Capacity: 20 people
Tour ticket is required
The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more than 200,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, wall maps, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children’s, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from around 1550 to the present. David Rumsey has donated his entire physical map collection to Stanford University where it is housed at the David Rumsey Map Center in the Stanford University Library. Stanford also archives all of Rumsey’s digital map collection in the Stanford Digital Repository. Rumsey continues to make his collection available online at www.davidrumsey.com
Explore the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University Libraries on a guided tour led by our knowledgeable staff. Enjoy an overview of the Center’s history, collections, and special exhibitions, then dive into our digital archives on large interactive touch screens. Visitors will also view a selection of rare maps from across eras and regions, showcasing an example set of treasures from the collection.
The tour will start at the Munger Rotunda, located in the Bing Wing of Stanford’s Green Library at 10:30am. No food, drinks, or pens are permitted inside the Center, but personal photography without flash is permitted. Visitors of Green Library will be preregistered for quick entry.
Visiting hours outside of the tour are:
- Wednesday 1-5pm
- Thursday 1-5pm
- Friday 9:30am-5pm