The facility is jointly located with the Intermunicipal Archives of Rogaland.
It moved from a basement office at the hospital to the new Norges Bank building in Stavanger in 1964.
The division was made an independent regional state archive in 1970.
The 700 shelf-meters was soon insufficient and the archives had to rent capacity at various locations throughout town.
It moved to the current site at IMI-gården in 1987, where it received a capacity for 7,000 shelf-meters.