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News

22.12.2022 The National Archives of Finland open on fewer days throughout Finland at the beginning of 2023 due to fewer customer visits

09.09.2022 Welcome to follow the seminar on the friendship of Erik Laxman and Daikokuya Kodayu and the Finnish-Japanese co-operation on September 15th, 2022

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

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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