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

The Finnish Heritage Agency
Visiting address: Hakaniemenranta 6, Helsinki
Postal address: P.O. Box 913, FI-00101 Helsinki
Telephone exchange +358 295 33 6000 (Mon–Fri 8–16.15)

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The service point is open from Monday to Thursday from 9am to 3pm.
The telephone service is open on weekdays from 9 to 11.30.
At other times, please contact by e-mail.

Visiting address: Hakaniemenranta 6
Postal address: P.O. Box 913, FI-00101 Helsinki

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

  • Collection and Information Services
    • Customer service
      • Material order form
      • ​Application form for the use of materials
      • Thank you for your order!
      • Thank you for your application!
    • The Archives
      • Customer service
        • Material indices of the Archives
      • Archives history
      • Archived materials
        • Administrative materials
        • Archaeological materials
        • Materials related to the built environment
        • Ethnological materials
        • Other materials
    • Archaeological collections
      • Customer service
      • Loaning archaeological artefacts for exhibition purposes
      • Research of archaeological artefacts
      • What should I do if I find an antiquity?
    • The Picture Collections
      • What's on
        • Kamera-magazine articles 2023
          • Early 20th century Helsinki in photographs
          • At Alvar Aalto's home studio
          • István Rácz (1908–1998) – a camera on the move
          • The unknown photographer
          • New perspectives by U T Sirelius
          • When death came to Samara
        • Articles in Kamera magazine 2022
          • A fish story
          • A nation of volunteers
          • Case Jussi Laisaari
          • Citizens!
          • ‘Have your picture taken in good company’
          • Indestructible, destructible plastic
          • An end to an argument over a statue
          • Meeting with miners
          • Focusing on people
        • Articles in Kamera magazine 2021
          • Hi-res photos of Finnish Heritage Agency made freely available
          • Young heroes
          • Princes in the Kingdom of Hartola in 1988
          • Local photos
          • In the lands of the Mansi
          • Two happy fairytale princes
          • Lazy kates from around Finland
          • A total work of art
          • Cats as family members
        • Articles in Kamera magazine 2020
          • Snapshot of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission’s (FELM) photo collection
          • Little Pietari’s town
          • Photos from here and there
          • Have a drink and you’re there
          • On a roadless road
          • Seeking the real-life Nancy Drew
          • The era of the Count
          • From the outskirts of Helsinki to global circular economy
          • Recording modern times
        • Articles in Kamera magazine 2019
          • A hunting party on spring ice
          • Organic travels in Lapland
          • Conflicts in Karelia
          • Such vigour, such passion!
          • Zoom in on Kekkonen
          • Finnish film in the 1950s
          • The travels of a village photographer
          • Endlich, at last!
          • The fair lady from Viena
        • Articles in Kamera magazine 2018
          • Border photography from the Gulf of Finland to the Arctic Ocean
          • A Finnish Tragedy
          • A presidential election à la America
          • From driver to photographer
          • Transforming Helsinki
          • Through the eyes of an ethnologist
          • Miniskirts and marijuana
          • The news photo that does not exist
          • Wartime excursions to the song lands of the Kalevala
        • Articles in Kamera magazine 2017
          • Witnessing the antics of a daredevil reporter
          • Aviation history in colour
          • The quiet trance
          • A portray of family Pietinen
          • Endless enjoyment from rock!
          • The Public and the Hidden Finland
          • How to Approach a Monument?
          • War Through the Eyes of a Hungarian Photographer
          • The War-Time Through the Eyes of Women
        • Articles in Kamera magazine 2016
          • Sakari Pälsi and the Canadian Finns
          • Ahti Rytkönen and the people of chimneyless cabins
          • The countryside between the past and the future
          • Staged trial
          • Studio photographs from the 1870s in digital form
          • Voyage to the lost land
          • The Helsinki Metro with its many twists and turns
          • From printing plate to press photo
          • A peasant’s life
        • Articles in Kamera magazine 2015
          • Light up the underpants
          • Tyyni Vahter photographed women’s work
          • Coloured daguerreotypes
          • True lies
          • Kotka Maritime Festival 30 years ago
          • Three sweltering days in Helsinki
          • Personal studies by the pioneers of colour photography
          • The magic of colours from a hundred years ago
          • Leaving for a new beginning
        • Articles in Kamera magazine 2014
          • Foreign Minister Väinö Tanner and the terms of peace for the Winter War
          • The landscape captures attention
          • The general and the bear
          • Lifestyle entrepreneur Johan Venninen
          • Goodbyes at the start of World War I
          • Atomic train on its way to the east
          • A view into the wilds of Siberia
          • People and urban landscapes
      • Customer service
        • Indices
        • Picture loans
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        • Photographic services price list
      • Collections
        • Historical Picture Collection
        • Press Photo Archive JOKA
          • JOKA – News
            • The Press Photo Archive JOKA write about press photos
          • JOKA – What is JOKA?
          • JOKA – Collections
            • Maaseudun Tulevaisuus
            • Kari Pulkkinen
            • UA Saarinen
            • Lauri Sorvoja
            • Kaleva
            • Helge Heinonen
            • Pressfoto Zeeland
            • Matti Tapola
            • V. K. Hietanen
            • Uusi Suomi – Iltalehti
            • Itä-Häme
            • Markku Lepola
            • Otavamedia
            • Hannu Lindroos
          • JOKA – Contact information
        • Ethnographic Picture Collection
        • Architectural History Collection
        • Finno-Ugric Picture Collection
        • The Finnish Maritime Museum’s Picture Collection
        • Ethnographic Collection
    • Archaeological Field Services
      • Trial Excavation Team
      • Contract archaeology
    • Library
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  • Museum Sector Development
    • About Finnish Museums
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    • Expert Services
      • Advice and Guidance
    • Tools and Networks
      • Museum Evaluation and Peer Development
      • TAKO
      • Follow-up project for the coordination and governance of cultural heritage and tourism
    • Projects
      • AI in the Service of Cultural Heritage
  • The cultural environment
    • Tasks and Cooperation of the Cultural Environment Services Department
      • Museums with regional responsibility, their tasks and areas of operation
    • Archaeological cultural heritage
      • Protecting the archaeological cultural heritage
        • Land use and the archaeological entities
        • Town planning and the archaeological cultural heritage
        • Forest use and archaeological cultural heritage
        • Reforming the Antiquities Act
        • Verifying an ancient relic and the boundaries of the related protected area
        • Permits to interfere with an ancient monument
      • Studying archaeological cultural heritage
        • Research permits for ancient relics
        • Commissoning archaeological fieldwork
        • Quality instructions on archaeological fieldwork
      • Maintaining the archaeological cultural heritage
      • Underwater Cultural Heritage in Finland
        • Helsinki underwater park Kronprins Gustav Adolf
        • Future of Finnish maritime archaeology seminar and survey
      • Nationally significant archaeological sites VARK
      • Hiking at and visiting archaeological sites
      • Archaeology as a hobby
      • Reporting a discovery
    • The cultural landscape
    • Built cultural environment
      • Built cultural heritage sites of national significance
      • Built heritage of the state
      • Cultural environments of churches
      • Protection under the Act on the Protection of the Built Heritage
      • Land-use planning and the cultural environments
  • About us
    • History of the Agency
    • Strategy
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    • International activities
      • UNESCO's International Cultural Heritage Conventions
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      • European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018
    • Arrival instructions, Sturenkatu 2a
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  • Services and guidelines
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    • Publications
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      • Materials and information systems of the cultural environment
        • Spatial data sets on the cultural environment
    • Data protection
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