DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Heritage Documentation Centre
The documentary heritage and archaeology collections are distributed on the site of Lyon and Clermont-Ferrand
The Documentation Centre in Lyon gathers a collection of documents specialized in the field of heritage: The areas covered concern the history of art (architecture, sculpture, painting, art objects), industrial heritage, gardens, architecture and urbanism, history, national heritage, regional heritage protected as Historic Monuments, protection and safeguarding measures and an ethnological sector.
Open to professionals and students as well as to a public curious about history and regional archaeology, the documentation center offers a varied documentary set covering all areas of heritage.
Heritage library
It has a library of 9000 books, specializing in Art History, Architecture and Archaeology, with more marked funds for prehistoric and ancient periods.
150 titles of periodicals are available including the main national archaeological journals, but also some foreign titles (Germania, Zephyrus...) as well as several journals of art history and architecture (Monumental Bulletin, VMF, AMC, etc...)
More than 500 academic works on regional topics and a regional library containing numerous publications on the 8 departments of the former Rhône-Alpes are also available.
Regional fund archeological
Archaeological excavation reports concerning the departments: Ain, Ardèche, Drôme, Isère, Loire, Lyon métropole, Rhône, Savoie, Haute-Savoie
8900 archaeological excavation reports are available on site.
Two thirds are digitized and can be consulted via the DRAC’s documentary portal.
Historical monuments fondsc
The Documentation Centre also offers the possibility to consult the protection files, the works files of buildings protected as historic monuments, the files of remarkable heritage sites, buildings labeled remarkable architecture of the departments: Ain, Ardèche, Drôme, Isère, Loire, Lyon metropolis, Rhône, Savoie, Haute-Savoie.
The public also has access to the photographic databases specific to the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (historical monuments, ethnology...).
Come and consult the heritage documentation
Conditions of access: All public, by appointment
In Lyon - DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Le Grenier d'abondance
6, quai Saint-Vincent 69283 Lyon cedex 01
Tel. 04 72 00 44 00
Bus access: Lines 19, 31, C14, 45, 40 Stop Pont Koenig
Metro access: Valmy stop - Vélov station: Pont Koenig
Heritage and Archaeology Fund
Blandine Newly, research officer. Tel. 04.72.00.43.46
Historical monuments file
Michèle Caléro, archivist
Regional Archaeology Fund
Open to professionals and students as well as a curious public, the library of the Regional Archaeological Service (SRA) in Clermont-Ferrand gathers a collection of documents specialized in the archaeological field.
Located at the Hotel de Chazerat, it occupies an area of 45 m².
The general archaeological collection, as well as the specialized collection in the four departments of the former Auvergne (Allier, Cantal, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme), consists of just under 7,000 works. Books and journals from other regions as well as foreign publications are also offered to readers.
302 academic papers, some in digital format, are available. They are also available on DRAC servers. These are part of a collection of numerous publications on the four departments of the former Auvergne.
The library is the only one in the department with such a wealth of documentation on archaeology.
The catalogue of the library is available online
Documentation Detail
- 6,498 specialist works; 425 regional works; CD-Rom; 195 archaeological journals: national, regional and foreign (living series); 302 academic works, some in digital format (available on the DRAC servers) ; Regional scientific reviews, and of the whole of France
Conditions of access and consultation
The reception is by appointment and the consultation is only on site.
The consultation is done during the opening hours of the DRAC, either from Monday to Friday, from 9h to 12h and from 14h to 16h30.
In the case of an upstream search on the online catalog, for the documents you would like to consult, please remember to note the titles and references of the documents, mentioned at the bottom of the complete record. The reception area does not have a computer station.
Archaeological map
The National Archaeological Map “collects and organizes available archaeological data for the entire national territory” (art.L522-5 of the Heritage Code) in the form of a computerised inventory.
It is a tool for research and management of archaeological heritage that is enriched by the results of studies, surveys, diagnostics and excavations carried out with each new operation.
It also includes the zones of presumption of archaeological prescription (ZPPA), the zones within which planning applications must be submitted to the regional archaeological service of the DRAC.
The Regional Archaeological Service maintains a copy of all archaeological operation reports for the region, currently just over 4,810 reports. They are available on request and on site.
Come and consult the heritage documentation
In Clermont-Ferrand - DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Chazerat Hotel
4, Rue Blaise Pascal, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Tel. 04 73 41 27 00
Conditions of access: All public, by appointment
Archaeology library
Isabelle Vedrine, documentation secretary
Tel. 04 73 41 27 71
isabelle.vedrine[@]culture.gouv.fr
Search reports
Archaeological map
Élisabeth Lacoste, Senior Manager
Tel. 04 73 41 27 24
elisabeth.lacoste[@]culture.gouv.fr
Claire Mitton, Lead Manager
Tel. 04 73 41 27 83
claire.mitton[@]culture.gouv.fr