Created in 1796, the Departmental Archives is one of the oldest local administrative services, as old as the courts and as old as the prefectures.
In the Indre, during the Revolution and until the end of the 19th century (1894), the archives are kept in the attic of Château-Raoul
From 1894 to 2003, a building adjoining the prefecture, rue de la Vieille Prison in Châteauroux became the place of departmental memory before arriving here, at 1 rue Jeanne d'Arc in 2003.
We are here in the old teacher training school that operated in these buildings until the 1980s (INSPE route de Tours). The building was then bought by the Department Council and also hosted the BDI until 1990. It is the Berrichon quadrilateral in the image of the National Archives in Paris …
The conservation building or silo is the work of the architectural firm Sarfati and Broquet. It has 4 floors, 4 shops on each floor and two on the ground floor on each side of the reading room (about forty places). The U-shaped building is the former normal school built in 1889 by Henri Dauvergne, departmental architect. exhibition room, conference room, room of the educational service, unloading dock, decontamination room and sorting room, in total 6500 m² (4468 m² for the stores), spaces to be discovered during these visits ...