 Till 1983, the institution was provisionally situated at Miramar, in Goa.Currently, it is located at Bakibab Borkar Road, Alto Porvorim, Goa.Present for the inauguration in 1979 were Professor P.M. Joshi, the retired director of the Maharashtra Archives, and Dr. José Blanco, then administrator of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon.