Image: The Sunderland CollectionA digital journey through The Sunderland Collection’s maps of the Earth and skyThe Sunderland Collection is a treasure trove of 13th-19th century terrestrial and celestial maps. According to custodian Helen Sunderland-Cohen, the collection began ‘very organically’, not with a grand master plan, but with her father’s simple love of maps. Like the fantastical maps of the past, with their mythical beasts and decorative flourishes, modern maps are not purely objective. The solution was the Oculi Mundi digital collection. Instead, Oculi Mundi offers an ‘explore’ mode that allows users to digitally wander through the maps, and a ‘research’ mode, which provides a familiar, chronological layout with extensive catalogue information.