Other materials
Document collections
The Finnish Heritage Agency's archives are a government archives, focusing on the management of official documents resulting from the activities of our organisation. In addition to the archives, the Finnish Heritage Agency has individual document collections that are managed as part of the collections. For example, the archival collections of the Finnish Maritime Museum include old sea charts, ship drawings, and memoirs of seamen.
Document collections do not constitute actual archives but are materials accumulated as a result of the collecting work related to the museums' collection policies. The difference between document collections and archives is that archives are formed as a result of the records creator's functions, not by collecting documents. The collections also manage some entities classified as archival materials, mainly private archives. The management of these materials and document collections, as well as the related information services, are the responsibility of the collections.
Private archives
The Finnish Heritage Agency's archives currently hold the archives of the Finnish Antiquarian Society (SMY). The field notes of the SMY's Art History Expeditions, as well as parts of H. A. Reinholm's and C. A. Gottlund's private archives, have been microfilmed, and their analog copies are not available for customer service. The microfilm materials are in the Finnish Heritage Agency's Picture Collections.
The catalogs of the Finnish Antiquarian Society's archives can be found on the society's website.