The Manitoba Museum Archives is organized into fonds, series and files.
Files make up the series, which then make up the fonds.
Comprehensive lists are available, as well as separate subject lists on topics such as Personnel and Programs. The arrangement of the fonds retains the original order of the records, and respects the provenance of the donor. In this way, the Archives preserves the donor's whole collection as it reflects their activities and personality alone. The Series are smaller record groups, or subject categories, which the donor originally created to sort the records by their function. The fonds, or donor's collection, is divided into series for efficiency.