How can one visit the David Rumsey Map Collection to see the maps in person?
June 11, 2009 10:34 PM   Subscribe

How can one visit the David Rumsey Map Collection to see the maps in person?

A friend of mine, a self-made expert on computational conformal mapping and cartographical curiosa, is in town (= SF) until Sunday and he would love love love to visit it. However, the web site (http://www.davidrumsey.com/) has no indication of whether this is possible (Second Life doesn't count), so it looks like it might not be open to the general public.

Any ideas? If someone knows a back channel it would be awesome. Thanks.
posted by pantufla_milagrosa to Society & Culture (2 answers total)
 
Best answer: It's a private collection. You could try contacting David Rumsey. NASA lists his contact info.

He and Stanford University announced in February that he will donate his map collection to the Stanford University Library, but of the 150k maps in the collection, only 20 had been transferred to the university at the time of the announcement.

You can contact the Stanford University Library and ask about the collection and access.
posted by zippy at 11:34 PM on June 11, 2009


Response by poster: Thanks. It's looking tough :)
posted by pantufla_milagrosa at 7:03 PM on June 14, 2009


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