Organization: The Finnish Heritage Agency
Web: www.museovirasto.fi
Wikimedia Commons: Finnish Heritage Agency
Contact: Hannu Häkkinen hannu.hakkinen@museovirasto.fi, Suvi Sillanpää suvi.sillanpaa@museovirasto.fi
Description: The Picture Collections of the Finnish Heritage Agency records and tells stories of the history and cultures of the area of Finland, the built environment, and the Finno-Ugric cultures, as well as the cultures of areas outside Finland through documentation by Finnish researchers and explorers. The material in the collections covers historical events as well as depictions of the everyday lives of the people. The collections also include the extensive collections of the Press Photo Archive (JOKA), which include news and entertainment images from newspapers over the past decades. The pictures (created with different techniques (photographs, drawings, watercolours, graphics, and prints) date from the 1500s to the present.
License(s): CC BY 4.0 with some exceptions
Kuvakokoelmat.fi
- https://www.kuvakokoelmat.fi/
- Historical picture collection
- Journalistic picture collection JOKA
- Ethnographic picture collection
- Collection of built heritage
- Finno-Ugric collection
- Picture collection of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission
- Picture collection of the Finnish Maritime Museum
- General ethnographic collection
Public Gatherings - Demonstrations and Celebrations
The Picture Collections include photographs from demonstrations from 1905 to date, rock festivals, folk festivals, annual festivals, markets and local events that bring people together, but often also make visible the differences between them.