Regional State Archives in Kongsberg ( no, Statsarkivet i Kongsberg) is a regional state

archive An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or ...

s situated in

Kongsberg Kongsberg () is a historical mining town and municipality in Buskerud, Viken county, Norway. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. Kongsberg has been a centre of silver mining, arms production ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. Part of the

National Archival Services of Norway The National Archival Services of Norway ( no, Arkivverket) is a Norwegian government agency that is responsible for keeping state archives, conducts control of public archiving and works to preserve private archives. It is subordinate to the Mi ...

, it is responsible for archiving documents from state institutions in the

counties A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

Buskerud Buskerud () is a former county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Ha ...

Telemark Telemark is a traditional region, a former county, and a current electoral district in southern Norway. In 2020, Telemark merged with the former county of Vestfold to form the county of Vestfold og Telemark. Telemark borders the traditional ...

and

Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered t ...

. The agency is the youngest regional state archive, opening in 1994. Prior to this, documents from the three counties were stored at the

Regional State Archives in Oslo The Regional State Archives in Oslo ( no, Statsarkivet i Oslo) is a regional state archives situated at Sognsvann in Oslo, Norway. Part of the National Archival Services of Norway, it is responsible for archiving documents from state institutions ...

. The archive has about 14 shelf-kilometers of material.

Intermunicipal Archives of Buskerud, Vestfold and Telemark The Intermunicipal Archives of Buskerud, Vestfold and Telemark ( no, Interkommunalt arkiv for Buskerud, Vestfold og Telemark IKS), commonly abbreviated IKA Kongsberg, is an archives institution situated in Kongsberg Kongsberg () is a historical ...

moved to an adjoining building in 2014, allowing the two to share a common reading room and conservation facilities.

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{{Authority control National Archival Services of Norway Organisations based in Kongsberg 1994 establishments in Norway Government agencies established in 1994