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Closing Days in 2025

Keep an eye on this page when you plan a visit to one of our reading rooms! If we have to close a reading room due to unforeseen circumstances, this will always be announced on the homepage of this website, in the news items and on Facebook.

1st January 2025 New Year's day
21 April 2025 Easter Monday
1st May 2025 Labour Day
29 May 2025 Ascension Day
9 June 2025 Pentecost Monday
21 July 2025 National Holiday
15 August 2025 Our Lady's Ascension
11 November 2025 Armistice
25 December 2025 - 1st January 2026 Annual closure

Closed for Inventorying in 2025

During file audits, our archives are systematically checked to ensure that no gaps have appeared in the various files over the past year. Have documents not been put back incorrectly? Have labels been placed everywhere with information on the whereabouts of the documents (in the reading room, on loan for an exhibition, etc.)? During the file check week, which varies per reading room, extra time is set aside to take a closer look at acquisitions/files that have been received and to place them on the shelves.

Monday 3 to Friday 7 February 2025 National Archives of Belgium
Monday 5 to Friday 9 May 2025 State Archives in Leuven
Monday 16 to Friday 20 June 2025 State Archives in Namur
Monday 8 to Friday 12 September 2025 State Archives in Louvain-la-Neuve
Monday 15 to Friday 19 September 2025 State Archives in Tournai
Monday 22 to Friday 26 September 2025 State Archives in Arlon
Monday 22 to Friday 26 September 2025 State Archives in Kortrijk
Monday 22 to Friday 26 September 2025 State Archives in Liège
Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October 2025 National Archives 2 - Joseph Cuvelier repository
Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October 2025 Archives Service for War Victims
Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October 2025 State Archives in Bruges
Monday 13 to Friday 17 October 2025 State Archives in Antwerp + State Archives in Beveren 
Monday 17 until Friday 21 November 2025 State Archives in Mons
to be determined State Archives in Eupen
to be determined State Archives in Ghent
to be determined State Archives in Brussels
to be determined CegeSoma
to be determined Archives of the Royal Palace
no closure State Archives in Hasselt

Page updated on 13 January

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