The Museum (Archives nationales de Paris) presents the history of French state archives with a selection of historical documents that made up the history of France. For example, it shows the last letter written by Marie Antoinette before her beheading and the Edit de Nantes.

Housed in the Hotel de Soubise and opened to the public in 1867, the “Archives nationales” museum was created by Léon de Laborde then general director of the archives of the Empire.