Archives department

The Archives Department preserves documents that bear witness to the history of the Collège de France. Scientific archives illustrating the work and experiments of the institution's professors and laboratories, posters and registers recording lectures, photographs, objects, recordings and more. the archives of the Collège de France reveal the different facets of the institution from its creation in the 16th century to the present day. Donations of old and contemporary documents are regularly added to the collection, which is then processed by the team of archivists and made available to you in the reading room.

Salamandre is both the Collège de France's digital heritage library and archive catalog. It provides access to detailed inventories of archival holdings and to the corpus digitized since 2013 (audiovisual archives, manuscripts, photographs, etc.). New resources are regularly put online.

The Collège de France archives are also listed on Calames, France Archives, PSL explore and Gallica.

Documents may only be consulted in the reading room, by appointment 24 hours in advance.
Documents are subject to the French Heritage Code. They must be used in compliance with copyright law.
If you wish to consult documents held in the archives but marked as "not immediately available" in the catalog, you must request an exemption. Please contact the Archives Department by e-mail to find out about the procedure.
Archives documents are by definition unique, and must therefore be handled with care.

On-demand digitization of up to 20 images.
Wifi Internet access, computer workstations for consulting catalogs and electronic resources.

Monday to Friday, 9 am to 6 pm, by appointment.
Closed in August and during the Christmas vacations.