View a webcast of a special event: "Tribute to Oscar Niemeyer and the Board of Design celebration at the United Nations Headquarters".

Explore our exhibition:

“Oscar Niemeyer and the United Nations Headquarters (1947-1949)”.
 

Visit our
Exhibition on the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA)
and learn more about its achievements with the collaboration of people of South Korea in the 1950's.

 

Capital Master Plan: UN Offices Move back to the Secretariat. UN offices need to manage records in preparation for the move to the Secretariat building this year. ARMS is assisting all staff through departmental records management Focal Points.

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  visited ARMS in 2010.  He expressed appreciation to staff whose work is not in the spotlight, but is nonetheless critical to the functioning of the Organisation.

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"I have no doubt that 40 years from now we shall be engaged in the same pursuit. How could we expect otherwise? World organization is still a new adventure in human history."
Dag Hammarskjöld, 20 May 1956.

Consult the archives of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld

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"The United Nations is proud to take an active part in preserving our common heritage. Since 1945, we have documented a story of our times in writing, in photographs, in sound recordings and in video."

Ban Ki-moon, May 2010.

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Welcome

The United Nations Archives and Records Management Section (ARMS) ensures that the records documenting the history of the United Nations are preserved and accessible to all.

In addition, the Section provides support for good and accountable record-keeping in the Organisation through policies and standards, outreach and training programmes.

This website brings together into a single location information about the United Nations archives collections and services with resources and tools to support records management programmes.

"Protecting the Present, Preserving for the Future"

News

Oscar Niemeyer and the Board of Design
24 Apr 2013
A tribute to Oscar Niemeyer and the Board of Design on Wednesday 24 April 2013.
Interview with former UN official Brian Urquhart
28 Feb 2013
Sir Brian Urquhart, who celebrates his 94th birthday in February, is a living chronicle of a large chunk of 20th century history.
Oscar Niemeyer and the United Nations Headquarters (1947-1949)
11 Dec 2012
ARMS pays tribute to one of the most audacious architects of his time with an exhibition showing several photographs, aerial views of New York and graphic renderings.
UNKRA Online Exhibition
12 Sep 2012
The exhibition shows historic photographs of the work of the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (1950-1960) that intervened after the Korean War.
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Photo Gallery

100-ton Baldwin locomotive being unloaded at the Chang Wah Pang Railway Wharf near Woosung, one of 268 heavy steam engines for China's railways, imported by UNRRA CNRRA / 605 Hongkong [ie Shanghai?], China -- August 1947 Photo by Wipperman