The Arquivo Distrital de Castelo Branco is a regional archive, working as a flexible organic unit of the Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas (DGLAB).
It aims to promote the safeguarding, enhancement, publicizing, access and enjoyment of the archival heritage of the Castelo Branco district, and to guarantee the rights of the State and the citizens embodied in them, its use as an administrative activity resource and foundation for the collective and individual memory.