The Center for History of Science at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is an infrastructure organisation that runs the Academy archives, including personal archives and the Academy’s Nobel archives as well as a collection of scientific instruments and an observatory museum. We have recently designed a – by our standards – large program with the overall goal to strengthen the history of science community in Sweden. The research program – Science and modernization in Sweden: An institutional approach to historicizing the knowledge society – has been funded and it is centred on the history of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. The program will be coordinated from the Center, but the research will be done mostly at the universities. The presentation discuss how the interaction between the historians and the archivists did (or did not) play a role in the design of the final program.