National Collection
Kansalliskirjasto
Map Collection of the National Collection
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The National Collection's Map Collection includes maps, series of maps and atlases from the late-1500s to today.
Collection description
The National Collection's Map Collection includes maps, series of maps and atlases from the late-1500s to today. The collection contains approximately 90,000 separate map sheets. The earliest map sheets in the collection include general maps printed abroad showing Finland as well as maps of Finland from the 1600s.
Maps have been received as legal deposit copies since the early-1800s. Almost all maps published domestically in the 1900s have been obtained for the collection. In recent years, the Map Collection has been supplemented with donations and acquisitions.
Collection languages
Material type
Maps
Accrual status
Continuous
Temporal coverage of the collection
beginning of the modern age modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Spatial coverage of the collection
FinlandMain collection
National CollectionParent collection
National CollectionRestrictions of use
Only for Special Collections Reading Room Kept in closed stack collection, use requires ordering the publication as e-material for remote accessCollection themes
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Catalogue information
The collection has been described in the reference database
The collection has been only partially catalogued
More information about cataloguing
Maps and atlases in the National Collection from 1967 on are catalogued in the National Library Search. Map materials older than this have also been catalogued but when ordering them index maps and card index (-1973) of the National Collection.
Collection sizes
90.000
titles of publications
Parallel collections
Map Collection of the Slavonic Library Map Collection A. E. Nordenskiöld CollectionProvenance
Legal deposit copy collection
Acquisition policy
Accrues statutorily as legal deposit copies, see Act on Collecting and Preserving Cultural Materials (Laki kulttuuriaineistojen tallettamisesta ja säilyttämisestä 1433/2007), http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/alkup/2007/20071433. Additionally supplemented by donations and acquisitions.