Discovery tour of regional archives in a former major seminary

Name: Visita-descubrimiento de archivos regionales instalados en un antiguo seminario mayor
Start: 2024-09-21T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-22T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Hôtel de Région (ancien grand séminaire)

The service "Archives et Stratégie de l'information" of the Greater East Region collects, processes, preserves, communicates and enhances the archives and activity documents of the services and the co

21 i 22 septiembre

Herramientas de registro

The "Archives and Information Strategy" service of the Greater East Region collects, processes, preserves, communicates and enhances the archives and activity documents of the services and the community and its associated organizations.
The archives open their doors exceptionally for a visit of part of the basement of the Hotel de Région and an archive room in small groups (duration 30 min). This visit aims to explore an unknown part of the Hotel de Région, as well as to make known and enhance the regional archives, in particular the plurality of preserved media: paper archives, audiovisual, sound, figurative, objects, digital archives.

About the location

Hôtel de Région (ancien grand séminaire)

5 rue de Jéricho, 51000 Châlons-en-Champagne

Marne
Grand Est

Built by Edward, then Jules Deperthes, from 1897 till 1901, the old(former) big(great) seminary(seminar) devoted in Sainte-Croix, wanted by Mgr Latty, became regional seat of government in 1988\. Compound(Made up), according to a plan there H, of three main buildings of equal height, it presents stone leaky facades of size of windows in round arch or of arcades in ground floor(floors), enriched by a frieze of yellow brick on the first floor and of windows passers-by in the second. Of its previous function(office), the large building(ship) keeps(preserves) a magnificent chapel of romano-Byzantine style, in three naves covered with vaults in pendants painted by G. Defretière. The visitors can also discover to it the old(former) library(bookcase), the office(desk) of the president of Region drawn by Henry Ciriani and the room of assembly adorned with an original composition of Olivier Debré.