List of archives
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This list of archives contains many archives from around the world. An archive
Archive
An archive is a collection of historical records, or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of an organization...

 is an establishment that collects and stores historical document
Document
The term document has multiple meanings in ordinary language and in scholarship. WordNet 3.1. lists four meanings :* document, written document, papers...

s, photos, and other media.

Australia

  • National Archives of Australia
    National Archives of Australia
    The National Archives of Australia is a body established by the Government of Australia for the purpose of preserving Commonwealth Government records. It is an Executive Agency of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and reports to the Cabinet Secretary, Senator Joe Ludwig.The national...

  • State Records Authority of New South Wales
  • State Records Office of Western Australia
    State Records Office of Western Australia
    The State Records Office of Western Australia is the Western Australian government authority with responsibility for identifying, managing, preserving and providing access to the State's archives...

  • Queensland State Archives
    Queensland State Archives
    The Queensland State Archives is the custodian of the largest and most significant documentary heritage collection in Queensland and the lead agency for public recordkeeping....

  • National Film and Sound Archive
    National Film and Sound Archive
    The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items...

     of Australia

Belgium

  • Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society
    Center for historical research and documentation on war and contemporary society
    The Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society is a Belgian federal research and documentation centre based in Brussels. The institute collects documentation and carries out research on the wars and conflicts of the 20th century and their impact on Belgium...

  • Letterenhuis
  • Mundaneum
    Mundaneum
    The Mundaneum was an institution created in 1910 out of the initiative of two Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as part of their documentation science...

  • Liberal Archive (Belgium)
    Liberal Archive (Belgium)
    The Liberal Archive , located in Ghent, is the central archive of the Belgian liberal organizations, such as the liberal party , the Willemsfonds, the Liberaal Vlaams Verbond and the liberal young guards/Pvv-Jongeren.The Liberal Archive was founded in Ghent in 1982 and was recognised by the Flemish...

  • State Archives in Belgium
    State Archives in Belgium
    The State Archives of Belgium is a Federal scientific institution which is responsible for managing the Belgian archival heritage. The institute provides public services and performs research in the domain of archiving and the institutional history of the Belgium...


Brazil

  • Brazilian National Archives
    Brazilian National Archives
    The Brazilian National Archives were created in 1838 under the name of "Imperial Public Archives". They took their present name in 1911....

  • Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth
    Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth
    Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth is a historical and media archive that is maintained by the Brazilian State University of Campinas , located in the city of Campinas in the state of São Paulo, Brazil...

  • Brazilian Studies Institute (University of São Paulo )

Canada

  • Library and Archives Canada
    Library and Archives Canada
    Library and Archives Canada is a national memory institution dedicated to providing the best possible account of Canadian life through acquiring, preserving and making Canada's documentary heritage accessible for use in the 21st century and beyond...

  • Provincial Archives of Alberta
    Provincial Archives of Alberta
    The Provincial Archives of Alberta is the official archives of the Canadian Province of Alberta. It preserves and makes available for research both private and government records of all media related to Alberta...

  • BC (British Columbia) Archives
  • Manitoba Archives
  • Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
    Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
    Provincial Archives of New Brunswick is the archives agency for the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It is located on the campus of the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada....

  • Archives of Ontario
    Archives of Ontario
    The Archives of Ontario is the provincial archives for the province of Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1903, the archives is located in Toronto....

  • Newfoundland Archives & Museum
    The Rooms
    The Rooms is a cultural facility in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The facility opened in 2005 and houses the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Provincial Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador.On a hill overlooking...

  • Northwest Territories Archives
  • Nunavut Archives
  • Nova Scotia
  • Prince Edward Island
    Public Archives and Records Office (Prince Edward Island)
    The Public Archives and Records Office is the official government archive of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. It is located in the Hon. George Coles Building, 175 Richmond Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada....

  • Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
    Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
    Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is the Crown corporation acting as the provincial library and archives of Quebec...

  • Saskatchewan Archives
  • Yukon Archives


France

  • Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime
  • Defence Historical Service
    Defence Historical Service
    In France, the Defence Historical Service is the archives centre of Ministry of Defence and its armed forces. It was set up by decree in 2005....

  • National archives
    Archives nationales (France)
    The Archives nationales preserve the national archives of the French state, apart from the archives of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as these two ministries have their own archive services, the Service historique de la défense and the Archives diplomatiques...


India

  • National Archives of India
    National Archives of India
    The National Archives of India is a repository of the non-current records of the Government of India and is holding them in trust for the use of administrators and scholars. Originally established as the 'Imperial Record Department' in 1891, in Calcutta, the then capital of British India...

  • National Film Archive of India
    National Film Archive of India
    The National Film Archive of India was established as a media unit of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in February 1964. Its three principal objectives are* To trace, acquire and preserve for posterity the heritage of Indian cinema;...

  • Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
    Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
    The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It was founded on July 6, 1917 to honor the life and work of Dr. Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar , long regarded as the founder of Indology in India...

  • National Aerospace Laboratories

Japan

  • National Archives of Japan
    National Archives of Japan
    The preserve Japanese government documents and historical records and make them available to the public. Although Japan's reverence for its unique history and art is well documented and illustrated by collections of art and documents, there is almost no archivist tradition...

  • Fujiphotos, leading source for photographs of contemporary Japan. Represented by The Image Works.

Mexico

  • Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City
    Mexico City
    Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

  • Archivo Histórico del Distrito Federal
  • Archivo Histórico del Instituto Nacional de Arqueología e Historia
  • Archivo Histórico de Notarías
  • Archivo de Instrumentos Públicos, Guadalajara
    Guadalajara, Jalisco
    Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...

  • Biblioteca Pública del Estado de Jalisco
  • Archivo del Arzobispado de Guadalajara
  • Archivo Histórico de la Provincia Franciscana, Zapopan
    Zapopan
    Zapopan is a city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco, which is part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area. It is best known as being the home of the Virgin of Zapopan, an image of the Virgin Mary which was made in the 16th century. This image has been credited with a number of...

  • Archivo General de Notarías del Estado de Jalisco, Toluca
    Toluca
    Toluca, formally known as Toluca de Lerdo, is the state capital of Mexico State as well as the seat of the Municipality of Toluca. It is the center of a rapidly growing urban area, now the fifth largest in Mexico. It is located west-southwest of Mexico City and only about 40 minutes by car to the...


Netherlands

  • Amsterdam City Archives
    Amsterdam City Archives
    The Amsterdam City Archives preserves documents pertaining to the history of Amsterdam and provides information about the city. With archives covering a shelf-length of about 35 kilometres, the Amsterdam City Archives is the largest municipal archive in the world.-History:In the Middle Ages,...

  • Dutch Institute for War Documentation
  • Expatriate Archive Centre
  • Nationaal Archief
    Nationaal Archief
    The Nationaal Archief is the national archive of the Netherlands, located in The Hague. It houses collections for the central government, the province of Zuid-Holland, and the former County of Holland. There is also material from private institutions and individuals with an association to the Dutch...

  • Spaarnestad Photo
    Spaarnestad Photo
    Spaarnestad Photo is an independent institution located on the Groot Heiligland 47 in Haarlem, in the Netherlands, whose goal is to preserve around 5 million photos. It was founded in 1985. In 2008, the photographic archives of Spaarnestad Photo were included in the Nationaal Archief...


Pakistan

  • National Archives of Pakistan
    National Archives of Pakistan
    The National Archives of Pakistan is a body established by the Government of Pakistan for the purpose of preserving and making available public and private records which have bearings on the history, culture and heritage of Pakistan. Located in Islamabad, the National Archives of Pakistan is a...

  • Punjab Archives, Lahore
    Lahore
    Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

  • Sindh Archives
    Sindh Archives
    The Sindh Archives are the main repository for the provincial government of Sindh, Pakistan. They are located in Karachi.-History:Though the archives were established in 1977, their history dates back to the British era under the authority of Sir Bartle Frere...

    , Karachi
    Karachi
    Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...


Romania

  • National Archives of Romania
    National Archives of Romania
    The National Archives of Romania , until 1996 the State Archives , are the national archives of Romania, headquartered in Bucharest and headed by Dorin Dobrincu since 2007. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform...

  • National Film Archives (ANF)

Russia


Spain

  • Archivo General de Indias
    Archivo General de Indias
    The Archivo General de Indias , housed in Seville, Spain, in the ancient merchants' exchange, the Casa Lonja de Mercaderes, is the document repository of extremely valuable archival documents illustrating the history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and the Philippines...

  • Archivo General de Simancas
    Archivo General de Simancas
    The General Archive of Simancas is an official archive located in the castle of Simancas, province of Valladolid, Spain. It was founded in 1540, making this the first official archive of the Crown of Castile....


Ukraine


United Kingdom

National

  • Library of Congress
    Library of Congress
    The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

  • National Archives and Records Administration
    National Archives and Records Administration
    The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives...

    • Civilian Personnel Records Center
      Civilian Personnel Records Center
      The Civilian Personnel Records Center houses the Official Personnel Folders and Employee Medical Folders of separated United States Federal civilian employees. CPR also houses personnel documents that date back to the mid-nineteenth century, although the bulk of the collection covers the period...

    • Electronic Records Archives
      Electronic Records Archives
      The Electronic Records Archives is an office of the United States National Archives and Records Administration which was officially established in 2000....

    • National Personnel Records Center
      National Personnel Records Center
      The National Personnel Records Center is an agency of the National Archives and Records Administration, created in 1956. It is divided into two large Federal Records Centers located in St...

    • Military Personnel Records Center
      Military Personnel Records Center
      The Military Personnel Records Center located at 9700 Page Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, is a branch of the National Personnel Records Center and is the repository of over 56 million military personnel records and medical records pertaining to retired, discharged, and deceased veterans of...

  • Smithsonian Institution Archives
    Smithsonian Institution
    The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

    • National Anthropological Archives
      National Anthropological Archives
      The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives are a collection of historical and contemporary documents maintained by the Smithsonian Institution, which document the history of anthropology and the world's peoples and cultures...

    • Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
      Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
      The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is housed in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington, D.C., United States.The Ralph Rinzler Archives consist of two major collections...


State

  • Alabama Department of Archives and History
    Alabama Department of Archives and History
    The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Alabama. It was created by an act of the Alabama Legislature on February 27, 1901 with a primary mission of collecting and preserving artifacts relating to the history of the state...

  • California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
    California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
    California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives is an archival institution that houses collections of primary source documents from the history of minority ethnic groups in California...

  • Georgia Archives
    Georgia Archives
    The Georgia Archives is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Georgia. Together with the Georgia Capitol Museum it forms the Georgia Division of Archives and History, part of the office of the Secretary of State of Georgia. It is located in Morrow, Georgia, United States...

  • Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau
    Indiana State Library and Historical Building
    The Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau is a public library building, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, is the largest public library in the state of Indiana housing over 60,000 manuscripts...

  • Louisiana State Archive and Research Library
    Louisiana State Archive and Research Library
    The Louisiana State Archives, established 1956, is the agency under the Secretary of State of Louisiana “designated to fulfill the function of directing a program of collecting, preserving, and making available for use the state's historical records” Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the archives...

  • New York State Archives
    New York State Archives
    The New York State Archives is a unit of the Office of Cultural Education within the New York State Education Department, with its main facility located in the Cultural Education Center on Madison Avenue in Albany, New York, United States...

  • Oregon State Archives
    Oregon State Archives
    The Archives Division of the Office of the Secretary of State of Oregon, or Oregon State Archives, is an agency of the Office of the Oregon Secretary of State charged with preserving and providing access to government records. It also publishes the Oregon Blue Book and Oregon Administrative Rules...

  • Pennsylvania State Archives
    Pennsylvania State Archives
    The Pennsylvania State Archives is the official archive for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, administered as part of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. It is located in the state capitol of Harrisburg and is a part of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex.It was founded in 1903,...

  • Tennessee State Library and Archives
    Tennessee State Library and Archives
    The Tennessee State Library and Archives , established in 1854, currently operates as a unit of the Tennessee Department of State. According to the Tennessee Blue Book, the Library and Archives "collects and preserves books and records of historical, documentary and reference value, and encourages...

  • Texas State Library and Archives
    Texas State Library and Archives Commission
    The Texas State Library and Archives Commission refers to the agency in the state of Texas that is charged with overseeing and assisting with state-wide library programs, meeting the reading-related needs of Texans with disabilities, and finally preserving and providing access to significant Texas...

  • Washington State Digital Archives
    Washington State Digital Archives
    The Washington State Digital Archives are an extensive digitized archive of the U.S. state of Washington. The physical "hub" is on the campus of Eastern Washington University in Cheney, and the archive is available both over the internet and through computers in a local reading room there...

  • Directory of state archives

Others

  • Academy Film Archive
    Academy Film Archive
    The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of motion picture history...

  • American Radio Archive
    American Radio Archive
    The American Radio Archive, established in 1984 by the Thousand Oaks Library Foundation, contains manuscripts, sound recordings, scripts, books, photographs and other materials that vividly reflect the history of radio and radio broadcasting...

  • Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
    Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
    For the Ascending reticular activating system, see Reticular activating systemThe Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism is an encyclopedic collection of archetypal images consisting of photographs of works of art, ritual images, and artifacts of sacred traditions and contemporary art from...

  • Archives of American Art
    Archives of American Art
    The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 16 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C...

  • Archives of the History of American Psychology
    Archives of the History of American Psychology
    The Archives of the History of American Psychology is a large collection of historical papers, instruments, films, photographs, and artifacts located at the University of Akron, in Akron, Ohio.-History:...

  • California Green Archives
    California Green Archives
    The California Green Archives and special collections was formally established in 2000. Its goal is to identify, collect, preserve, and make available records of the Green movement and Green party to green activists, scholars, writers, historians, and journalists, and for posterity...

  • Charles E. Stevens American Atheist Library and Archives
    Charles E. Stevens American Atheist Library and Archives
    Charles E. Stevens American Atheist Library and Archives, also known as CESAALA, is a collection of over 40,000 volumes of books, documents, and various other research tools. It was founded by the American Atheists and currently records oral histories of various intellectuals and lecturers...

  • Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender History
    Gulf Coast Archive and Museum
    The Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender History is an LGBT history organization located in Neartown, Houston, Texas ....

  • GLBT Historical Society‎
  • Harvard Film Archive
    Harvard Film Archive
    The Harvard Film Archive is a film archive devoted to cinema located in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It maintains a collection of over 9000 films and related documents, and regularly screens films in its 210 seat theater...

  • Historic Films Archive
    Historic Films Archive
    Historic Films Archive is a video archive operating from New York. It owns the rights to an extensive collection of television and film footage dating back to 1895.- History :...

  • Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
    Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
    The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies is a collection of GLBT historical materials housed in the Special Collections and Rare Books section of the University of Minnesota Libraries, located underground in the Elmer L. Andersen...

  • Lambda Archives of San Diego
  • Mennonite Church USA Archives
    Mennonite Church USA Archives
    The Mennonite Church USA Archives was founded in 2001 under the denominational merger of the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church...

  • Marquette University Special Collections and University Archives
    Marquette University Special Collections and University Archives
    The mission of the Department of Special Collections and University Archives of Marquette University is to collect, arrange, describe, preserve, and service records of enduring historical value for research, instructional, and administrative use...

  • National African American Archives and Museum
    National African American Archives and Museum
    The National African American Archives and Museum, formerly the Davis Avenue Branch of the Mobile Public Library, is an archive and history museum located in Mobile, Alabama...

  • National Public Broadcasting Archives
    National Public Broadcasting Archives
    The National Public Broadcasting Archives – housed as part of the Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland – preserves the history of American non-commercial broadcasting materials. It is housed at the University of Maryland, College Park in Hornbake Library...

  • National Security Archive
    National Security Archive
    The National Security Archive is a 501 non-governmental, non-profit research and archival institution located in the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. Founded in 1985 by Scott Armstrong, it archives and publishes declassified U.S. government files concerning selected topics of US...

  • New York City Municipal Archives
  • ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
    One National Gay & Lesbian Archives
    ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives is the oldest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBT materials in the world. Since 2010 ONE Archives has been a part of the University of Southern California Libraries. ONE Archives...

  • South Texas Archives and Special Collections
    South Texas Archives and Special Collections
    The South Texas Archives and Special Collections, a division of the James C. Jernigan Library of Texas A&M University–Kingsville, was established to preserve and to make available to the public documentary materials about the history and natural history of South Texas. The Archives are housed in...

  • Southern Historical Collection
    Southern Historical Collection
    The Southern Historical Collection is a repository of distinct archival collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which document the culture and history of the American South...

  • Ukrainian Museum-Archives
  • Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive
    Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive
    The Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive , located in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area is one of only four public archives of theater and other performing arts in the United States. The archive was established in 1991 with the goal of creating and preserving a videotape collection of...

  • Washington University Film & Media Archive
  • Many presidential libraries
    Presidential library
    In the United States, the Presidential library system is a nationwide network of 13 libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration...

     include archives.
  • Many large organizations such as universities
    University
    A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

    , corporation
    Corporation
    A corporation is created under the laws of a state as a separate legal entity that has privileges and liabilities that are distinct from those of its members. There are many different forms of corporations, most of which are used to conduct business. Early corporations were established by charter...

    s, newspaper
    Newspaper
    A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

    s, and so on maintain archives consisting of the papers and records which have been created during the course of the organization's life.

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Uruguay

  • Cinemateca Uruguaya
    Cinemateca Uruguaya
    The Cinemateca Uruguaya is a cinematheque in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1998, it held 11.500 films....

    , Montevideo. Largest film archive of Uruguay, holding 20.000 films


Vatican City

  • Vatican Secret Archives
    Vatican Secret Archives
    The Vatican Secret Archives , located in Vatican City, is the central repository for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See. The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, having primal incumbency until death, owns the archives until the next appointed Papal successor...

  • Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
    Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
    The Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican , commonly referred to as the Archive of the Inquisition , contains the Catholic Church's documents dealing with doctrinal and theological issues related to church...


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