The Archives of Macao (; ) is a general

archive An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials, in any medium, or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organ ...

São Lázaro São Lázaro is the smallest civil parish () of Macau, located in the central-east region of the Macau Peninsula. It is surrounded by the parishes of Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Santo António, and Sé. This parish was one of five in the forme ...

Macau Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...

. It collects, processes, protects and make available records pertaining Macau.

History

The Archives of Macao was founded as Macao General Archives (Arquivo Geral de Macau; 澳門總檔案室) on 28 June 1952. In 1979, it was renamed as Historical Archives of Macao (Arquivo Histórico de Macau; 澳門歷史檔案室). In 2016, it was renamed to Archives of Macao.

Architecture

The archive is housed in a mansion with colonial style architecture. It was then restored by the

Government of Macau The Government of the Macao Special Administrative Region, commonly known as the Macao Government, is the Executive_(government), executive authorities of Macau. Formed on 20 December 1999 in accordance with the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declarati ...

Collections

The archive has more than 50,000 files, 70,000 photos and 10,000 publications.

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* 1952 establishments in Macau Archives in China Macau Peninsula Organizations established in 1952 São Lázaro {{Macau-struct-stub

History

Architecture

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