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Behaim Globe

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“The Behaim Globe is a testament to an early chapter in the history of globalization that is as illuminating as it is somber, and reflects two crucial turning points in the European view of the world. When it was created in 1492, no one in Europe knew of the existence of the American continent. In…”
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BBC TravelAug 29

The museum charting how humans understand the world

Beautiful, surreal and eerily empty, Vienna's Globe Museum the only public museum on Earth dedicated to globes, and it – quite literally – tells the story of our world.

Replica shows a world without the Americas.

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