The Finnish National Sound Archive
National Library
The Finnish National Sound Archive
Collection materials in format
Sound recording
Analogue
Digital
Digitised
The Finnish National Sound Archive is Finland's most extensive archive of public recordings. It contains most Finnish audio recordings produced since 1901.
Collection description
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.
Collection languages
Material type
archives
newspaper clippings
music recordings
sheet music publications
speech recordings
online materials
Accrual status
Continuous
Temporal coverage of the collection
modern times (1900-)Spatial coverage of the collection
FinlandMain collection
The Finnish National Sound ArchiveSubcollections
The collection of playback and recording equipment The collection of clippings from music magazines Sheet music publication collection The voice recording collection The Music Recording CollectionRestrictions of use
Only for Listening room Only for reading rooms Digitised on legal deposit terminals Kept in closed stack collection, use requires ordering the publicationCollection themes
Publication links
Suhonen, M. (1992). Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston musiikkikokoelmien vuosisada… (opens a new tab)Collection sizes
160000
titles of publications
Acquisition policy
Mostly legal deposit copies, also procurements and donations.