The David Rumsey Map Collection has released an interactive map of a 1940 wooden model of San Francisco. The 1940 WPA San Francisco Model allows y'all to explore upward unopen the incredible item inwards this paw crafted wooden model of the city.
At the halt of the 1930's the Work Progress Administration inwards San Francisco spent 3 years creating a huge wooden model of the city. The completed model measured 38 x 42 feet together with was intended to live on used for both planning together with educational purposes. The model was unveiled inwards a lightwell of City Hall inwards Apr of 1940. However the model was exclusively briefly on display together with was removed presently subsequently the outset of the Second World War.
The 158 pieces of the model convey directly been reassembled. I empathise that the model volition live on on display inwards dissimilar local libraries around San Francisco throughout this wintertime merely that no permanent display domicile has nonetheless been flora for the model. If y'all can't runway downwards the model's electrical current location together with thus y'all tin displace at to the lowest degree directly explore this digitized interactive map of the model. You tin displace too larn to a greater extent than close the model at the David Rumsey Map Collection.
San Francisco isn't the exclusively urban marrow amongst a huge historical town model. In the nineteenth century Swiss architect Auguste Magnin created an amazing 3d model of the walled urban marrow of Geneva. You tin displace see the model at the Maison Tavel inwards Geneva. If y'all can't acquire to Geneva together with thus y'all volition require to see Geneve 1850 instead.
Geneve 1850 is an epic online interactive model of 1850's Geneva. The map allows y'all to immerse yourself inwards together with explore Geneva equally it looked inwards the mid-nineteenth century. To practise this digital model of historic Geneva engineers scanned Magnin's master copy model inwards high definition. They were together with thus able to recreate the 2,000 buildings (and their 40,000 windows together with 8,000 skylights) inwards this digital 3D model of the original.
Miniatur Wunderland inwards Hamburg, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany is the world’s largest model railway. Miniatur Wonderland too includes detailed models of a set out of German linguistic communication together with Austrian towns together with fifty-fifty a few famous places inwards America.
You tin displace genuinely explore this amazing model for yourself using Google Maps Street View. The Miniatur Wunderland Street View includes a lovely custom designed map which allows y'all to navigate to the dissimilar Street View scenes which convey been captured from around this huge model railway.
