The doors will remain closed. The Museum of the National Archives, housed at the Hôtel de Soubise in the Marais district of Paris, will be closed on Saturday, October 24, 2026, according to an alert posted on the institution’s official website. The closure comes amid demonstrations announced in the capital. Visitors planning to head to 60 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, in the 3rd arrondissement, will therefore have to postpone their museum visit.
The measure extends beyond the exhibition galleries: it also affects the CARAN, the Paris reading room, and the Pierrefitte-sur-Seine site in Seine-Saint-Denis. People wishing to consult archives are therefore affected as well. However, the institution does not give any reason for the decision in its message. Meanwhile, the City of Paris is urging vigilance and announcing several preventive measures in public spaces ahead of Saturday, following the violence and damage over the previous weekend.
The closure notably interrupts access to the free exhibition "The Cassini Map of France: An Encyclopedia of the Territory", scheduled to run from October 14, 2026, to February 1, 2027. Dedicated to this 18th-century cartographic undertaking, it looks back at the methods and documents that made it possible to map French territory. Another change to note: the conference "Mapping the Kingdom of France, 17th–18th Centuries: Instruments and Methods," originally scheduled for October 24, is listed as postponed on the exhibition’s official page.
For those considering postponing their visit until the following day, the National Archives have also announced special opening hours: on Sunday, October 25, 2026, the museum and gardens at the Paris site will close at 6 p.m. This is worth keeping in mind before planning your Sunday in the Marais, and checking the institution’s latest announcements before setting off.
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Archives Nationales - Paris site
60 Rue des Francs Bourgeois
75003 Paris 3
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www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr
