Introduction to archival research

Name: Introduction to archival research
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives et Bibliothèque départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône

European Heritage Days 2023

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

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Want or need to do a research in archives? An archivist will guide you through the process and familiarize you with the various tools (in the reading room). Thanks to this initiation, you will be autonomous in your future research that you can perform in the reading room at the usual opening hours to the public (excluding Heritage Days).
Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

About the location

Archives et Bibliothèque départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône

18-20 rue Mirès 13003 Marseille

Bouches-du-Rhône
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

The Departmental Archives of the Bouches-du-Rhône, the collective memory of the department:
Created during the French Revolution and placed today under the double supervision of the State and the Department, the Departmental Archives were installed in 2006 in the heart of the Euroméditerranée perimeter, in the new building of the Departmental Archives and Library (ABD Gaston Defferre) built by the Marseille architectural firm Vezzoni-Laporte. A huge hull called the pebble houses the written memory of the department and its inhabitants, more than 65 linear kilometres of documents of which the oldest dates back to the year 814\. Charters of the Middle Ages, registers of notaries, cadastral maps, administrative documents, maps, posters, letters, photographs, cd-rom are kept and communicated to the public in the reading room. The valorisation of the archives is proposed to all through a dynamic program of exhibitions, live shows, meetings, visits-workshops and via a website where is availa