This is a growing collection of automobile road maps issued since the early 20th century by the French tire manufacturing firm of Pneu Michelin (commonly shortened to Michelin). As of 2016 it includes 4,990 folded maps (published 1905-ongoing), accompanied by printed ephemera, secondary sources, souvenirs, and collectibles (approximately 350 items, 1911-2016).

Includes extensive holdings of Michelin's national road map series for France and other West European countries, usually in multiple editions of numbered sheets, issued in multiple but differently numbered national series, and published at various dates since approximately 1910. Geographic coverage is most complete for Benelux, British Isles, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.

The collection is far less complete for maps of areas outside Western Europe, partly because Michelin was less prolific in these areas, and partly because the collector Robert L. McDonald was most interested in collecting maps of France. With some exceptions, the bulk of world maps and maps of Eastern Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia in this collection were published after 1970.

4,990 folded road maps are sorted in 7 series established for the collection, assigned individual item numbers in one sequence spanning Michelin 1-Michelin 4990, and filed in boxes 1-66 (note that Michelin Map Collection item numbers differ from the printed sheet numbers appearing on the front panels of maps). Included are approximately 150 additions interfiled within McDonald's original collection in 2016.

Maps in Series 1-6 are listed in single-line descriptions that include some or all of the following information: Michelin Map Collection item numbers, cover or panel title keywords, printed Michelin sheet number, edition statement or plate code, cover design code, scale, notes, and publication date. Adapted from McDonald's extensive notes, map titles are recorded incompletely and inconsistently with varying punctuation. Most titles are briefly recorded using selected French or English cover or panel title keywords (usually place names, sometimes out of printed order). Sheets with two or more multilingual titles are usually recorded in only one language. Most item descriptions include cover or title panel design codes (examples include "Fr12", "Fr13", "X05", and "X06"). These codes were assigned by McDonald from an unexplained scheme he devised, or from an unknown source, and have been retained here without further explanation. Publication date ranges for series and subseries are derived from, and limited to, maps in the collection in 2016. In other words, complete and definitive date ranges of many series published by Michelin vary from those in this incomplete collection.

The earliest separately published maps in this collection, together with their filing locations, are listed below:

• Circuit d’Auvergne eliminatoires françaises et Coupe Gordon-Bennett (1905). Filed in Series 1, France, subseries 7, city and city region maps of France, Box 30, Item 2615.
• Carte Michelin: environs de Clermont-Ferrand au 200,000me (approximately 1910). Filed in Series 1, France, subseries 7, city and city region maps of France, Box 30, Item 2617.
• Carte Michelin: France à 1:1,000,000e, partie nord-est (published between 1908-1918?). Filed in Series 1, France, subseries 8, national maps of France, Box 35, Item 3002.
• Une des cartes Michelin: la France a l'echelle de 1:2,400,000e (published 192-?). Filed as the index map at the start of Series 1, France, subseries 1, regional maps of France, approximately 1910-approximately 1925, Box 1, Item 1.
• Michelin touring map of the United States: Providence (approximately 1921). Filed in Series 4: America, Australia, and Thailand, Box 65, Item 4911.