LTStraipsnyje aptariama kartografijos vieta ir galimybės pristatant kultūros paveldo objektus ir jų sklaidą visuomenei. Ypatingas dėmesys skiriamas kultūros paveldo vietai nacionalinių atlasų struktūroje, pristatoma ir lyginama užsienio šalių (Lenkijos, Baltarusijos, Ukrainos, Švedijos, Italijos) nacionalinių atlasų ir Lietuvos atlasų leidybos patirtis. Aptariami ir įvertinami Lietuvoje išleisti atlasai ir kultūros paveldui skirti informaciniai enciklopediniai leidiniai. Autoriai teigia poreikį tobulinti kultūros paveldo kartografinį prezentavimą, siūlo išplėsti kultūros paveldui skirtą dalį rengiamame Lietuvos nacionaliniame atlase, bando atgaivinti specialaus kultūros paveldui skirto atlaso leidybos idėją.
ENThe paper presents cartographic presentations of the cultural heritage for selected European countries. The national atlases review shows great solution for this diversity - from completely weak and unrepresentative (Poland) to developed and comprehensive (Sweden), clearly exceeding the National Atlas of the cartographic work scope and competence. It can be concluded that the solution to the problem of uniform criteria and methodological schemes in both Eastern and Western European countries do not yet have. Compared with the presentation of foreign countries (except Sweden) the cultural heritage cartographic presentational in Lithuanian National Atlas project was provided version is much more detailed and more complex and closer to the genre of cartographic publications requirements. Cultural heritage presentational features are also active in cultural heritage encyclopedic information to the general public as well as abundant tourist information booklets-cartoschemes of cartographic expression. Those publications are floated communication design requirements, have a wide range of publisher’ desires, and is not always of good quality solutions. Accumulation of cultural heritage objects and areas cartographic presentational experience, requires critically rethink and try to start the process of optimizing the national level. One of the tools to be able to separate types of objects of cultural heritage imaging unification (analogous to informational wayside marks) in determining the optimal cartographic semiotics and design points of view characters, is now even help to overcome the frequent chaos of cartographic communication. The paper presented the cultural heritage of the Swedish National Atlas example would be for us a kind of cartography, showing the way by which we should go to improving the cultural heritage mapping for wide society.