The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology in Kansas City, Missouri gets a mention in the travel section of the New York Times (in an article on rare book collections that are accessible to the public) for its collection of celestial atlases. Via MapHist.
On past exhibitions of the Linda Hall’s celestial atlas collection: The Face of the Moon; Star Atlases; Celestial Atlases, Antique and Modern.
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