum was a delight for someone about to begin his 5th year traveling the planet -- or someone recalling that long ago Christmas.

Here, the third of four publications featuring the globes of Vienna’s Globe Museum.

(Click on any image to enlarge.)

[waltertravels]

And yet it moves. (Galileo Galilei)

Object captured at the Globe Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Sep. 28, 2014

[warandpussy]

the globe museum changed my life

[atlasobscura]

The world’s only public museum dedicated solely to globes contains an astonishing collection. (The Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, also has an extensive globe collection.) There are folding fabric globes (which were inflated with a bellows), giant man-sized globes, and tiny plum-sized globes, each exquisitely made with dark wood, fine lines, and rich colors.

Some of the most interesting items in the museum are the brass tellurions. A tellurion is a mechanical demonstration of the earth's movement about its axes, consisting of a long arm at the end of which is a small rotating globe with a moon spinning around it. At the other end of the arm is a charmingly simple sun: a candle and a brass reflecting disc. With a turn of the crank, the system comes alive. As the earth and moon spin, the tellurion shows seasons, eclipses, tides, precessions of the equinox, and other astronomical phenomena.

Fun fact: most globes were originally sold in pairs, with a celestial accompanying Earth's model!