Fra Mauro's World Map was created by the Galileo Museum in collaboration with the Marciana National Library in Venice as part of the project Scienza, storia, società in Italia. Da Leonardo e Galileo alle “case” dell’innovazione, funded by MIUR from the resources of the Special Integrative Fund for Research (FISR) - CIPE Resolution 78/2017.

The translation into Arabic was financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU as part of the PNRR owned by the Ministry of Culture – Misura M1-C3 - Investimento 1.2 "Rimozione delle barriere fisiche e cognitive in musei, biblioteche e archivi per consentire un più ampio accesso e partecipazione alla cultura".

Web site curated by
Filippo Camerota and Angelo Cattaneo

Scientific committee
Orsola Braides, Filippo Camerota, Stefano Campagnolo, Angelo Cattaneo, Piero Falchetta, Paolo Galluzzi, Maurizio Messina, Andrea Nanetti

Texts and film script
Filippo Camerota and Angelo Cattaneo

Categorization of cartouches and geolocation of toponyms
Angelo Cattaneo and Sophia Sasopoulou

Diplomatic transcription of the cartouches
Piero Falchetta (World Map), Heinrich Winter (Marine Chart)

Translations
Italian cartouches (from the Venetian vernacular): Filippo Camerota and Angelo Cattaneo
English cartouches: Jeremy Scott (World Map), Heinrich Winter (Marine Chart)
Texts in English: Thomas Haskell Simpson
Chinese cartouches and texts: Xie Mingguang
Chinese translation revision: Elisabetta Corsi
Arabic cartouches and texts: Hakam Malky and Hiba Qassar (Il Nuovo Traduttore Letterario, Firenze)

Texts editing 
Laura Manetti

Website
Coordinator: Iolanda Rolfo
Leonardo Curioni, Elena Fani, Roberta Massaini, Maurizio Sanesi, Sophia Sasopoulou

Videos
Coordinator: Jacopo Tonini
Iconographic research: Filippo Camerota and Angelo Cattaneo with Sabina Bernacchini, Giulia Lucci, Silvia Paoli, Sophia Sasopoulou
3D models and animations: Luisa Barattin, Fabio Corica, Samuel Taddei
Video editing: Daniela Vespoli with Giulia Lucci and Silvia Paoli
Audio: Voxfarm, Roma
Synchronization into Chinese: Zhong Art International

Digital Library
Coordinator: Stefano Casati
Cataloging: Adele Pocci
Images editing: Silvia Paoli
Acquisition of rights: Susanna Cimmino

High resolution images granted
American Geographical Society Library / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Archivo de la Catedral / Museo Catedralicio y Diocesano, Burgo de Osma
Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc., La Jolla
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano
Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana, Vicenza
Biblioteca Civica, Verona
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Firenze
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia
Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Torino
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo / Archivio Capitolare, Vercelli
Gallerie Estensi / Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena
Governatorato SCV / Direzione dei Musei Vaticani
Hereford Cathedral
Opera di Santa Croce, Firenze
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Handschriftenabteilung
Städtische Museen auf der Plassenburg, Kulmach
Universidade de Lisboa

Acknowledgements
Sara Bonechi, Walter Lapini