Archives are indispensable at keeping track of what is no longer in existence.  To some extent archives management is different from archaeology that is indispensably a destructive science.  Indeed, one can say that the archaeological process enriches archival holdings through the reporting and documentation it produces.  Photographic archives also keep the memory of habits, transport methods, costumes, buildings and traditions that were sentenced to oblivion.  Archives are the guardians of memory and thus preserve even streetscapes and soundscapes that are also intrinsically a part of the collective memory.  At times, our archives preserve plans that never saw the light of the day but were still real, at least in the imagination of the creator and captured on a medium.  In all this our archives are the guardians of memory and bastions against collective amnesia.  The project Memorja run by the National Archives of Malta is at the forefront in capturing audio and visual memories that go beyond the traditional paper record.