Travel Collections: donate your materials

What we are looking for (priority areas)

• Books & guidebooks: historical guides (e.g., Baedeker and related), tourism monographs, yearbooks.
• Maps & itineraries: tourist maps, city plans, road maps.
• Postcards & photography: used/unused postcards, travel albums, slides/negatives, stereographs.
• Tourism ephemera: brochures, travel-agency catalogues, hotel rate lists, menus, luggage labels, tickets/itineraries.
• Transport: railway and shipping timetables, airline timetables, route maps, safety cards, inflight magazines, press kits.
• Institutional promotion: materials from tourism boards, fairs, official campaigns.
• Preferred period: late 19th century to the 1970s; coherent contemporary holdings are also considered.

What we usually do not accept

• Common duplicates without variant/condition value.
• Materials without provenance or in compromised condition (active mold, extensive structural damage).
• Unidentifiable clippings or unauthorized copies.

How it works

• Propose your collection: describe it with a brief list and a few photos. Contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
• Curatorial assessment: interest, coherence, condition, provenance.
• On-site inspection or shipping (with appropriate packing; pickup may be considered for significant holdings).
• Agreement: donation (transfer of ownership) or long-term loan/deposit, with terms and credit line.
• Preservation & access: cataloguing, possible digitization, and online publication with credit to the donor/collection.