{"id":1844764,"date":"2025-07-22T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1844764"},"modified":"2025-07-22T22:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:23:36","slug":"the-world-turned-upside-down-and-other-globes-a-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/07\/the-world-turned-upside-down-and-other-globes-a-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Turned Upside Down and Other Globes: A Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Geoff Henson (Flickr<\/a>). Creative Commons BY-ND licence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mark Wallinger\u2019s World Turned Upside Down<\/a><\/em>, a 13-foot globe on the LSE<\/abbr> campus with the South Pole on top, generated controversy (and vandalism) after its unveiling in 2019 for how it handled contested borders: it shows Lhasa as a capital, Taiwan as a separate country, and omitted Palestine. I mean, it\u2019s on a university campus: controversy about such things was inevitable. Via Mappery<\/a>; more at Atlas Obscura<\/a><\/em> and Brilliant Maps<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mappery also points to a 19th-century globular clock<\/a> that shows the sun\u2019s position at noon on the globe, which I find awfully intriguing, which is to say I want one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Library of Congress is changing how it stores its rare globes<\/a>, replacing acrylic vitrines (heavy, bulky, and potentially off-gassing compounds that put the globes at risk) with archival cardboard cases, which are less sexy but more practical\u2014we\u2019re talking about storage, not display. I\u2019m actually surprised that rare globes had essentially been stored in display cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Wallinger\u2019s World Turned Upside Down, a 13-foot globe on the LSE campus with the South Pole on top, generated controversy (and vandalism) after its unveiling in 2019 for how it handled contested borders: it… 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":[{"did":"did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo","date":"2025-07-22T14:52:23+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lukqyqyk322g","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lukqyqyk322g\",\"cid\":\"bafyreie2isei6oue32ubproaargzq6ifhlr63cox462bgvzsclyk6f4cei\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreihuxu3sl2cqekrxqr7ify3pkycvi7bxwtwwy6recsd7diqc7k2tse\",\"rev\":\"3lukqyqyvs22g\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49],"tags":[372,406,26,48,1326,1744],"class_list":["post-1844764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-art","tag-big-maps","tag-border-disputes","tag-globes","tag-libraries","tag-map-preservation","tag-upside-down-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5733,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/11\/meridian-old-maps-virtual-globes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844764,"position":0},"title":"Meridian: Old Maps, Virtual Globes","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 November 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Meridian, an \"experiment\" from the DX Lab at the State Library of New South Wales, overlays old maps onto virtual, 3D interactive globes. 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