Visit of the local Archives of Metz

Name: Visit of the local Archives of Metz
Start: 2018-09-15T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Cloître des Récollets

A free visit to discover the local Archives of Metz, installed(settled) to the Cloister of Récollets and in the old(former) reservoirs of tap water.

15 and 16 September 2018Passed

Conditions

free unconditionally

@Archives municipales de Metz

The local Archives of Metz are settled in the superb frame of the Cloister of Récollets, former medieval convent of the district of the Old City. In the course of this free visit, discover our reading room and our stores of archives, with feature to have been done up in the former reservoirs of water of Metz joined to the Cloister. A selection of archive documents will be presented on the route of visit. The staff will be available to answer your questions.

About the location

Cloître des Récollets

1-3 rue des Récollets, 57000 Metz

Moselle
Grand Est

Based(Established) by monks in the order of the Cordeliers who settled down on the hill Sainte-Croix in 1230, the cloister was occupied from 1602 and up to Revolution by Récollets who(which) became established there on their place. Buildings(Ships) knew diverse uses then: store with salt, coopers then shoemakers working for the army, workshops(studios) of charity, office(desk) of beneficence... On a part(party) of the gardens of the Convent of Récollets were built in 1863 of the reservoirs of water for the supply of the city. Today, the Local Archives occupy two old(former) reservoirs.
The Garden of the Simple (curative plants) of the cloister of Récollets presents a collection of more than 80 different sorts(species) with their precise and official therapeutic indications published by the French Agency of Sanitary Safety(Security) of the Products of Health (ANSM). The second garden proposes toxic plants used in the preparation of medicine as anticancer agents, tonic cardiac or else powerful painkillers.