The Finnish Heritage Agency preserves Finland's material cultural heritage: collects, studies and distributes knowledge of it.

The Finnish Heritage Agency
Visiting address: Sturenkatu 2a, Helsinki
Postal address: P.O. Box 913, FI-00101 Helsinki
Telephone exchange +358 295 33 6000 (Mon–Fri 8–16.15)

The Record Office
Open: Monday-Friday 9-15
Visiting address: Sturenkatu 2a
Postal address: P.O. Box 913, FI-00101 Helsinki

Email: kirjaamo@museovirasto.fi
Tel.: 0295 33 6080
Fax: 0295 33 6999

Museokatu 1 (Carriage House). The Carriage House is situated in The National Museum of Finland's park.
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Tel. +358 295 33 6901 Ticket Office
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News

Finnish Heritage Agency

27.09.2023, International Activities, Cultural Heritage, Finnish Heritage Agency, Built Heritage

General notification: consultation on the Hague inventory target list

On behalf of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Finnish Heritage Agency has drawn up an inventory of cultural property in accordance with the Hague...

27.09.2023, International Activities, Finnish Heritage Agency, Built Heritage

General notification: consultation on the Hague inventory target list

On behalf of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Finnish Heritage Agency has drawn up an inventory of cultural property in accordance with the Hague...

29.03.2023, Finnish Heritage Agency

The Finnish Heritage Agency opened a reporting channel for suspected misconduct

The Finnish Heritage Agency has opened a channel where current and former employees, as well as various stakeholders, can confidentially report any misconduct they have observed...

31.03.2021, Museum Sector, Finnish Heritage Agency

The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 created uncertainty for museums but also sparked new ways of working

The coronavirus pandemic has had major effects in the Finnish museum field. Nearly all museums closed their doors in 2020 for periods of various lengths, and...

27.11.2020, Finnish Heritage Agency

Finnish Heritage Agency customer service closed

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the researchers’ hall and research rooms of the the Finnish Heritage Agency’s picture collections, library, archives and the archaeological collections as...

20.05.2020, Finnish Heritage Agency

Services of the Finnish Heritage Agency during the summer

In accordance with the guidelines of the Government 4.5.2020, services of the Finnish Heritage Agency will be opened gradually from 1.6.2020. During this state of emergency,...

01.04.2020, Finnish Heritage Agency

Tiina Merisalo to head the Finnish Heritage Agency

The Government has appointed Museum Director, Master of Arts Tiina Merisalo as the Director General of the Finnish Heritage Agency for the term 1 April 2020–31...

14.02.2020, Finnish Heritage Agency

New Museums Act to take effect on 1 January 2020 – changes to managing cultural environment tasks

According to the reformed Museums Act (314/2019), regional museums replace the current system consisting of regional museums and regional art museums.

05.12.2019, Finnish Heritage Agency, Kansallismuseo

JKMM Architects declared the winner of the architecture competition for the design of an annex to the National Museum of Finland

The Uusi Kansallinen (‘the New National’) architecture competition held this year sought proposals for the design of an annex to the National Museum of Finland. A...