Map cards collection.

They started coming to me at some point of time and - thanks to my friends and family - have been coming since, now combining a collection of a few thousand. Colurful and artsy designed, sometimes really cheesy looking, sometimes high-tech reproductions, showing an area enclosed to a size of a rectangle with an imaginable possibility to see something in real space with one look of an eye. Ready to bring the distant reality from thousands kilometers away that can be held in one hand, located easily in between two fingers. Telling something about the distant area of a land or island, line of a river or coastline, texture and shape of a mountain, zigzagged with lines of streets or highways, documenting before-and-after reality, and showing why people thought it was an important part in their life. Marked with flags, national emblems, state birds, additionally describing other attributes of distant reality. As a learning tool (and teaching, too), running the imagination high and being a direct reason to make further plans for possible visits. Changing the touch of a small cardboard into a real time exploration experience for all the senses and learning about other places, its people and different cultures.