The International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes, founded as Coronelli-World League of Friends of the Globe in Vienna in 1952, is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to foster the study of old and modern terrestrial and celestial globes, lunar globes and globes of planets as specific cartographic expression forms, and to promote research on globes and globe related instruments in their historical and socio-cultural contexts. Its most important aims and activities are to publish the scientific journal Der Globusfreund respectively Globe Studies and to organize international scientific symposia.