Capturing the spirit of design, style and decor of Maltese society was not the goal of this section.  Such a feat requires much more than the space this work can afford.  Furthermore, specialisation from designers, architects and a vast array of other specialists would be needed.  This section highlights the fact that archives hold diverse documentation on church decorations, public monuments and buildings and also all the minute design detail that surrounds us.  The process is one that starts as a conceptual idea in human minds who express it on a medium.  It is often the case that alterations to plans are made in the process from the drawing board to the chisel or paintbrush.  What we see in the artefacts around us or in the photographic record that remained is often not what was originally planed.  And that indeed is one of the strengths of archives.  They hold and capture for posterity the conceptual ideas of the designer.  They also shed light on the skills of local artists and artisans and the representation of their works on the goods we buy and surroundings we inhabit.