Turku's archives

The City of Turku's Central Archive

The City of Turku's Central Archive holds documents on the administration of the Turku from 1623 onwards.

The oldest documents belong to the archives of the City Adminstrative Court, which includes, for example, the City Administrative Court and City Court records, the Handcraftsmen Guild's archives, estate inventory deeds and construction plan drawings from Turku.

The archives for the City Council, the City Executive Board, and other boards and committees include the key documents of the municipal administration.

The Central Archive also includes a number of private archives donated by the citizens of Turku.

• The City of Turku's Archives

The Provincial Archives of Turku

The district covered by the Provincial Archives of Turku contains the areas of the Regional Council of Southwest Finland and the Regional Council of Satakunta. The Provincial Archive stores records of government agencies and civil service departments below the level of central government. The Provincial Archives also store church and municipal archives, private archives and maintain copies of records.

• The Provincial Archives of Turku

The Institute of Migration's Archive

The Institute of Migration's archive preserves documents and material on migration, internal domestic migration and general information related to migration.

• The Institute of Migration Archive

Åbo Akademi's Library and Archives

Åbo Akademi's library primarily preserves the archives of individuals, such as authors. The Finnish Economic Society archives are also maintained there. In addition, there are specialist archives for ethnology, folklore, art and church history, maritime history as well as the Sibelius Museum's archives.

• Åbo Akademi's Library and Archives

The Archives of the Turku University School of Cultural Research

The collections in the Archives of the Turku University School of Cultural Research include tens of thousands of photographs, hundreds of thousands questionnaire pages as well as manuscripts, maps, thousands of hours of recorded tapes as well as transcriptions.

• The Archives of the Turku University School of Cultural Research