Safeguarding Heritage: Commune of Monaco Signs Agreement with the National Archives

1st row from left to right : Georges MARSAN, Mayor of Monaco and Michaël BLOCHE, Director of the National Archives

2nd  row from left to right : Christine GOIRAN, Deputy Secretary-General of the Town Hall, Camille SVARA, First Deputy Mayor and Béatrice NOVARETTI, Director of Monaco’s Multimedia Library. (Alain Bottaro, Curator responsible for the Heritage Collection of the Multimedia Library and for the Commune’s historical archives, was excused). ©Direction de la Communication - Manuel Vitali

Today, 2 October 2025, Georges Marsan, Mayor of Monaco, and Michaël Bloche, Director of the National Archives, signed an agreement for the deposit of part of the Commune’s heritage archives with the National Archives.

The deposited archives comprise the parish registers of the former parish of Saint-Nicolas (1546–1793), containing baptism, marriage and burial records (the forerunners of civil status registers), as well as archives relating to the Constitution and constitutional bodies (1842–1973). Together, they cover more than four centuries.

This first deposit by the Commune marks the culmination of several years of collaboration between the two institutions, particularly between the Heritage Collection of Monaco’s Multimedia Library and the National Archives, with the constant aim of safeguarding and promoting the Commune’s archival heritage.

It also follows the publication on the National Archives’ online portal, on 16 June this year, of standardised finding aids for the heritage archives held by the Heritage Collection of the Multimedia Library, prepared by the latter, in order to make these valuable archives more widely accessible to the public and to encourage their use for historical research. These comprise both private archive collections and communal public archives.