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The museum houses the world's second-largest collection of globes created before 1850, after the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. It is the only institution worldwide that acquires, researches, and presents terrestrial and celestial globes, lunar and planetary globes, and related instruments.The museum's collection comprises over 820 objects (primarily terrestrial and celestial globes), of which over 250 are on permanent display.