Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona

Carrer de Santa Llúcia, 1
Ciutat Vella
08002
Barcelona

http://w110.bcn.cat/portal/site/ArxiuHistoric/


Latitude: 2.1757463
Longitude: 41.3840946



  • Cultural site
  • Accessible to people with reduced mobility
  • Free municipal WiFi


The Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona (AHCB) was originally the institution responsible for the custody, treatment and dissemination of documents generated or received by the city administration since the creation of the municipal government of Barcelona in the middle of the thirteenth century liberal revolution until the mid-nineteenth century. Around this initial core rich, we have been incorporating other archival materials, newspaper archive and records considered relevant to the understanding of the history of the city without chronological limits. The diversified assets generated by this dynamic turns AHCB centers in the country's largest archive of consultation essential to study many aspects of history, not only in Barcelona but also for Catalonia.
The Collections of AHCB are structured into three sections according to the characteristics and type of materials collected:
- The section of Documentary Fund, which preserves documents of an archival and comprises the areas of Medieval and Modern Archives, Graphics and Oral Fund.
- The library section with a major book specializing in the history of Barcelona and Catalonia, enriched with private collections of other topics.
- The section of Newspapers, which includes magazines published in the city since the seventeenth century to the present.
To promote awareness of documentary heritage and history of the city, has AHCB Barcelona History Seminar, which is the preferred organizational framework of activities and publications.
To ensure the protection, preservation and conservation of documents, the archive also has two specific technical services:
- Conservation and Restoration Service, responsible for maintaining the documentation in optimal storage conditions. To this end, this service coordinates, supervises and manages the policies and actions of preservation and restoration of the documents that are necessary.
- The Reprographic Service and New Technologies, responsible for implementing policies reproduction of documents in order to back up and consultation. Moreover, the service is also responsible for establishing strategies for action in relation to the technologies applied to files, especially in everything related to digital playback.
The Archdeacon's House
The headquarters of the AHCB is the result of recasting a set of buildings on a segment of the Roman walls, known as the House of the Archdeacon Lluís Desplà in reference to canon (1444-1524 ) who took care of him and gave him a part of its Gothic-Renaissance appearance. The AHCB occupied the building since its inception in 1920-1924, when the City Council decided to reorganize the municipal archives and segregated funds of old, no administrative value but highly symbolic, to form Archive City History. One of the principal architects and proponents of AHCB been Sanpere Agustin Duran and first director of the institution until 1957. Between 1991 and 1998 carried out a complete renovation of the building that have enabled facilities and modern facilities and appropriate to the needs of consultation, management and preservation of the funds preserved.
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Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona

Carrer de Santa Llúcia, 1
Ciutat Vella / Barri Gòtic
08002 - Barcelona
 http://w110.bcn.cat/portal/site/ArxiuHistoric/
The Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona (AHCB) was originally the institution responsible for the custody, treatment and dissemination of documents generated or received by the city administration since the creation of the municipal government of Barcelona in the middle of the thirteenth century liberal revolution until the mid-nineteenth century. Around this initial core rich, we have been incorporating other archival materials, newspaper archive and records considered relevant to the understanding of the history of the city without chronological limits. The diversified assets generated by this dynamic turns AHCB centers in the country's largest archive of consultation essential to study many aspects of history, not only in Barcelona but also for Catalonia.
The Collections of AHCB are structured into three sections according to the characteristics and type of materials collected:
- The section of Documentary Fund, which preserves documents of an archival and comprises the areas of Medieval and Modern Archives, Graphics and Oral Fund.
- The library section with a major book specializing in the history of Barcelona and Catalonia, enriched with private collections of other topics.
- The section of Newspapers, which includes magazines published in the city since the seventeenth century to the present.
To promote awareness of documentary heritage and history of the city, has AHCB Barcelona History Seminar, which is the preferred organizational framework of activities and publications.
To ensure the protection, preservation and conservation of documents, the archive also has two specific technical services:
- Conservation and Restoration Service, responsible for maintaining the documentation in optimal storage conditions. To this end, this service coordinates, supervises and manages the policies and actions of preservation and restoration of the documents that are necessary.
- The Reprographic Service and New Technologies, responsible for implementing policies reproduction of documents in order to back up and consultation. Moreover, the service is also responsible for establishing strategies for action in relation to the technologies applied to files, especially in everything related to digital playback.
The Archdeacon's House
The headquarters of the AHCB is the result of recasting a set of buildings on a segment of the Roman walls, known as the House of the Archdeacon Lluís Desplà in reference to canon (1444-1524 ) who took care of him and gave him a part of its Gothic-Renaissance appearance. The AHCB occupied the building since its inception in 1920-1924, when the City Council decided to reorganize the municipal archives and segregated funds of old, no administrative value but highly symbolic, to form Archive City History. One of the principal architects and proponents of AHCB been Sanpere Agustin Duran and first director of the institution until 1957. Between 1991 and 1998 carried out a complete renovation of the building that have enabled facilities and modern facilities and appropriate to the needs of consultation, management and preservation of the funds preserved.
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