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Reading rooms opening hours: Maison Jean-Vilar

Open every day
  • except Sunday and Monday
  • except public holidays:
    • 1 January
    • 1 and 8 May
    • Ascension Thursday (29 may 2014)
    • 14 July
    • 15 August
    • 1 and 11 November
    • 25 December

Annual closures: from Sunday 29 July to Monday 3 September 2012 inclusive, and from Sunday 23 December 2012 to Tuesday 7January 2013 inclusive.

Maison Jean-Vilar is open from Monday to Friday from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 a.m. and from 1.30pm to 5.00pm. On Saturday, it is open from 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m..

The library is opened free of charge during the afternoon and on Saturdays. Appointments possible  in the morning.

Documents from closed stack collections (Research library), must be requested at least one hour before the reading rooms close.

To be noted

The Maison Jean Vilar is open daily during the Avignon festival, from Saturday 6 to Friday 26 July 2013.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013