Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire

  • Departmental Archives of Maine-et-Loire

Address

Rue de Frémur 106 BP744
Angers
Pays de la Loire
49007 CEDEX 01
France

Phone

+33 (0)2 41 80 80 00

Fax

33 (0)241685863

Email


Web

https://archives.maine-et-loire.fr/

History

In 1796, a department intended to collect documents from the Ancien Régime was created in the capital of each department. In Angers, the Departmental Archives were originally housed in a wing of the former Saint-Aubin Abbey. Several successive building campaigns extended the space until, in 1985, the narrowness of the premises led the Department to plan the construction of a new building. It was built on rue de Frémur, on the site of the former Visitation convent, which was owned by the Department, and inaugurated in 1987. Fifteen years later, the ever-increasing number of visitors made a new extension necessary, which was completed in 2004.

Building(s)

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Finding Aids, Guides, and Publication

Digitised archives

Inventories

Opening Times

The administrative services are open from Monday to Friday, from 9am to 12.30pm and from 1.30pm to 5pm.

The consultation room is open at the following times: Monday from 1.30 pm to 6 pm; Tuesday to Thursday from 9am to 6pm; Friday from 9am to 1.30pm.

Annual closures from 1 to 15 August and from 25 December to 1 January.

Conditions of Access

Consultation is free and open to all. Any French or foreign person can consult the documents that can be communicated.

Before consulting the documents, you will be asked to : fill in a registration form present an identity document; accept the rules of the reading room. In the document consultation room, please be discreet if you are working with several people and above all handle the archives with care. The documents are unique and fragile.

Up to 3 documents can be requested at a time, consulted one by one. The maximum number of items released is 6 per session (morning or afternoon). There is free access to periodicals, periodicals and digital images.

Pick-up times:

  • Morning: 9:15 - 9:45 - 10:15 - 10:45 - 11:15 - 11:45.
  • Afternoon: 13.45 - 14.15 - 14.45 - 15.15 - 15.45 - 16.15 - 16.45

Obligatory deposit of personal belongings in the open-access cloakrooms.

Environment of silence and respect for the work of readers and staff.

No ink pens, drinks or food are allowed in the reading room.

Use of a camera is permitted in the reading room.

Reproduction Services

Registration and consultation of documents are free of charge. Only the reproduction of documents is subject to a fee.

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