Visit "Archives in all directions"

Name: Visite "Les Archives dans tous les sens"
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives départementales de Seine-et-Marne

Take an unusual behind-the-scenes tour of the building! (maximum 15 people per tour - depart the lobby every 45 minutes).

Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 14h00Passé

Archives départementales de Seine-et-Marne / Mikaël Henry

Archives in all directions

Follow an unusual tour of the building’s backstage, usually inaccessible to the public. The course ends with an unprecedented selection of original documents from the Middle Ages to the present day. All day long, come test your knowledge of the history of the Seine-et-Marne to win prizes.

À propos du lieu

Archives départementales de Seine-et-Marne

248 avenue Charles-Prieur 77190 Dammarie-lès-Lys

Seine-et-Marne
Île-de-France

The Direction des Archives départementales is a department of the Department of Seine-et-Marne, under the scientific and technical control of the Ministry of Culture (Service Interministériel des Archives de France). Like all departmental archives, the Archives de la Seine-et-Marne date back to the Revolution. They were originally formed (1796-1797) by the gathering in Melun of the archives of the administrations of the Ancien Régime, ecclesiastical establishments and families of emigrants. The objective is to keep "papers and titles" to provide legal guarantees to citizens, especially those who acquire national property.
Over the years, the archives of the revolutionary period and the records of public administrations based in the department, as well as deposits, private donations and acquisitions, have grown continuously up to the present day.
In 1989, they were transferred to Dammarie-lès-Lys in a contemporary building, redeveloped in 2003 to provide readers with new spaces, adapted