Map Collections
The National Library's Map Collections contain approximately 100,000 maps, forming a historically and culturally significant entity. Besides legal deposit copies, the collections have been augmented by donations, maps and atlases acquired through purchases, as well as map collections contained in private collections. The Map Collections are grouped as follows:
The National Collection's Maps
The Humanities Collection's Map Collections
The Slavonic Collection's Russian Maps
The Minister Carl Enckell Map Collection
The Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Collection
Map Catalogues
Use of the collections
Domestic links:
National Land Survey of Finland: maps and map service
National Archives of Finland, Old Finnish Maps
National Archives of Finland, free word search "pitäjänkartasto"
Historical maps
Karjala tutuksi / Karjalan liitto ry: Luovutettu Karjala
1600s Land Record Maps
Kymenlaakso's Historical Maps
Finland 500 years on the map of Europe
Cartographic Society of Finland's links
Foreign links:
Kungl. biblioteket, National Library of Sweden: Maps in Our Collections
Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, Carolina Rediviva: Kart- bildavdelningen
The British Library Map Collections
Map history/History of Cartography
Further information:
matti.munnukka(at)helsinki.fikk-karttapalvelut(at)helsinki.fi
kk-erik(at)helsinki.fi
