The EMBL Archive captures, preserves and shares records and archival material from across the EMBL’s sites and activities, in analogue and digital formats. As a whole, these holdings bear witness to the Laboratory’s scientific research and institutional activities, and to the history of European molecular biology.
This year EMBL Hamburg turns 50 as an official EMBL site. However, EMBL’s connection to the city goes back further than 1975. In fact, EMBO funded experiments and were taking place in Hamburg half a decade earlier, and an ‘EMBL’ laboratory had already been constructed there before the…
How geography, history, policy, and scientific collaboration helped build a world-class scientific ecosystem. In honour of EMBL Grenoble’s 50th anniversary, the archive is producing articles related to its history, which also feature materials transferred to the archive as part of our anniversary…
As part of our collection drive last year, EMBL Grenoble generously transferred over 1,000 photographs to the archive. To mark the site’s 50th anniversary, we’ve selected one image for each year of EMBL Grenoble’s rich and varied history. These photographs remind us that behind every…
In honour of EMBL Grenoble’s 50th anniversary, we’d like to share some of Jörg Langowski’s photography which beautifully captures the near-decade he spent at EMBL Grenoble. These images were transferred to the archive as part of our collection drive last year. Jörg Langowski was…
2024 was a big year for EMBL. We celebrated our 50th anniversary, as well as the 25th anniversary of the Monterotondo site and the 30th anniversary of the EMBL-EBI site. There are milestones yet to come, with the 50th anniversaries of the Grenoble and Hamburg sites taking place this year.…
The EMBL Archive celebrates the sixth International Archives Week (#IAW2024) and introduces the newly created collection of Fotis Kafatos, EMBL's third Director General.