Thursday, after a $5 million restoration, the largest map collection in any public library in the world will reopen in its Beaux-Arts jewelry box at the New York Public Library, a room noted for its spectacular corner view of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.
The meticulous reconstruction was intended to return the soaring 7,000-square-foot space to the original 1911 intention of its architects, John Merven Carr’re and Thomas Hastings. But it is also marrying the collection’s priceless maps – including many classics from the age of exploration – to new mapping resources of the digital age. NY Times Has More
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