We display a few decorative old maps on display boards we are able to place on cabinets. I am also trying to think of ways of making maps more accessible, so would be interested in solutions. Other issues are new buildings with walls unsuitable to hold pictures. For many enquiries we tend to point people at the online sources at the National Library of Scotland where indexes, map reading, and county boundaries are not an issue.

Yeah I was thinking of trying to display them in a similar way but our walls are full of notices etc. I am thinking of potentially holding a few events for school children where we use the maps with trade directories, and censuses to try and bring the maps alive by plotting what and who would've been where. I am also going to try and market them as a family history resource for people to access during family history workshops. But there are plenty of digital copies of the maps that would be more than suitable for this purpose as you said. I've not been able to come up with much more apart from those ideas.

Consider this kind of floor-standing display. https://images.app.goo.gl/WGsP7u67Ce7DrTNu6