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        <eventDateTime>2013-09-09</eventDateTime>
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        <eventDateTime>2012-03-09</eventDateTime>
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        <agent>Mike Bryant</agent>
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        <agent>Veerle Vanden Daelen</agent>
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        <agent>Matthew Haultain-Gall</agent>
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      <autform xml:lang="eng">Archives de la Ville de Bruxelles / Archief van de Stad Brussel</autform>
      <parform>The Archives of the City of Brussels</parform>
      <parform>Stadsarchief Brussel</parform>
      <parform>Archives of the City of Brussels</parform>
      <parform>ASB-AVB</parform>
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          <geogarea>Europe</geogarea>
          <location localType="postal address">
            <country>Belgium</country>
            <municipalityPostalcode>1000</municipalityPostalcode>
            <street>Rue des Tanneurs / Huidevettersstraat 65</street>
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          <telephone>+32 2 279 53 20</telephone>
          <email href="archives@brucity.be">archives@brucity.be</email>
          <email href="archieven@brucity.be">archieven@brucity.be</email>
          <webpage href="http://www.brussel.be/artdet.cfm/4469">http://www.brussel.be/artdet.cfm/4469</webpage>
          <webpage href="http://archives.bruxelles.be">http://archives.bruxelles.be</webpage>
          <webpage href="http://archieven.brussel.be">http://archieven.brussel.be</webpage>
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              <p xml:lang="eng"><![CDATA[The archives were kept at first in the church St Michel and in the tower of the St. Nicholas church. In the 16th century they were transferred to the City Hall. They then moved again to two different buildings: Spiegel and Boterpot. These buildings were reduced to ruin during the bombardment of Brussels by the troops of Louis XIV in 1695, so destroying a considerable part of the administrative memory of the city.

In spite of this disaster, the City enriched its collections thanks to an acquisition policy implemented by professional historians in the 19th century to whom the City entrusted the management and the administration of the archives.

The main role of the Archives of the City of Brussels is to safeguard the documents produced by the municipal administration of the city since the Middle Ages.]]></p>
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              <p xml:lang="eng"><![CDATA[The Archives of the City of Brussels (ACB) store exclusively the administrative records of the Brussels municipality and those of the adjoining municipalities of Haren, Laeken and Neder-Over-Heembeek. 

The Archives' collections are divided into ten sections and include: the third-largest collection of newspapers and periodicals in Belgium; an iconographic collection of more than 35,000 documents; a large collection of maps and plans; a collection of posters and advertisements of all kinds; and administrative collections from the various services of the City administration, such as charities, religious groups and burials, finances, public education, fine arts and public festivals, police, streets and municipal public works.]]></p>
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            <opening>Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Distribution of documents from 8 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.)

Wednesday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Distribution of documents from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.)

The reading room is closed on Monday, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.

The reading room is close in July and August</opening>
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            <termsOfUse>Documents can only be consulted in the reading room of the Archives of the City of Brussels. Access to the reading room is free, but visitors have to register beforehand and be in possession of an identity card or passport. 

 Documents cannot be requested by phone, email or letter.

Certain documents (those less than one hundred years old and subject to privacy laws) may require authorisation before being consulted. The form to make a request to consult such documents can be found here: 

https://www.bruxelles.be/sites/default/files/bxl/Consultation_FR.pdf

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