The Center has chosen to use new technologies for safeguarding and showcasing its history.

The center collects sometimes badly damaged documents, which have been conserved for years in extreme conditions : stored in cellars or attics, glued on rigid substrates, highly exposed to light … many degrading factors that accelerate the weathering processes and threaten their integrity.

Spread over an area of 2,500 m², there are 7 storage facilities, all secured and protected against fire. The archives are arranged according to their medium and how precious they are.

Each document goes to the room most suitable for its preservation. That means it is preserved in optimum conditions in terms of temperature and remative humidity, according to the recommendations of the Archives de France.

Created in 2010, the board of directors is presided over by Mr. Thierry Peugeot

Turning a tool factory into an archive center involves major renovations. The rehabilitation of the site began in 2006 and was completed in 2010, having respected the spirit of the original buildings.

In the environs of Sochaux, it’s on the oldest PSA Peugeot Citroën industrial site still active. The Terre Blanche factory was created in 1833, near the family windmill where Peugeot’s industrial adventure began.