The Regional State Archives in Stavanger () is a regional state

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s situated in

Stavanger Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the ...

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. Part of the

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, it is responsible for archiving documents from state institutions in the

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—the only regional state archive to cover only a single county. The facility is jointly located with the Intermunicipal Archives of Rogaland. The collection includes 15 shelf-kilometers of material. State archive documents from Rogaland were originally stored at the Regional State Archives in Bergen. A branch of this opened at Stavanger Hospital in 1949, after which most of the material was moved. It moved from a basement office at the hospital to the new

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building in Stavanger in 1964. The division was made an independent regional state archive in 1970. The 700 shelf-meters was soon insufficient and the archives had to rent capacity at various locations throughout town. It moved to the current site at IMI-gården in 1987, where it received a capacity for 7,000 shelf-meters. This was increased to 12,000 in 2002 and 15,500 in 2008. IKA Rogaland has been co-located since 2002.

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{{Authority control National Archival Services of Norway Organisations based in Stavanger 1949 establishments in Norway Government agencies established in 1949