Models are useful tools to disseminate information to the public. They provide information much faster than maps and are easier to understand. Furthermore, they can be viewed from different angles by a group of individuals at once. So, models are ideal for showing geographically located items in exhibitions, save for the large amount of space models require.

A list with a selection of museums which have one or more landscape models in their exhibition or collection:

• Carinthia Relief Model displayed in Villach, Austria
• Glacier Garden Lucerne – Oldest Mountain Relief of the World
• Bayerisches Nationalmuseum preserves urban models of the 16^th century.
• Focus Terra, ETH Zürich
• Naturmuseum St. Gallen exhibits the largest landscape relief in Switzerland (37m²).
• Musée des plans-reliefs, Paris. Famous models of fortifications created between 1668 and 1870.
• Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Collection of more than 100 terrain models.
• Stelvio-Umbrail Museum 14/18, Relief – Modelle
• Virtual Museum of Relief Models