Part of the customer services of the Finnish Heritage Agency will close in summer 2023 - original material will not be available for loan in 2024 and 2025
The Finnish Heritage Agency’s picture collections, archaeological collections and archives will move to the Collections and Conservation Centre in Vantaa. The move will disrupt customer services for the archaeological and image collections from June 2023. The customer service of the Archives and Library will continue until further notice.
Archaeological collections
The research service for archaeological collections at Sturenkatu will end on 30 June 2023. Applications for use of materials must be submitted by 31 May 2023 in order to be processed.
Loan requests will be accepted until 30 June 2023. The original materials in the archaeological collections will not be available for loan in 2024 and 2025. The information service on the collections will continue to the extent possible during the move.
Picture collections
The research service for picture collections at Sturenkatu will end on 30 June 2023.
Material requests will be accepted until 15 June 2023. Loan requests will be accepted until 30 June 2023
The original materials in the picture collections collections will not be available for loan in 2024 and 2025. The information service on the collections will continue to the extent possible during the move.
The customer services of the Press Photo Archive JOKA and the picture collection of the Maritime Museum of Finland will continue as normal at the Collections and Conservation Centre.
Customers also have access to 200,000 digital images contained in the picture collections and 27,000 digital images of artefacts in the archaeological collections, available through the Finnish Heritage Agency's Finna service.
Library and archive
Library customer service will continue as usual at Sturenkatu.
From August 2023 onwards, the Archives' customer service will operate by appointment only, with reduced opening hours.
Customer service will move to better facilities
The Finnish Heritage Agency will discontinue the use of the Sturenkatu premises by the end of 2025. The four million pictures in the Finnish Heritage Agency's picture collections, two million artefacts in its archaeological collections and five shelf-kilometres of archive material will be moved from Sturenkatu in Helsinki to the Finnish Heritage Agency’s Collections and Conservation Centre in Hakkila, Vantaa.
During this project, the Finnish Heritage Agency’s collections and archive materials will be digitalised to improve their accessibility.
The aim is to open the customer service for the Finnish Heritage Agency’s picture and archaeology collections in early 2026 in the new customer service facilities at the Agency’s Collections and Conservation Centre.
More information about the move of the collections (in Finnish)
FHA's collections services
- Finnish Heritage Agency’s customer service at Sturenkatu
- Finnish Heritage Agency’s digital materials (in Finnish)
- Press Photo Archive JOKA and the picture collection of the Maritime Museum of Finland
Collections at Finna
- Finnish Heritage Agency’s digital collections at Finna
- Archaeological collections at Finna
- Press Photo Archive JOKA at Finna
The National Museum of Finland's collections
- The National Museum of Finland’s collections at Finna
- The National Museum of Finland’s digital collection (in Finnish)
Further information
- Finnish Heritage Agency’s archaeological collections, library and archive: Jutta Kuitunen, Chief Intendant, jutta.kuitunen@museovirasto.fi, tel. +358 (0)295 33 6081
- Picture Collections of the Finnish Heritage Agency, Ismo Malinen, Chief Intendant ismo.malinen@museovirasto.fi, tel. +358 (0)295 33 6382