Opening hours of the National Archives’ reading room services in summer 2026

The reading room services and the reading room telephone service will be closed in July, with the exception of the Helsinki branch.

The new Archiving Act has been approved

The Parliament approved the new Archiving Act on May 20th 2026. The Archiving Act provides for the archiving of authorities’ documents and data materials as well as private archive materials received by the National Archives.

National Archives of Finland invests in digital services – plans for office changes will be made during 2026

The National Archives of Finland will start preparing plans to centralise the storage of analogue material.  Planning concerns giving up five properties, expanding the Central Archives and the comprehensive digitalisation of services.

The Celia Accessibility Library and the National Repository Library to be merged with the Repository Library on 1 January 2026

The services transferred to the National Archives will remain available and easy to find despite the change.

The Finns in Russia 1917–1964 Database will be updated on 9 December 2025

During the update, the service may experience temporary interruptions and disruptions.

Reading room services of the National Archives of Finland in Helsinki during the renovation of Rauhankatu in 2026–2028 

We will announce more information about the opening hours and service practices in the autumn of 2025.

Some materials of the National Archives of Finland will be transferred from Helsinki to Mikkeli in September 2025

Preparation for the renovation of Rauhankatu.

Digital delivery to become a permanent operating model in Hämeenlinna

The National Archives of Finland has decided to make digital delivery a permanent operating model at the Hämeenlinna branch from 1 August 2025 onwards.

Cleaning day and special opening hours during the week of Ascension Day in the Rauhankatu reading room

On 28 May, reading room will close early at 16:00. The reading room will be closed on Thursday, 29 May, and Friday, 30 May.

National Archives' Astia service updated – It is easier than ever to search for and use the materials

In autumn 2025, the search function will be further developed.

Edvard Westermarck's Archives inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register

The fifth Finnish object inscribed on the Memory of the World Register.

National Archives’ material search will be reformed, but the deployment of the changes will be delayed by two weeks

The Astia service will be unavailable on Monday, 28 April, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The user interface and search function of the Astia service will be updated to make it easier to use

Due to the update process, Astia will be out of service on Monday 14 April.

Hämeenlinna’s digital delivery pilot project continues until June

We deliver all reading room and interlibrary loan orders digitally in Hämeenlinna.

An unexpected archive finding strengthens the “Soviet Union as a fate” database

Information about 6,000 new people added.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s correspondence digitised for free use

The collection includes thousands of letters from hundreds of cultural figures.

Renovation of the main building of the National Archives to start in the spring of 2026

There will be changes to the services.

Opening hours and customer service during Christmas

Reading rooms and their telephone service will be closed from 23 December 2024 to 1 January 2025.

Opening hours of reading rooms from 1 January to 31 July 2025 

The National Archives continues to develop its digital customer service.

We will deliver all reading room orders in Hämeenlinna digitally starting from 22 October

The branch office’s reading room will be closed 22.10.2024–31.3.2025.