Written and graphic heritage: a sustainable heritage

Name: Written and graphic heritage: a sustainable heritage
Start: 2022-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives et bibliothèque patrimoniale

Discover the rich holdings of the municipal archives and the Abbeville Heritage Library

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

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03 22 24 95 16

In 1861, Paul Arthur d'Emonville decided to build a mansion on an old plot of the priory of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul, acquired by his family during the French Revolution. Today, the municipal archives and the historical library occupy the site, located within a park labeled «remarkable garden» in 2013, whose layout has changed little since the 19th century.
Discover the rich holdings of the municipal archives and the Abbeville Heritage Library, composed of thousands of books, iconographic documents and sometimes objects, not to mention the city’s old archives. The team will explain to you the methods of preservation, safeguarding and valorization of these treasures of the written and graphic heritage.
Saturday and Sunday | departures at 2PM, 3PM, 4PM and 5PM Free

About the location

Archives et bibliothèque patrimoniale

26 place Clemenceau 80100 Abbeville

Somme
Hauts-de-France

A written and graphic heritage concerning all the Hauts de France
Some figures: The Archives and the Heritage Library occupy the whole of the Hôtel d'Emonville: 5 floors of 200 m2 each and 5 km of shelves hosting more than 160,000 documents. Moreover, 2km of contemporary archives are preserved in the various departments of the Town Hall. Incomparable treasures: the charter of the commune of Abbeville (1184), bubbles of the twelfth century, the "Gospels of Saint-Riquier", remarkable Carolingian manuscript of the eighth century, the "City of God" printed by Pierre Gérard in Abbeville in 1486, etc.