Collection
Focus: national.
Consists of: a drawings collection, photographic archives, and competition archive. The material is mainly on 20th century architecture.
Strengths: architectural archives: 100.000 photographs and copies of drawings; 30.000 slides; competition documents and photographs from 1880s onwards ; Approximately 500.000 original drawings.
Collection accessible by computer (new material) and through inventories.
Drawings can be reproduced.
Institution has a conservation laboratory.
Library Holdings
Holdings: about 33.000 volumes. General architecture library: literature on all aspects of architecture and community planning, both Finnish and foreign. Loans within Finland. The following are not available for loan: Reference library – general reference works, complete annual issues of journals, including the Finnish Architectural Review, and a small collection of rare publications; Fennica – Finnish and foreign publications on Finnish architecture; Manuscripts – unpublished material: manuscripts, notes, travel accounts, letters, etc.