A History of Scientific Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
The historical archives of the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme consist of administrative archives as well as archives of research and international cooperation programmes.
The archive collection accounts for part of the Foundation's history, which has served as a platform for international cooperation that it has made available to French and foreign researchers and academics since the 1960s. Above all, it allows the study of international networks within the framework of a policy of scientific and logistical support for research. As such, these archives are a trace of the history of scientific research in the human and social sciences and of the "golden age" of French humanities.
The Archives Department collects, preserves, communicates and promotes the data and archival documents produced and received by the Foundation's departments and the research and international cooperation programs it supports.
The collections of researchers or structures linked to research in the humanities and social sciences and entrusted to the FMSH before 2018, have joined the Humathèque of Campus Condorcet.
Accessing the archives
Online
A collection description is accessible in Nabû. It is updated on a regular basis. Nabû is the FMSH's archive search engine. It allows users to search the inventories and directories of the FMSH's archive collections (historical and/or scientific). You will find the dimensions of the documents that can be communicated and you will be able to consult the digitized archives online.
For reasons beyond our control, on-site consultation is temporarily suspended.
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Archival documents listed in the Nabû search engine are available for public consultation, unless otherwise specified. Readers may be refused access on the grounds of the rules of communicability (privacy) such as the poor physical condition of the document.
Places and methods of consultation
Archives can be consulted at the Charenton site.
Address: 18-20 rue Robert Schuman | 94220 Charenton-Le-Pont
Transportation: Metro line 8 Charenton-Écoles - Bus: 24 (stop: Victor Hugo)
How to consult:
During consultation of the archives, only pencil and laptop are authorized for note-taking. It is forbidden to take notes on a document, to make marks or annotations on it, or to trace it.
Readers must ensure that the documents communicated are not damaged, degraded or altered by their own actions or negligence. The order in which the documents appear within each file must be respected.
The reproduction of certain documents is possible within the framework of private copying.
For any use of documents, the source must be mentioned in the following form: FMSH Archives, title of the archival fonds, followed by the call number.
