Columbus Marco Polo 14-Inch Diameter Tabletop Globe

Columbus Globes’ Commitment to Conservation

While being innovators and leaders in the globe making industry, Columbus Globes is a company that is also focused on conservation of the planet we all share and live upon. Due to their commitment to the environment, Columbus carefully chooses materials not only for their high quality, but also considers their ecological impact. Woods used on the floor globes come from renewable sources, and are finished with special formaldehyde-free lacquers. The plastics used are the highest quality, 100% recyclable ABS materials. Cardboard materials used in packaging are also 100% recyclable.

Columbus has also preserved a manufacturing process that would have otherwise gone extinct in this new world of automated production. Their exclusive mouth-blown crystal spheres with hand laminated cartography are among the finest examples of globe-making available anywhere. The raised-relief mountains on these are individually added as bits of hand formed clay, and adhered to the sphere before the map is layered on – a skill that takes a steady and very experienced hand. Again, an effect that would simply be impossible using automated methods.

Columbus Globes Profile

Columbus Globes is the world’s oldest continuously running globe manufacturer. For nearly a century the Oestergaard family has continuously innovated and revolutionized the globe making industry.

The experience accumulated over 4 generations of globe making has earned the Columbus brand the status of the world’s premier globe manufacturer. Popular features such as internal illumination, dual-mapping, and the invention of the acrylic globe spheres were all innovations brought to us by Columbus globes and the Oestergaard family, and are all common features across many of today’s globe manufacturers.

Today, Columbus Globes’ slogan -- “Experience the World” is an exemplary phrase to describe the feeling one gets when in the presence one of their outstanding products.