Museum of National Archives, State archive museum in Marais district, France.

The Museum of National Archives occupies the Hôtel de Soubise, a Baroque palace in the Marais rebuilt from 1705 by architect Pierre-Alexis Delamair for François de Rohan-Soubise and Anne de Rohan-Chabot. Its cream stone facade has a pedimented central pavilion, three arched windows above three gated arched doorways, and statues along the roofline. Only the turreted medieval gateway of the 1371 Hôtel de Clisson survives of the earlier building.

The Hôtel de Soubise was rebuilt in 1705 by architect Pierre-Alexis Delamair for François de Rohan-Soubise and Anne de Rohan-Chabot, keeping only the turreted medieval gateway of the 1371 Hôtel de Clisson. In 1808 the state acquired it and Napoleon assigned the building to the Empire Archives. Léon de Laborde, director general of the archives from 1857 to 1868, opened the museum there on 19 July 1867. Renamed Musée de l'Histoire de France in 1939, it took its present name in 2006.

The museum's name changed from musée des Archives to musée de l'Histoire de France in 1939, when Jean Zay inaugurated a contemporary-history section, and it kept that title until 2006. Its displays are drawn from the Archives nationales' own holdings rather than a fixed collection, and the original manuscript of de Gaulle's Appel du 18 juin joined them on 12 June 2025.

The museum is closed on Tuesdays and opens from 10:00 to 17:30 on the other days. The permanent document display on the first floor of the Hôtel de Soubise has been suspended for conservation reasons, so check which temporary exhibition is running before you travel. The medieval turreted gateway of the former Hôtel de Clisson still stands on the street side.

The museum houses an iron vault containing personal documents such as Napoleon's testament and King Louis XVI's journal from different eras. These rare items reveal the private side of powerful historical figures.