Astia out of service on Wednesday 27.11. at 9–12

You will not be able to search or browse the material or make requests for information.

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.

A new telephone number for matters related to reading rooms starts 8.10.

The National Archives will discontinue the direct telephone numbers of its branch offices.

The opening hours for the reading rooms for spring and summer 2024 have been published

Compared to the current year, the opening hours remain unchanged.

It is now easier than ever to give feedback – try it in Astia service

We have implemented a new feedback form at the National Archives in order to clarify and enhance the processing of feedback on our online services.

Gustaf Erikson's archive was accepted into UNESCO's Memory of the World register

After several years of completion, Åland submitted an application to UNESCO in 2021 for Gustaf Erikson's archive to be included in the International Memory of the World Register of Documentary Heritage.

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

The National Archives of Finland has announced its opening hours for 1 January – 31 March 2023.

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

In the end of March, Russian invaders hit the office of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Chernihiv, where the SBU’s regional archive is located. According to media sources, the case files of 13,000 victims of Stalin’s Great Purge were destroyed in the fire resulting from the strike. The National Archives of Finland is currently trying to discover how much of this material had been digitised.

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

The Finnish Court Records Search Service of the National Archives of Finland has been updated. Over 1.5 million new images have been added to the service.

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

The new Astia service is available to customers from 22 March onwards. Now all the data material of the National Archives, except for the Aarre data, can be retrieved and accessed through a single user interface.