Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections

Dutch Colonial Maps KIT

One of the largest collections of maps of the former Dutch colonies

G 97-370, sheet 6

Dutch Colonial Maps KIT

A large collection of c. 11,000 map sheets and c. 250 atlases of the Dutch colonies from the former library of the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute), a State loan since 2013. The collection comprises cartographic material of the former Dutch colonies of present-day Indonesia, Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles and the regions of the Dutch East- and West-India companies (VOC and WIC).