The Museum of Finnish Architecture, founded in 1956, and the Design Museum Helsinki (founded in 1873) launched a project in 2021 to establish a new national museum of architecture and design. In 2024 the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum Helsinki completed a merger, forming the Architecture & Design Museum. A new building will be opened in 2030. The Museum for Finnish Architecture maintains a collection of Finnish architecture and serves as a source of expert knowledge for everyone interested in architecture and the built environment. It has large collections of plans and drawings, photographs and scale models, in addition to a public special library.
Museum of Finnish Architecture
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; and circa 500.000 original drawings. Collection accessible by computer (new material) and through inventories.Library Holdings
Holdings: about 33.000 volumes. General architecture library: literature on all aspects of architecture and community planning, both Finnish and foreign.Other Members:
