Paris

The National Maritime Museum provides teachers, students, researchers, professionals and others with a wide range of library services in the field of maritime history, the five marine categories (military, trade, fishing, leisure and scientific research) and naval medicine.

Research enquiries

A permanent staff of librarians supplies requested documents and assists with locating titles. Readers may also use the available resources to access information themselves:

- Manual index (search by author, title or subject for works acquired before 1980)
- Computer index (search by author, title or subject for works acquired after 1980)
- List of documentary files.
- Periodicals index
- Thematic bibliographies

Times and access

The reading room is open to the public by appointment on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9.30 a.m. to 5.15 p.m. It is closed during the Christmas and Easter school holidays and in August.

All documents can be consulted in the reading room, with 1,500 on open access. The reading room is entered via the Conservation door at the far end of the building, through the Trocadéro gardens.

A photocopier is available for reproducing books, periodicals and documentary files, unless they are too fragile. Users are required to respect intellectual property rights.
- €0.15 for A4 format
- €0.30 for A3 format

A 50% discount is granted to students on presentation of a valid student card.

Requests can be made to the librarians by e-mail.

However, before writing we recommend that you use the search engine: the information you're looking for may be available on this site.

E-mail : documentation@musee-marine.fr

Musée national de la Marine

Palais de Chaillot
17, place du Trocadéro
75116 Paris

- Phone : 01 53 65 81 69
- Fax : 01 53 65 69 42
- E-mail : documentation@musee-marine.fr