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Purple dot: private collection, located but not open to the public.
1,049 institutions on the map out of the 1,098 the site names · 1 is still waiting for reliable coordinates
National Historical Museum, Rio de Janeiro
48 have no location at all (private collections, dealers, rights holders)
An equal-area map: every country takes up its true share of the surface of the globe. This is the Equal Earth projection, the one the United Nations General Assembly resolution of 4 September 2026 encourages, in place of the Mercator projection of ordinary maps, which makes Greenland look as large as Africa.
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