R-Archive 315 Route de Peney 1242 Geneve-Peney Switzerland Founders Colette & Gunter Ruch Date founded 1980 Approximate number of works Ca. 8,000 mail-works Approximate yearly additions Irregularly (since the nineties reducing of mail-art) Focus Focused on mail-art magazines & books Organization/display methods One room (5x5m.) filled with shelters of booklets, mags, 'zines, records, cassettes, etc. Only books & mags are numbered under countries. Mail, letters, infos are in small packets in another room. Public access R-Archive is private. Public interest comes through special informed people and through some Museum-archives. Approximate yearly cost Relation to larger institutions Some information about mail-art which couldn't be found elsewhere are asked by larger institutions - under others visits by archivists of the "Tate Gallery Archives" (London), "PTT-Museum" (Bern), ""No-Institute (Kassel), "J. Agius Archive" (Geneva) What is your motive for maintaining the archive? Storing of the earlier MA-exchange during the seventies & eighties (90% are exchanged/10% are bought)