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NEW TIMETABLE FROM 2017
From next January 9th, 2017, as previously announced, the new timetable for the Researchers of the Vatican Secret Archives will be the following:
Monday to Thursday: continuous hours, from 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Friday: continuous hours, from 8:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Saturday: from 8:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.: consultation only (it won’t be possible to order any archival item). The Offices to the Public will be closed.
About the Study rooms
From Monday to Thursday
– from 8:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. the Researcher can order up to 3 archival units.
– If the Researcher gives back the 3 units ordered in the morning and will stay in the Archives in the afternoon too, 2 more archival units could be ordered between 12:30 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Friday
– from 8:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. the Researcher can order up to 3 archival units.
–If the Researcher is certain to study also on Saturday, the previous Friday, between 12:30 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. (not later), 2 more archival units could be ordered for the consultation on Saturday morning (they will be kept in deposit).
Saturday
– Consultation of the inventories (Index room) and/or consultation of the 2 archival units left in deposit the previous Friday. The archival units must be given back by 12:30 p.m.
*** In the afternoon of the days before a holiday (according to the calendar given to the Researchers) the Vatican Archives will follow the timetable shown from Monday to Friday.