The invention is suitable for the technical field of automatic control, and provides an automatic archive management system which comprises a management terminal, an archive mobile robot and an archive cabinet. The management terminal is used for obtaining an archive management instruction, the archive management instruction comprises archive identification information of a target archive, generating a moving route according to the archive identification information, and sending the moving route and the archive identification information to the archive moving robot. The file moving robot arrives at the designated area according to the moving route, searches the position of the target file in the file cabinet according to the file identification information, and moves the target file in/outof the cabinet. According to the archive management system, archives needed by archive adjusting personnel can be automatically taken from the archive cabinet through the archive moving robot. Meanwhile, the archives returned by the archive adjusting personnel can be automatically put back into the archive cabinet, manual labor is greatly saved, and therefore the archive management, archive adjusting and filing efficiency is improved.