Translations:Overzicht professionele bewaarplaatsen/2/en

The various storage and preservation institutions in our country have a certain acquisition profile and typically accept archives that fit within this profile. Can artists or arts organisations simply approach them? In Belgium, there are no theme-specific archives or combined institutions that are aimed purely arts heritage, but arts archives can sometimes fit within a particular archival institution’s profile for socio-philosophical, themed or geographical reasons. For example, a municipal archive may be very interested in an amateur theatre group’s collection in its municipality because it’s a valuable historical source for that municipality's community life. Or an archival institution based on socio-philosophical movements may be interested in an artist’s personal archive thanks to its clear ideological direction. Here, we provide an overview of the different types of storage and preservation institutions that may be suitable for arts archives and collections. We make a distinction between archival and documentation centres, and museums.