The article aims to show the memorial value and the sociocultural contribution of the Arquivo do Laboratório Eugênio Veiga, of the Cúria Metropolitana of Salvador. It is characterized as a descriptive and records research using a qualitative approach. From the analysis of data collected in interviews and documents, it concludes that the archive has relevance in the memorialistic formation of Bahia, and also in providing users with access to records full of evidentiary and legal value.
Keywords: ecclesiastical archive; memory; archival science; Laboratório Eugênio Veiga.