Games for children at the Archives de Paris

Name: Jeux pour les enfants aux Archives de Paris
Start: 2022-09-17T13:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives départementales et communales de Paris

Games and an exhibition of archival documents are offered to children to discover the history of the capital and the diversity of documents preserved in the Archives of Paris.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

For more than 200 years, the Paris Archives has been collecting documents produced by the services of the city of Paris, but also by the various government departments located on the territory of the Seine and then Paris. For the young audience, games in a multi-purpose room offer children, as well as their parents, to explore the history of Paris by having fun. In the mode of the game of the goose, young and old (re)discover in a playful way events that have marked the history of the capital, illustrated by archival documents. The originals, dating from the Middle Ages to the present day, are exhibited to sensitize budding historians to the heritage. Memory and coloring are also available.

À propos du lieu

Archives départementales et communales de Paris

18 boulevard Sérurier 75019 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

For more than two hundred years, the Paris Archives has collected, inventoried, preserved, communicated and highlighted documents of historical interest, concerning Paris or the former Seine department, whether they were produced by the prefecture, by the services of the City of Paris, by the decentralized services of the State or by institutions with a public service mission. Since 1990, the Paris Archives has been housed in a building specially built by the architectural firm Henri and Bruno Gaudin. It consists of 27 original document storage stores mainly related to the history of the capital, the population and the Parisian urbanism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also has a reading room of 60 places for the consultation of the originals and 33 places for the consultation of the microfilmed and digitized archives.