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The documentation generated by the Canarian inquisitorial district over its more than three centuries of long historical trajectory is preserved in the Scientific Society The Canary Museum (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) since the beginning of the twentieth century, constituting one of the most complete district inquisitorial archives of those existing in the Hispanic geography. He entered the Canary Museum in a disorganized way, presenting, in addition, his files, books and files a fragmentation that made his consultation complex. In the 1930s there was the first attempt to organize this large documentary volume. However, it was not until 2000 that a comprehensive management and reconstruction project of the fund was launched, for which historical inquisitorial sources have been used, in order to know how the Archives archive was managed and organized while the institution was active. The result of this process, still in the process of completion, has been multiple: organization of the documentary ensemble returning its original image; design of a classification table vertebrate by the functions developed by the Tribunal;  description of the documents at the background level, section, series and documentary unit, catalogue the latter partially accessible through the website of The Canary Museum; digitization of documentation; and, adoption of preventive conservation measures.