Music archives
Music Archive Finland
Music Archive Finland is a national central archive that preserves materials related to Finnish music, excluding art music and folk music. Its collections are built around over 450 personal and organizational archives, consisting of materials donated by music creators, researchers, journalists, enthusiasts, and music industry organizations. These materials include recordings, videos, photographs, interviews, sheet music, manuscripts, music magazines, contracts, and letters.
Street address: Laippatie 4 B, 5. krs, 00880 Helsinki
Phone: +358 50 435 0485
Email: info@musiikkiarkisto.fi
Web page: https://www.musiikkiarkisto.fi/music-archive-finland.php
The Finnish National Sound Archive
The Finnish National Sound Archive is Finland's most extensive archive of public recordings. It contains most Finnish audio recordings produced since 1901. The archive also includes several unique music collections obtained from private parties.
The Finnish National Sound Archive is accrued through legal deposit copies, procurements and donations. The archive contains both music and voice recordings.
You can study copies of the recordings in the Music Library's listening room.
National Library of Finland
Street address: Unioninkatu 36, 00170 Helsinki
Postal address: PL 15, 00014 University of Helsinki
Email: kansalliskirjasto@helsinki.fi
Phone: +358 29 41 21611 (Mon-Fri 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.)
Chat: (Mon-Fri 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.)
Web page: https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/collections/finnish-national-sound-archive
The Finnish Folk Music Institute
The Archive of The Finnish Folk Music Institute is the most extensive Finnish archive specializing in folk music and folk dance. The collection includes approximately 5,600 hours of audio recordings, 1,500 hours of audiovisual material, 30,000 photographs, and 100,000 newspaper clippings.
The archive is located in Kaustinen at the Folk Arts Centre and is open on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visits should preferably be arranged in advance.
Visiting and mailing address:
Jyväskyläntie 3
69600 Kaustinen
FINLAND
Web page: https://kansanmusiikki-instituutti.fi/en/
Culture and Research Archive
The extensive tradition archives are situated inside the Faculty of Social Sciences in Tampere University. The collections include over 20,000 hours of sound recordings, about 200,000 photographs, records, musical instruments and manuscripts. The archives of the faculty are one of the largest folklife archives in Finland.
The collections of Tampere University Culture and Research Archive are primarily used in the research and teaching of the Faculty. The University of Tampere as a whole and the schools of the district also use the archives. Everyone looking for information may use the archives and, on the whole, the number of the users is great.
Tampere University Culture and Research Archive
Street address: Kalevantie 4, 33100 Tampere
Postal address: Kalevantie 4, 33014 Tampere University
Phone: +358 294 5211
Email: taku@tuni.fi
Web page: https://sites.tuni.fi/kansanperinne/folklife-archives/
Society of Swedish Literature (SLS)
The SLS Finna is the search portal of the Society of Swedish Literature (SLS). In SLS Finna you can search the SLS archive's main catalogue to discover digitized archival treasures, including manuscripts, letters, photographs, drawings, audio and video recordings, notes and maps. The portal currently gives access to more than 50,000 entries and more material is continuously added. SLS Library's main catalogue is also searchable.
The SLS Finna search service only gives access to a fraction of the materials in the SLS Archive. Please visit our reading rooms for access to more digitized materials.
Phone: +358 9 618 777
Email: info@sls.fi
Web Page: https://www.sls.fi/en/
Archive of Juminkeko Foundation
The audio archive consists of folkloric material collected since the early 1980s especially in the Karelia of the White Sea, but also in Olonets Karelia, Ingria and among the Veps.
Juminkeko has been systematically collecting tales, runosongs and other traditional music since the 1980s.
The audio archive comprises a total of about 4,000 hours of recordings.
No other archive has so much audio material from the Karelian of the White Sea and Kainuu.
Phone: +358 44 753 0670
Email: info@juminkeko.fi
Street address: Kontionkatu 25, 88900 Kuhmo
Web page: https://www.juminkeko.fi/en/archive/
