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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: Sturenkatu 2a, 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 Sturenkatu 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: 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
Tel. +358 295 33 6902 Booking of guided tours
Tel. +358 295 33 6903 Museum Shop

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Hurried steps in the facilities of the Finnish Heritage Agency on Sturenkatu, Helsinki (cropped image), Soile Tirilä / Finnish Heritage Agency

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Picture Collections in news

3D model of Petäjävesi Old Church published

The Finnish Heritage Agency and its partners have produced a...
Archaeology, Archive, Journalistic Picture Archive JOKA , Library, Picture Collections, Research

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...
Journalistic Picture Archive JOKA , Picture Collections

In Leaps and Bounds - press photographs of President Urho Kekkonen by photographer Jussi Pohjakallio on display in Tamminiemi

The exhibition displays Jussi Pohjakallio’s (1930–1990) press photos of President...
Journalistic Picture Archive JOKA , Picture Collections

Patricia Seppälä Foundation to provide support to the Finnish Heritage Agency's Press Photo Archive

The Patricia Seppälä Foundation will support the digitisation work carried...
Journalistic Picture Archive JOKA , Picture Collections

HBL donates old press photos to the Press Photo Archive JOKA

KSF Media has donated Hufvudstadsbladet's historical collection of press photos...
Picture Collections

The Finnish Heritage Agency’s decision to release its high-resolution pictures for public use was awarded a special prize by the Finnish Museums Association

In late 2020, the Finnish Heritage Agency released its 250,000...
Journalistic Picture Archive JOKA , Picture Collections

Finnish Heritage Agency releases more than 200,000 print-quality pictures from its collections for public use

The Finnish Heritage Agency is releasing more than 200,000 pictures...
Picture Collections

Finnish Heritage Agency contributing to the National Archives’ 100th Anniversary of Finland’s Constitutional Democracy exhibition

The Constitution Act of the Republic of Finland adopted in...
International Activities, Picture Collections

The CultureLabs project promotes participation

CultureLabs is a three-year project funded by the EU’s Horizon...
Journalistic Picture Archive JOKA , Picture Collections, Finnish Heritage Agency

3.5 million press photographs from Otavamedia to the Journalistic Picture Archive JOKA of the Finnish Heritage Agency

Otavamedia’s extensive picture archive with historical significance, consisting of approximately...
Journalistic Picture Archive JOKA , Picture Collections

90-year-old Mauri Vuorinen tells about his 40 years as press photographer on a video interview

Mauri Vuorinen tells about his colleagues in the 1950’s and...
Picture Collections

What happened when Finland celebrated 100 years?

The National Museum and the Picture Collections of the Finnish...

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