Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
This article aims to present the main characteristics of the Arquivo Nacional under the management of Eugênio Vilhena de Moraes, in the Estado Novo (1938-1945), a period in which the institution, in addition to internally mirroring part of the centralizing practices of the Vargas government, was also called upon to serve two faces of the new-state nation project: the modernization of the public administration and the exaltation of the nation.
