Hello All:

Does anyone have any helpful suggestions on how to store large format 2-D 
materials? I'm specifically wondering about a map that is 5' x 3.5'. Being a 
county history museum and not an art museum, the map  is larger than any of 
our standard sized flat file cabinets and we can't afford any custom cabinets 
for this purpose. And of course, being eternally crunched for space, we don't 
really have horizontal space large enough to house a 5' map that isn't already 
being used for something else. I've thought about rolling, as well as making 
one fold to get the map in question in the flat file cabinet, but neither option 
sounds that great to me. Any ideas?

I'm also wondering about how to store large maps of the pull-down variety, 
that still have the wooden dowel attached at one or both ends. Should I store 
them the same as above?

Thanks!
Amanda Thompson Dyer
Curator
Bell County Museum

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