Built in 1935, based upon the Rand McNally political maps published the previous year, the Mapparium is a three-story tall glass globe that you can walk through.
The dome, composed of 608 stained glass panels produced by the Rambusch Company of New York, was designed so that visitors could examine a model of the Earth without the distortion of perspective that accompanies looking at a globe's exterior.
It opened to the public on June 1, 1935.
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