Fra Mauro map in the National Library of Australia [Video]

Track the journey of the world's greatest medieval map, Fra Mauro's 1450 Map of the World, from its home at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice since 1811 to the National Library of Australia, Canberra, in 2013, to take pride of place in the National Library's summer blockbuster exhibition, Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia. From canal to ship, truck to aircraft into another truck, this journey, like the exhibition, only happens once in a lifetime.

Nat Williams, James and Bettison Treasures Curator at the National Library of Australia, discusses the Fra Mauro Map of the World. Created by the monk Fra Mauro between 1390-1459, it is one of the most important and famous maps of all time and the crown jewel of the collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. For the first time in its nearly 600-year history, it will leave Italy to appear in the National Library of Australia's exhibition Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia.