Archives nationales du monde du travail

What Archives nationales du monde du travail does

The Archives nationales du monde du travail (ANMT) is a French national archive service operating under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture as a "service à compétence nationale," headquartered since 1993 in the historic Motte-Bossut textile factory in Roubaix. Its mission is to preserve and provide public access to archives documenting French economic and professional life, including records from companies, trade unions, professional associations, and labor organizations. The institution serves a heterogeneous user base: academic researchers and genealogists conducting primary-source work, university students in economic and labor history, school groups on pedagogical visits, the general public attending exhibitions, and depositing organizations seeking long-term preservation of their historical records.

ANMT runs a hybrid physical-digital service model anchored by a reservation-only on-site reading room (Salle de lecture) and a digital archive search portal built on eZ Platform with Ligeo Diffusion for archive dissemination. Core offerings include an online archive search platform with free, thematic, and geographic search modes; a specialized library with an online OPAC catalog; in-situ, virtual, and traveling exhibitions; educational workshops and pedagogical dossiers aligned with the French national curriculum; and children's games. Ancillary revenue is generated through document reproduction services (unit-priced scanning and printing with tiered fees by format) and facility rentals for events and film productions.

As a government cultural institution, ANMT is not commercially funded; operations are sustained by public budget allocations under the Ministry of Culture. Outreach is multi-channel: the official website, active social media (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, X), a monthly newsletter, academic conferences, and participation in the Services publics+ public-service quality program. Visitor satisfaction surveys have measured 85.3%-99% satisfaction between 2018 and 2025. Partnerships include academic institutions (Université de Lille IRHIS, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France CRISS, École nationale des chartes), Emmaüs International, and the interministerial Service interministériel des archives de France (SIAF).

Name

Archives nationales du monde du travail

Legal name

Archives nationales du monde du travail

Website

https://archives-nationales-travail.culture.gouv.fr

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Archives nationales du monde du travail is a French national archive service under the Ministry of Culture that preserves records of French economic and professional life, serving researchers, genealogists, students, and the general public from its Roubaix headquarters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Cultural Archives Services

NAICS

Libraries and Archives (519210), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192), Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712)

SIC

Public Warehousing & Storage (4220)

akta.pro primary industry

National Archives, Records & Information Governance (BPAIAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Archives, Special Collections & Preservation Operations (Rare Materials, Conservation) (EDAEAGAJ), Libraries, Archives & Special Collections (BPAGAHAF), Cultural Heritage Institutions (Archives, Historic Houses, Monuments Foundations) (THAJADAI)

Keywords

• Archival services
• Digital archive access
• Historical preservation
• Labor history research
• Public cultural archives

Headquarters

HQ city

Roubaix

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Others

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The Archives nationales du monde du travail (ANMT) is the French national archive service dedicated to preserving and providing access to records documenting economic and professional life in France. Housed in the historic Motte-Bossut textile factory in Roubaix, it collects archives from companies, trade unions, professional associations, and individual actors, then makes them available through an on-site reading room, an online inventory search platform, digitized document access, exhibitions, educational workshops, and document reproduction services. The institution also rents its auditorium and event spaces to external organizers and productions.

Product overview

The Archives nationales du monde du travail (ANMT) is a French national archive service dedicated to preserving and providing access to records related to the world of work, located in the historic Motte-Bossut factory in Roubaix. ANMT offers a unified service centered on archival access through its reading room and online archives portal. The core offerings include physical and digital archive access via 'Archives en ligne' and inventory search tools, supplemented by public programming including in-situ and virtual exhibitions (Expositions), educational workshops (Ateliers), and games for children. ANMT also provides facility rental for events and a document reproduction service. The institution operates as a service à compétence nationale under the French Ministry of Culture, with no commercial product divisions or modular platform architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Archives en ligne (Online Archives)
• Recherche dans les inventaires (Inventory Search)
• Salle de lecture (Reading Room)
• Bibliothèque (Specialized Library)
• Expositions In Situ (In-Situ Exhibitions)
• Expositions Virtuelles (Virtual Exhibitions)
• Expositions Itinérantes (Traveling Exhibitions)
• Ateliers pédagogiques (Educational Workshops)
• Visites guidées (Guided Tours)
• Dossiers pédagogiques (Pedagogical Packs)
• Location d'espaces et tournages (Space Rental and Filming)
• Dépôt et don d'archives (Archive Deposit and Donation)
• Service de reproduction (Reproduction Service)

Quantifiable outcome

• 92.8% visitor satisfaction rate (2021 survey)
• +1 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Travail & cultureminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a partner organization. Travail & culture is a French association dedicated to promoting access to culture in workplace settings, aligning with ANMT's mission to document labor history.
• ProscitecminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a partner organization. Proscitec is an association that may collaborate on professional and technical heritage preservation.
• Université d'Artois - Master Expographie-MuséographieminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership with the University of Artois for museum and exhibition studies, supporting ANMT's exhibition and mediation activities.
• Emmaüs InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on archiving Emmaüs International's history and memory. Featured in joint study day on 'Work and Poverty' with presentation by Emmaüs representatives on contemporary poverty alleviation models.
• Université de Lille (IRHIS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity of Lille's Institute for the History of the Present and Past (IRHIS) collaborated on the Bertrand Gille conference program, supporting academic research and archival studies.
• Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France (CRISS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership with UPHF's research center supporting the Bertrand Gille commemorative conference program.
• École nationale des chartescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrestigious French graduate school specializing in archival and library studies, under whose patronage the Bertrand Gille conference program was placed for its 200th anniversary.
• Service interministériel des archives de France (SIAF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe interministerial archive service commissioned a public audience study for ANMT and coordinates national archive policy.
• Office du tourisme de RoubaixminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTourism office serves as a referral source directing visitors to ANMT exhibitions, accounting for 15% of first-time visitors.
• Archives de FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational archive portal network connecting all French archive services, providing coordinated access and sharing best practices.
• FranceArchivescoreTechnology or IntegrationNational portal for French archives providing unified search and access to ANMT collections alongside other French archive services.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Archives nationales (France): France's central national archive service under the same Ministry of Culture; ANMT operates as a specialized service within this broader national archive system, sharing mandate, governance, and digital infrastructure.
• International Institute of Social History (IISH / IISG): Amsterdam-based international archive and research institute focused on labor movements, social history, and economic history — the closest international functional peer to ANMT's specialization in workplace and economic archives.
• Musée social / Centre d'études sociales (CES): Paris-based historical institution dedicated to social and labor history in France; shares ANMT's thematic focus on workplace, social, and labor heritage and overlapping researcher audiences.

Broad incumbents

• Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives): Germany's federal archive, comparable in role as a national government archive with a public mandate to preserve economic and social history; provides a peer benchmark on digital access and educational programming at scale.
• U.S. National Archives (NARA): U.S. national archive agency; broadly comparable public-mandate archive with research-room operations, digitization programs, and public exhibitions, though covering a much larger scope than ANMT.
• Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF): France's national library and a sister institution under the Ministry of Culture; overlapping stewardship of historical documentary heritage and integrated with ANMT via Gallica for cross-collection research.
• Smithsonian Institution Archives: Archival arm of the Smithsonian, preserving institutional and broader historical records with public exhibitions and educational programming — comparable in combining archives, exhibitions, and education.
• The National Archives (UK): UK government national archive holding economic, labor, and social records; broadly comparable as a national-level archival service with public-researcher access and digitization programs.

Emerging players

• Europeana: EU-funded digital platform aggregating digitized cultural heritage from European archives, libraries, and museums; relevant as an emerging digital distribution channel that increasingly competes for user attention in cultural-heritage research.

Regional players

• Archives départementales du Nord: Departmental archives for the Nord region, geographically co-located with ANMT in Hauts-de-France; shares archival mission, public-service audience, and overlapping source community for labor/economic history.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ANMT_fr
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCdKqeOO25zbaJJXa3RtzF4A?view_as=subscriber
• Facebookfacebook.com/ArchivesNatTravail
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/archives-nationales-du-monde-du-travail
• Instagraminstagram.com/anmt_fr

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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