Guided tours of the Archives of Paris

Name: Visites guidées des 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

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

Archivists propose you to follow the path of a document, from its collection to its communication to the reader. The visit is also an opportunity to discover the building of the architect Henri Gaudin.
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.
How do these documents become archives? What happens from their collection to their communication in the reading room? What is kept, how and why? What are the secrets behind the Archives de Paris? Throughout the weekend, archivists answer these questions during exceptional guided tours in spaces that are usually closed to the public.

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.