The digital map collection of the University of Utrecht Library offers you the possibility to familiarize yourself with the university's wealth of historical maps. The University of Utrecht possesses a large collection of maps and atlases, a significant portion of which are located in the map room of the Faculty of Geosciences in the University Library (approx. 130.000 maps and 5.000 atlases).In addition, the map room of the Geosciences Library has a collection of geology and pedology maps (approx. 150 map series and 16.000 map sheets). On this website you will find the highlights from these collections in digital format, which allows them to be viewed at a closer range. Some of these collections are thoroughly annotated and provided with scientific explanations.
You will find a variety of maps from the 16th to the 19th centuries: world maps, sea maps, and maps of the Netherlands. There are also a number of "special cartographical manifestations", for example, a combination of a map with a diagram that can be used to compare the lengths of rivers.