The Regional Archive of La Selva (ACSE) was created on June 16, 1982, and was officially inaugurated on April 29, 1983.
The first headquarters of the archive was located on the ground floor of the old College of Nuns of the Heart of Mary, located on Ave Maria Street in Santa Coloma de Farners. In the winter of 2005, the Regional Archive moved temporarily to Francesc Camprodon Street, where it remained until March 2015. On March 21 of this year, the new building was inaugurated, located on Sant Dalmau Street, in the old town of Santa Coloma de Farners.
The ACSE has 2,100 linear meters of documentation deposited from the 13th to the 21st century. The municipal collections of Breda, Massanes, Osor, Santa Coloma de Farners, Sant Miquel de Cladells and Vidreres stand out; the notarial collection of the Santa Coloma district; collections of various kinds (Prat, Rovirola, Masoller, Vinyes, Trias, Termes Orion, Agricultural and Forestry Training School, etc.), and the collection of the military clinic no. 5 of the International Brigades. Also noteworthy is the collection of printed matter (more than 8,300 between 1829 and 2015), as well as the photographic collections of Francesc Xavier Aulí and the Oller family (19th-20th centuries). The archive also has a library specializing in regional topics (5,000 registered books) and an auxiliary newspaper library (19th-20th centuries).
