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The duty of the National Archives is to ensure that records belonging to the national cultural heritage are preserved for future generations. Our unique materials are available to everyone.

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News

13.04.2022 The 1954 Hague Convention calls for the protection of cultural property in armed conflict

29.03.2022 The Digital Archives user interface will be discontinued on March 31. 2022

23.03.2022 The new Astia access service has been fully implemented – all data material is now available in one place

23.03.2022 The Finnish Court Records Search Service update: you can now use full-text search with over three million hand-written pages

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Memory of the World

UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme protects documentary and written cultural heritage in Finland and all over the world, and promotes its availability. Finland’s national Memory of the World committee organises the programme in Finland. It maintains the national Memory of the World register, in which nationally significant documentary cultural heritage has been collected.

Find out more about Memory of the World programme in Finland