Discover the Departmental Archives with a guide

Name: Discover the Departmental Archives with a guide
Start: 2022-09-18T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives départementales de la Meuse

Guided by an archivist, discover the contemporary building, the operation of the service and its missions, as well as some «treasures»!

Sunday 18 September 2022, 10:00, 14:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

©Département de la Meuse

Guided by an archivist, discover the contemporary building, the operation of the service and its missions, as well as some «treasures»!

Created in the revolutionary era from the old collections, the Departmental Archives are in perpetual growth and constitute the written memory of the Meuse department.

About the location

Archives départementales de la Meuse

26 rue d'Aulnois, 55000 Bar-le-Duc

Meuse
Grand Est

The Departmental Archives of the Meuse constitute the memory of the department.
Until the Revolution, the archives were scattered in many places. They were first assembled in eight places for the department in 1790, then only one six years later, in the building then serving as the Prefecture, with about 1000 linear meters of archives. In 1857, faced with the increase in volume, one house, then three, were transformed to house the Departmental Archives. A first dedicated building was erected in place of these houses in 1913\. When it reached saturation, it was replaced in 1968 by a much larger one located a few hundred meters away by Jean Fayeton, a great architect and engineer. This building is more suited to consulting the fund.
However, over the years, this building has become too narrow, blocked in a very complex site. Fire safety was not assured and its extension was almost impossible.
In 1992, the project for a new building was approved. Ten years later, a competition was launche