diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index f6592f82215..8214e57aaa7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ v 8.0.0 (unreleased)
   - Better performance for web editor (switched from satellites to rugged)
   - Faster merge
   - Ability to fetch merge requests from refs/merge-requests/:id
+  - Allow displaying of archived projects in the admin interface (Artem Sidorenko)
 
 v 7.14.0 (unreleased)
   - Update default robots.txt rules to disallow crawling of irrelevant pages (Ben Bodenmiller)
diff --git a/app/controllers/admin/projects_controller.rb b/app/controllers/admin/projects_controller.rb
index da5f5bb83fa..ae1de06b983 100644
--- a/app/controllers/admin/projects_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/admin/projects_controller.rb
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ class Admin::ProjectsController < Admin::ApplicationController
     @projects = @projects.where("visibility_level IN (?)", params[:visibility_levels]) if params[:visibility_levels].present?
     @projects = @projects.with_push if params[:with_push].present?
     @projects = @projects.abandoned if params[:abandoned].present?
+    @projects = @projects.non_archived unless params[:with_archived].present?
     @projects = @projects.search(params[:name]) if params[:name].present?
     @projects = @projects.sort(@sort = params[:sort])
     @projects = @projects.includes(:namespace).order("namespaces.path, projects.name ASC").page(params[:page]).per(PER_PAGE)
diff --git a/app/controllers/explore/projects_controller.rb b/app/controllers/explore/projects_controller.rb
index e9bcb44f6b3..6c733c1ae4d 100644
--- a/app/controllers/explore/projects_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/explore/projects_controller.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ class Explore::ProjectsController < Explore::ApplicationController
     @tags = @projects.tags_on(:tags)
     @projects = @projects.tagged_with(params[:tag]) if params[:tag].present?
     @projects = @projects.where(visibility_level: params[:visibility_level]) if params[:visibility_level].present?
+    @projects = @projects.non_archived
     @projects = @projects.search(params[:search]) if params[:search].present?
     @projects = @projects.sort(@sort = params[:sort])
     @projects = @projects.includes(:namespace).page(params[:page]).per(PER_PAGE)
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ class Explore::ProjectsController < Explore::ApplicationController
 
   def trending
     @trending_projects = TrendingProjectsFinder.new.execute(current_user)
+    @trending_projects = @trending_projects.non_archived
     @trending_projects = @trending_projects.page(params[:page]).per(PER_PAGE)
   end
 
diff --git a/app/models/project.rb b/app/models/project.rb
index 4628f478ca6..69f9af91c51 100644
--- a/app/models/project.rb
+++ b/app/models/project.rb
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
     end
 
     def search(query)
-      joins(:namespace).where('projects.archived = ?', false).
+      joins(:namespace).
         where('LOWER(projects.name) LIKE :query OR
               LOWER(projects.path) LIKE :query OR
               LOWER(namespaces.name) LIKE :query OR
diff --git a/app/views/admin/projects/index.html.haml b/app/views/admin/projects/index.html.haml
index f43d46356fa..e8aefbda25b 100644
--- a/app/views/admin/projects/index.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/admin/projects/index.html.haml
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
             = label_tag :abandoned do
               = check_box_tag :abandoned, 1, params[:abandoned]
               %span No activity over 6 month
+          .checkbox
+            = label_tag :with_archived do
+              = check_box_tag :with_archived, 1, params[:with_archived]
+              %span Show archived projects
 
         %fieldset
           %strong Visibility level: