The M+ Collection Archives is a repository of valuable primary documents that lends deeper insights into the creative processes of artists and makers within the M+ Collections. Since its founding, M+ has acquired archives in parallel with objects, placing equal importance on both. The museum’s archival holdings are particularly rich in material from the period of the 1960s to the 1990s and include a wide range of items such as artist sketches, design drawings, photographs, and printed and digitised ephemera by artists, architects, and graphic designers from around the world.

Currently, there are ninety fonds in the archives, each containing up to thousands of items. The preservation of the archives is an ongoing process. Catalogued fonds are accessible online and in the Research Centre.

*Newly added on 15 Dec 2023