National Digital Archives
National archives of Poland
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National Digital Archives (Polish: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, NAC) are the national archives of Poland, collecting and digitising audiovisual materials.[2]
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 Interactive map of National Digital Archives | |
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| Alternative name | Polish: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe |
| Type | State archive |
| Established | March 8, 2008 |
| Director | Piotr Zawilski[1] |
| Website | www |
The NAC is one of three central State Archives (Archiwa Państwowe), other two being Central Archives of Historical Records, and the Archives of Modern Records.[3] The National Digital Archives were established on 28 March 2008 by transforming the Archives of Audiovisual Records (Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej 'Mechanical Documentation Archives') created in 1955.[4][5]
Collection
The NAC's collections include:[6]
- over 15 million photographs taken since the 1940s;
- over 40 thousand sound recordings produced between 1889 and 2008;
- about 2.4 thousand motion picture recordings made between 1928 and 1993;
which are all divided into 159 groups.[7] The whole collection is available for the public through the Archives' reading room, while digitised records are made accessible through the website Szukaj w Archiwach (transl. Search in Archives) run by the NAC.[8][9]