From the Library of Congress, NOAA & museum archives
Restored antique maps,
printed & framed to order.
Museum-archive originals, restored by hand for print. Sizes that fit the map instead of cropping it. Framed in the country of delivery and at your door in days.
- Printed in the USAfor US orders — locally elsewhere
- Ships in 2–4 daysmade to order, tracked
- 30-day replacement guaranteedamaged or wrong — reprinted free
- Archive-sourced originalsrights record on every product
11 collections · 151 framed vintage prints
Find the map that belongs on your wall
Antique World Maps
12 maps · framed from $95 →
Antique Maps of US States
16 maps · framed from $95 →
Antique Map Prints of American Cities
24 maps · framed from $95 →
Framed Nautical Charts
21 maps · framed from $95 →
Antique Maps of Europe
9 maps · framed from $95 →
Framed Topographic Maps
10 maps · framed from $95 →
Historic Charts, Ancient World & Themed Maps
9 maps · framed from $95 →
Vintage Travel & National Park Posters
11 posters · framed from $95 →
Antique Maps of Asia
5 maps · framed from $95 →
Japanese Woodblock Prints
24 prints · framed from $95 →
Patent Prints
10 prints · framed from $95 →Why ours look different
The same map on Etsy is a blurry scan with a fold through Africa.
We start from the archive's full-resolution scan, then remove the scanner bed, the library stamp, the fold shadows and the colour cast — and keep the paper tone, the plate marks and every line the engraver cut. Nothing is redrawn.
How we restore
Cape Cod Bay Nautical Chart, 1879 — drag the handle. The archive scan on the left is exactly as published; the right is the file that goes to the printer.
Map of the month
Carta Marina Sea Monster Map, 1572
Olaus Magnus / Antonio Lafreri · Library of Congress
Olaus Magnus was a Swedish churchman living in exile in Italy when he drew the Carta Marina, the first detailed map of Scandinavia, in 1539. It is remembered less for its coastlines than for what he put in the water: a sea crowded with serpents, spouting whales, a great lobster-like beast and sailors going about their business in the middle of it all. This print is from the 1572 edition engraved in copper and published in Rome by Antonio Lafreri, held by the National Library of Sweden and shared through the Library of Congress. Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and the Baltic are all here, with forests, castles and reindeer on land and the famous menagerie offshore. The Lafreri engraving is finer and more compact than the original woodcut, which is exactly why it frames so well: at 24 x 36 inches every monster is still readable from across a room.
How it's made
Three steps between the archive and your wall
- 1
The archive scan
We only use maps whose archive states they are free to reuse — the Library of Congress, NOAA, USGS, Boston Public Library, the Rijksmuseum. The rights record is on every product page.
- 2
The restoration
Crop, colour, dust, folds and stamps — by hand, at full resolution, without repainting anything the cartographer drew. Only sizes the scan can carry at 200 dpi or better are offered.
- 3
Print & frame
Archival matte paper and pigment inks, printed by our partner in the country of delivery, framed to order, packed flat or in a tube, and tracked to your door.
Gift guides
A map is the gift people keep on the wall
Gifts for history buffs
The first map of the United States, the Mitchell map, the Ratzer plan.
See the guide →Gifts for sailors
Coast Survey charts of the waters they know by heart.
See the guide →New home
Their city or state, as it was drawn two centuries ago.
See the guide →National park lovers
Yellowstone, Yosemite and Rainier as the first surveyors drew them.
See the guide →Gallery wall sets
Pairs and trios already matched in size and frame — one click, one wall.
See the sets →Map of the month