The  Scouting Laboratory is a creation from the Holy Cross of Riaumont which gives to the researchers a vast amount of documents concerning scouting, of all types since the french origins.

"Ora et labora" said the antique maxim of the Benedictine monks. This Scouting Laboratory managed by the monks of Riaumont testifiis a living tradition which is not satisfied to live on the vestiges of the past, but intends to pursue under the conditions of our times this ideal which incarné the founding fathers of the SDF: " to think in a scout way ". Considering their roots, they approach without hang-ups the third millenium.  The Scouting Laboratory accomodates everyone in the spirit of a true scout fraternity. 

The availability relates to in particular files, reviews, works, collections, rare bits, photographs, soundtracks, cinematographic, videographic joined together since the creation of the Village of Riaumont. 

One will note thus that this laboratory has a significantspecialized library including / understanding more than 3.000 scouts works in French including 650 novels (collections " Signs of Track ", " Jamborée ", Campfires ", etc.) and nearly 10.000 reviews of branches connected per complete years. The totality of the " Books Ste Jehanne " and works of Father Doncoeur. The majority of the reviews concerning the catholic Scouting, etc... Many illustrations and original drawings of the illustrator Peter Joubert are also preserved as well as funds relating to personalities of french scouting like Paul Coze, Mgr. John Rupp or Charles Celier.

A museum " Guy de Larigaudie " preserves an astonishing and varied parts energy of the scarf of the " Rover Scout of legend " or shirt constellated with badges of Paul Coze, in modest books of functioning of patrols, while passing by tents, bags, uniforms or staffs of all countries...

All this placed at the disposal, on the spot, to study the history and the life of scouting in various fields and in particular the scientific, artistic or cultural incidences. Average data processing and of photocopy are available to facilitate the work of the researchers who thanks to a hotel trade can place on the spot.

The Scouting Laboratory of Riaumont brings help to the "Patrol of Search and Studies University" (PREU) and in particular to the students carrying out a report of contemporary history, but it is also a platform of meeting exceeding only university search to connect : researchers, collectors, and current experts of the scout method.

The Scouting Laboratory of Riaumont assistance especially voluntarily with multiple work. It already, however, published since 1991 a list of the very many university work completed since fifty yearsconcerning scouting and assistance to its update each year. It has, for example, made the statement of all the articles interesting scouting published in the review " Studies " or collaborated in thedrafting of a lexicon of the various abbreviations and terms of use at the scouts, and the french encyclopedie "Mémoire du Scoutisme".