All to the Archives! Discovery of the Departmental Archives of the Bouches-du-Rhône and their reserves usually closed to the public.

Name: ¡Todos a los Archivos! Descubrimiento de los Archivos departamentales de Bouches-du-Rhône y de sus reservas habitualmente cerradas al públic
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives et Bibliothèque départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône

Discover the Departmental Archives, their conservation stores usually closed to the public, the heritage treasures they contain and the various professions of the Archives.

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Departmental Archives of the Bouches-du-Rhône exceptionally open their backstage to the public. Come and discover this place of memory and the heritage treasures it contains: guided tours of the reserves, exhibition of documents (including some prestigious documents from the chest), presentation of restored documents, initiation to research in archives.
Public guided tours of 1:15 a.m., depart every hour (10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.), last admission at 5:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday.
Workshop discovery of an archive with Olivier Gorse, archivist, in the reading room (for the adult public, children from 12 years old admitted).
Saturday and Sunday at 11:00 and 3:00.
Demonstration of binding by the workshop "Open Book", in the reading room.
Saturday only from 10 am to 6 pm.
All these animations are free and without reservation. For guided tours and workshops, the public must arrive at the GDS reception bank (located in the building’s lobby) for check-in. Additional information on 04 13 31 82 00 or 04 13 31 82 52.

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