The Academy Archives
The Archives
are a specialised department of the Academy. Their role is to
collect, house, process, protect and make available archive
materials produced by scientific, scholarly and artistic
institutions, by the Academy or its individual members or by other
individuals whose work is relevant to the sciences and arts in
Macedonia
The work of
the Archives is carried out under the supervision of the
Archives Committee comprised of representatives of the Academy's
Departments and Research Centres. The remit of the Archives
encompasses the entire territory of the
Republic of Macedonia. The Academy Archives are the
only independent Archives apart from the official archives of the Republic of Macedonia.
The Archives
obtain materials by means of cession, bequest, gift, purchase and
deposit and on other legal grounds but always under the supervision
and recommendation of the Commission for Examination and Evaluation
of Archive Materials.
The Academy
Archives are at the moment in charge of 110 individual holdings, the
original Academy Archive of 1967, 15 collections and 15 projects.
The oldest
fragment held is an Old Slavonic document dating from the 14th
century whereas the main body of material dates from the 19th and
20th centuries. The Archives hold materials on the subjects of
History, Literature, Ethnology, Folklore, Linguistics, Visual Arts,
Architecture, Music, Law, the Economy, Medicine, Heraldry, Biology,
etc. The documents and manuscripts are in a number of languages:
Macedonian, Old Slavonic, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek,
Turkish, French, English, etc.
The Archives
have a library of more than 75,000 books, as well as 120
contemporary manuscripts, 321 rare books, 183 microfilms, 81
magnetic tapes, 210 video-cassettes, 125 charters, 140 plaques, 250
musical manuscripts, 122 individual archive documents, a collection
of more than 12,000 photographs and a collection of 280 paintings
and sculptures
