THE OLDEST SOCIAL MOVEMENT ARCHIVE IN FINLAND
Founded in 1909, the Finnish Labour Archives is the final archive of the social democratic labour movement, trade union movement under the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), civic organisations and related private individuals. The archive's mission is to contribute safeguarding and ensuring the preservation of the national cultural heritage and promote its research. The archive collects, preserves and makes available for research documents and oral history surrounding these themes at both national and local levels.
The archive's collections extend from the late 1800s to today and include paper and digital documents, oral history, photographs and posters. The collection currently takes up approximately 11 shelf kilometres and is constantly growing. The collections are open to everyone for research use. Read more about the archive collections here, about the oral history collection here, and about the photo and poster collections here.
The Finnish Labour Archives is located in Sörnäinen, Helsinki. See instructions for visiting the archive here. Information on how to arrive at the archive can be found here.
Strategy (in Finnish) [PDF]
Procurement policy (in Finnish) [PDF]
History of the Finnish Labour Archives (in Finnish, see English summary at the end) [PDF]
Rules of the Finnish Labour Archives Foundation (in Finnish) [PDF]
Finnish Labour Archives’ Rules of Use [PDF]
Commission of Finnish Labour Tradition’s Rules of Use [PDF]
Privacy Statement (in Finnish) [PDF]
Accessibility statement (in Finnish) [PDF]
Annual report (in Finnish) [PDF]