Helsinki
- Visiting address: Rauhankatu 17
- Postal address: P.O.Box 258, FI-00171 Helsinki
Opening hours
- Tuesday–Friday 9 am–4 pm (2.1.–27.6.2025)
- Extended opening hours on Wednesdays from 9 am to 7 pm (8.1.–14.5.2024)
- The branch and the reading room are closed during holidays. On the eve of a public holiday, the reading room closes at 16.00.
- The reading room is closed
- 31.12.2024–1.1.2025
- 1.–31.7.
Delivery of material
- Material from Rauhankatu is delivered to the reading room until 2:30 pm.
- Deliveries of material from Siltavuori are made once per day Tue–Fri.
- Service Cards are delivered to the reading room once a week. No specific time can be promised for the delivery of an order.
- Remote borrowing service is closed 1.6.–31.7.2025.
Contact details
Contact the National Archives’ shared service number +358 29 533 7490 for matters related to visiting a reading room (Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). We will offer service in Swedish from Tuesday to Friday from noon to 2 p.m. at +358 29 533 7491.
It is recommended that you order the documents you want in advance on our Astia online service so that they are ready when you arrive in the reading room. The orders are not accepted by phone.
Please also keep in mind that the chat service on our website is open from Monday to Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. In particular, we answer quick questions related to the online services and digital materials.
Arrival instructions
- Access through the main door: Enter the gate on Rauhankatu, go up the stairs and turn right. Accessible entrance: From Rauhankatu through the old main door
- Public transportation: The nearest local transport stops are on Snellmaninkatu. The nearest metro station is the University of Helsinki.
- Parking: Along Rauhankatu and Snellmaninkatu; there is also paid parking available in the Kluuvi underground car park.
Accessibility
The guided route takes you through the old main entrance on the Rauhankatu side to the staircase hall and further up one floor with the lift. There you can find the archive’s customer service point and reading rooms.
The lift has been renovated in the old lift shaft and therefore has a slightly different dimensioning from the recommendation under the Accessibility Regulation, but it still meets the minimum requirement of the accessibility standard. The door opening is 800 mm wide, and the body has the following dimensions: 1,000 × 1,110 × 2,100 mm (width × depth × height). The lift has doors on both ends.
The interior of the building is not accessible. It is possible to move around the research facilities without help, but you may need help to get to the exhibition rooms, lecture halls and the cafeteria, for example. There is an accessible toilet on the same floor as the reading room. Guide dogs are allowed.
Services
- lunch café (open 8 am to 14.30 pm Mon–Fri)
- note: the restaurant is also open in July, although the reading room is closed
- break room
- cloakroom
- luggage lockers