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Aalto University Archives

The Aalto University Archives hold materials related to art education, including photographs, documents, and student works from the 1910s onwards. The collections include the Historical Archive of Art Education, consisting mainly of school art (drawing, visual arts) works created within Finland’s general education system. Student work collections survive from 31 different schools around Finland, with an estimated 70,000 works, mainly from 1910–2005.

Finnish Heritage Agency Archives*

The Finnish Heritage Agency’s ethnological survey collections contain a large body of oral history material related to play and childhood. The archives also hold student theses dating from 1956 onwards.

Finnish Literature Society (SKS)*

The SKS archives contain a card index on the topic of play, with around 36,000 copied cards compiled from material received up to 1954 (games, rhymes, and descriptions of play occasions), as well as reference cards relating to the 1962 nationwide competition collection of folk games (L). The archives also preserve several other play-related survey materials. Basic information on these collections is available in Finna.

Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS)*

The archival collections of SLS hold a wide variety of material from Swedish-speaking Finland, including both contemporary and traditional play, as well as childhood and youth culture.

Tahto Sports Museum Archives*

The archival collections of the Tahto Sports Museum include material on children’s and youth sports culture and education, as well as documents relating to the activities of various sports clubs.

University of Tampere Culture and Research Archives (TAKU)

These collections include interviews with Tampere children conducted in 1965 by Sirkka-Liisa Hahmo. In the group interviews, children talk about their schooling and free time, while also describing different games and forms of shared activities.

Finnish Social Science Data Archive *

The Finnish Social Science Data Archive holds material from numerous research projects focusing on childhood, play, and youth culture.

Labour Archives*

The Labour Archives contains material relating to working-class families with children, youth association activities, and play.

* For the play and childhood related collections of the Finnish Heritage Agency, the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, the Tahto Sports Museum, the Labour Archives, and the Finnish Social Science Data Archive, Museum Leikki has prepared filtered listings. Likewise, a comprehensive catalog is available for childhood-related materials in the Finnish Literature Society’s Collections of Tradition and Contemporary Culture. These listings and catalogs can be requested from the museum.