The Historical Archive of the Argentine Foreign Ministry (AHMRE) is one of the largest fonds within the Federal Public Administration. The Archive primarily preserves the documentary fonds produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship (MRECIC) in the course of its missions and duties, that is, records reflecting the relations between the Argentine Republic and other sovereign states and international organizations in the areas of politics, economics, culture, migration, and religion, dating back to 1810. Moreover, they include records concerning the Ministry’s operations and personnel administration and its diplomatic and consular representations abroad, as well as personal fonds connected with foreign relations.
The overarching goal is to ensure public access to institutional memory, provide a source for historical research, and safeguard the exercise of individual and collective rights. The physical preservation of documents is made possible thanks to the support of the Argentine General Accounting Office, a sub-agency of the Ministry of Economy.
This portal provides online access to descriptions and digital copies of our fonds and collections on a progressive basis. To ensure quality and consistency, AHMRE has adopted the ISAAR and ISAD-G international standards for archival description, implementing them through AtoM (Access to Memory), an open-source web application aligned with the standards of the International Council on Archives (ICA). This involves identifying, classifying and describing every fonds, collection, section, series, and item in accordance with international professional standards.