The Schulte Collection is the largest collection of historical maps of Iceland worldwide. It includes currently 187 historical maps of Iceland from 1535 to 1849 which have been donated by the German couple Prof. Dr. Karl-Werner Schulte and Dr. Gisela Schulte-Daxbök to Akureyri Museum in Northern Iceland since 2014. A selection with alternating themes is exhibited yearly from spring to autumn.
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There are mainly four categories of maps:
Iceland only / Iceland and the neighbouring Islands / Iceland and Scandinavia / Iceland in the North Atlantic.
This website describes the author(s)/publisher(s), the contents and further details (year, size and image) of every map until No. 187. The photos of the maps are listed in order of the acquisition dates, the latest comes first and the first at the end. The Schulte Collection is the largest collection of historical maps of Iceland worldwide and the only one which can be visited every year.