The Bordeaux Metropole Archives invite you to explore time through a varied programme of events.

Guided tours
• Saturday and Sunday - Building
Behind the scenes of the Bordeaux Metropole Archives
Discovery tour of the Hôtel des Archives de Bordeaux Métropole and the preserved collections
Duration: 1h. Departure every 30 minutes from 2pm until 6pm.
• Saturday 3pm - Building
The Archives Hotel of Bordeaux Métropole, a High Environmental Quality building
Duration 1h. Open to 15 people on registration with the public service:
service.mediation.archives@bordeaux-metropole.fr
• Sunday 3pm - Square
Plants and trees of the Parvis
Duration 1h. Open to 20 people on registration with the public service: service.mediation.archives@bordeaux-metropole.fr
Exhibitions
In free visits
Saturday and Sunday, from 2pm to 7pm
• «The time of bridges. Four centuries of challenges from Bordeaux»
The exhibition explores the history of the crossing of the Garonne from the 18th to the 21st century, from ferries and other naval houses, to road bridge projects, realized or left in the boxes. From the stone bridge to the Simone-Veil bridge, including the ferry bridge, the Saint-Jean bridge, the Aquitaine bridge and the Chaban-Delmas bridge: exceptional works of art, expression of the modernity of their time.
• «Rosa Bonheur, out-of-frame. The artist from the perspective of the archives» - Focus Matrimoine
From his childhood in Bordeaux, to his father Raymond, himself a landscape painter with tributes in the public space, the exhibition looks back on a few milestones in the career of this woman artist who succeeded in imposing herself and being accepted by the society of her time.
• “In the footsteps of Regina Badet” - Focus Matrimoine
A selection of documents honours actress and dancer Régina Badet (Bordeaux, 1876-1949), from her early beginnings at the Bordeaux Opera in 1890 to her interpretation of the Bacchus Triomphant for the Fête des Vendanges in 1909. They reveal an artist whose career later extended to Paris, where she became a star dancer at the Opéra-Comique and played Concepcion Perez, the troubled heroine of Pierre Louys and Pierre Frondaie’s La femme et le pantin at the theatre. After touring South America and a brief foray into film, she ended her career in the early 1920s and returned to Bordeaux until her death in 1949.
Highlight
Improvisational theatre
Saturday 17 September, session from 5.30pm to 6.30pm
With the actors of the troupe Improvidence Bordeaux
Guided by their experience at the Archives and by the suggestions of the public, the actors of the Improvidence troupe offer an offbeat and humorous vision of the documents.
Projections
Continuous, conference room
• Saturday from 2pm to 7pm
Dissemination of audiovisual archives on recycling and waste sorting.
• Sunday from 2pm to 7pm
Film of the restoration of the first 17 plans of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in 2021.
Presentation of original restored plans.
Young audience animation
• Saturday and Sunday from 2pm to 7pm
From the plant to the paper
For 6-12 year olds: Track game to discover the site of the Archives of Bordeaux Métropole from the vegetation of the forecourt to the reading room.