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

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

pantufla_milagrosa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:34:10 -0800

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.

By: zippy

zippy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:34:18 -0800

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.

By: pantufla_milagrosa

pantufla_milagrosa — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:03:19 -0800

Thanks. It's looking tough :)