Hotel de Soubise

Come and discover the rocaille decorations of the apartments of the Prince of Soubise. Designed by architects Delamair and Boffrand, it has been home to the National Archives since 1808.
Ground floor and 1st floor of the Hotel de Soubise

The permanent route of the National Archives Museum

The permanent exhibition presents a selection of archives showing the diversity of media and forms of documents (sheet, roll, register, iconographic documents).
Ground floor and 1st floor of the Hotel de Soubise

Courtyards and gardens

Composite gardens refurbished by landscape architect Louis Bénech.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

EXHIBITIONS

As part of the “Essentials”: the 1944 Women’s Suffrage Order

(September 14, 2022 – January 9, 2023)

At the beginning of the 20th century, with the rise of feminist associations, the struggle for women’s right to vote took on new forms, more visible in the public space. While the Assembly welcomes several legislative proposals, Senators systematically block any reform. On the eve of the Second World War, France was one of the few European countries that did not grant this right to women.
Things changed in 1944, when women finally became “electorate and eligible under the same conditions as men”, as stipulated in Article 17 of the Ordinance on the Organization of Public Authorities in France after the Liberation. This short sentence represents the historical culmination of a progressive awareness and a long-term fight for the civil rights of women in France, for their emancipation, their independence and their freedom.
Ground floor of the Hotel de Soubise, Prince’s Room

Archival readings on the exhibition of the Women’s Suffrage Ordinance

Through reading aloud excerpts from the archives, actresses Anne-Lise Heimburger and Évelyne Didi will give an insight into the struggles of the long movement for women’s access to a fundamental right.
Saturday and Sunday, 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm
Ground floor of the Hotel de Soubise, Prince’s Room

Paris Design Week at the National Archives: D3SIGN CAPSULE

For several years, the National Archives have hosted the Paris Design Week, an event that offers a cross-cutting vision of design. For this edition, the magazine Elle décoration proposes an exhibition around the NFT (sale of works of art in digital form). For the occasion, the magazine invited French designers, decorators and interior designers to collaborate with a digital or 3D artist to create virtual works inspired by their respective worlds.
First floor of the Hotel de Soubise, living room and princess room