National Archives of Benin

The National Archives of Benin are in Porto-Novo. The archives were established in 1914.
Services.
The Archives provide the following primary services: 
Activities.
On November 13, 2014, there was a training workshop commemorating the Archives' centenary. The themes were the adoption of ISAD (G) and ISAAR (CPF) standards for archival description and the use of open source archive management software.
On April 3, 2020, Médrique Awangonou published a book on the national archives of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) from 1914 to 2014 on the topic of Human Sciences.
Several archives constitute the acts and actions of the men who have been left for several centuries. The colonial administration had created a service for the archives with the aim of safeguarding administrative documents, here the author insisted on the different periods which left traces in this institution. He said archives play an important role in the development of a nation.