{"id":1835803,"date":"2025-01-10T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1835803"},"modified":"2025-01-10T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:46:51","slug":"the-palazzo-vecchios-map-room-restored-and-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/the-palazzo-vecchios-map-room-restored-and-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palazzo Vecchio\u2019s Map Room, Restored and Virtual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Restoration work has been completed on the Palazzo Vecchio\u2019s Map Room (no relation); see this Popular Archaeology<\/em> article<\/a> for details and photos. In tandem with the restoration, there is now a virtual version of the Map Room<\/a> that allows you to explore the maps in a virtual facsimile of the room<\/a>. The maps can also be superimposed on the globe<\/a>. If this is all a bit too<\/em> virtual, there\u2019s also an index<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Restoration work has been completed on the Palazzo Vecchio\u2019s Map Room (no relation); see this Popular Archaeology article for details and photos. In tandem with the restoration, there is now a virtual version of the… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[92,1717,1715,454,1716,1718,937],"class_list":["post-1835803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-1500s","tag-firenze","tag-florence","tag-italy","tag-palazzo-vecchio","tag-renaissance","tag-virtual-globes","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4121,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/digital-map-restoration\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835803,"position":0},"title":"Digital Map Restoration","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 March 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"To be honest, when I think of map restoration I think of\u00a0the painstaking work of\u00a0preserving and repairing damaged old maps; the\u00a0Chimney Map is only one such example. 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