 At the start of World War II , the globes were sent to Beaconsfield and stored with part of the Wallace Collection at Hall Barn in the care of Lady Burnham . They were brought back to London in 1945 and were at one stage kept in the King 's Library on loan to the British Museum . The globes were installed in their present position in the Middle Temple Library when the current library building opened in 1958 . In 2003 , they were loaned to the National Maritime Museum for an exhibition commemorating the life of Elizabeth I. 
