Archive Libraries

Established in 1934 to care for the records of the federal government, the National Archives displays the Declaration of Independe...

Grown from the Public Record Office created in 1838, The National Archives at Kew holds more than a thousand years of British stat...

Created by the revolutionary assembly in 1790 as the first national archive institution in the world, the Archives nationales pres...

King Charles III gathered the documents of Spanish colonial administration into the old merchants exchange of Seville in 1785. Tod...

Organized in 1846 as the Hazine-i Evrak, the Treasury of Documents, the Ottoman Archives preserve the paperwork of an empire that ...

Founded in 1792 as the archive of New Spain, the Archivo General de la Nacion moved in 1980 into Lecumberri, a panoptic art deco p...

Founded in 1971 to preserve the records of the modern Japanese state, the National Archives in Tokyo hold government documents fro...

Holding the records of the Australian federation from 1901 onward, the National Archives in Canberra safeguard the constitution do...

Separated from the Vatican Library by Pope Paul V in 1612, the archive holds the central records of the Holy See across more than ...

Emperor Charles V ordered royal records gathered in the castle of Simancas near Valladolid in 1540, creating one of the first offi...