It comprises a general map collection, city plans, atlases and a wealth of ancient cartographic materials. Significant areas of the collection include:

• The great classic atlases (Mercator, Blaeu, Ortelius, etc,) and nautical and star charts printed in Europe between the sixteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, in the CRAI Rare Book and Manuscript Library
• Plans and maps from the Spanish Civil War and pertaining to the bombing of Barcelona, in the Pavelló de la República Library
• Digitized maps and plans in the CRAI Library of Philosophy, Geography and History where it is necessary to emphasize the thirty maps of the Mapa topográfico nacional de España 1:50.000, edited between the 20s and the 50s
• School wall maps, in the CRAI Library of Philosophy, Geography and History
• Thematic maps available for consultation through the CeDocBiV, resulting from studies of plant communities and landscapes
• The set of sheets of the Map of Catalonia (geological and topographical) produced between 1922 and 1941, at a scale of 1:100,000, based on a project initiated by the Mancomunitat of Catalonia

The bulk of the collection can be found in:

• Earth Sciences Map Library which holds some 10,000 maps (from around the world, but particularly Catalonia and the Iberian Peninsula) and approximately 14,000 aerial photographs of Catalonia and Aragon
• Geography Map Library with a collection of 16,000 maps, 9,500 image maps and 1,000 atlases, from around the world but particularly Catalonia and Spain

• CRAI map libraries

Geography Map Library

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Earth Sciences Map Library

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CeDocBiV Map Library

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• Digital collections

Maps and charts
MDC

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Early Cartographic Material
MDC

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