Price list of the Finnish Heritage Agency’s Permit and Collections Service

These prices are in effect from 1 January 2026 onwards.
We reserve the right to adjust the prices.

The pricing of the Finnish Heritage Agency’s services is generally based on the decree of the Ministry of Education and Culture on fees for the Finnish Heritage Agency’s services. The State payment of the law (150/1992) sets out the rules governing the fees charged by state authorities and the amounts of such fees.

The price list for all the Finnish Heritage Agency’s services can be found at https://www.museovirasto.fi/en/about-us/price-list

 

Permits and certificates

ProductPrice excluding VATVAT 0 %PRICE
Permit to interfere (public service provision)2 374,0002 374,00 € 
Research permit (public service provision)257,000257,00 € 

 

Collection services

ProductPrice excluding VATVAT 25,5 %PRICE

Hourly charge for collection services lasting more than 2 hours

  • Complex material searches and their delivery, reports and other work carried out at the customer’s request
  • Free of charge for authors of academic theses, for the agency’s own staff carrying out official duties, and for photographers researching their own material
54,9814,0269,00 € 
Printing and photocopying charge (under 10 pages free of charge) per page0,800,20 1,00 € 

 

Documents

Payments according to the law of public activity by the authorities

ProductPrice excluding VATVAT 0 %PRICE
Standard requests for documents/copies   

Paper copy or digital file of a document

  • Maximum original size: A3 per page
1,2001,20 € 
Postage/letter, max 250 g6,0006,00 € 

Postage/parcel, max 1 kg

  • Larger consignments are agreed separately based on actual costs incurred.
13,00013,00 € 

Paper copy or digital file of documents with restricted use or display

  • The first 0.5 hours is free of charge. Each subsequent 0.5-hour period is charged.
25,00025,00 € 
Requests for documents requiring special measures   

Search fee

  • For retrieving information, charged in addition to the copying fee
  • The first 0.5 hours is free of charge. Each subsequent 0.5 hour or part thereof. The fee is charged even if the document is not found during the search.
35,00035,00 € 

Business services

ProductPrice excluding VATVAT 25,5 %PRICE
Additional and specialised services offered by the copying service   

Digitisation on an hourly basis

  • Original size up to A3. Please check availability. Storage media are charged separately.
54,9814,0269,00 € 
USB stick11,953,0515,00 € 

 

Photographic services

ProductPrice excluding VATVAT 25,5 %PRICE

Digitisation fee

  • Per image, includes digitisation in accordance with the Finnish Heritage Agency’s quality guidelines, RGB, TIFF
27,897,1135,00 € 

Reduced digitisation fee when there are more than 10 images in the same order

  • Per image, includes digitisation in accordance with the Finnish Heritage Agency’s quality guidelines, RGB, TIFF
25,506,5032,00 € 

Reduced digitisation fee when there are more than 20 images in the same order

  • Per image, includes digitisation in accordance with the Finnish Heritage Agency’s quality guidelines, RGB, TIFF
23,906,1030,00 € 

Object photography fee

  • Preparation of photography sessions by the Picture Collections’ photographers, photography work and image processing, 30 mins
39,8410,1650,00 € 

Assistance with object photography

  • Includes the work of a collections specialist to ensure the safe photography of objects, 30 mins
27,897,1135,00 € 
Delivery fee for digitised/digital image files, includes delivery of the image file and associated data, one delivery fee per order15,944,0620,00 € 

Usage fees (only in specifically stated exceptional cases)

  • The usage fee is charged per image and is only levied in specifically stated exceptional cases.
  • The usage fee also permits commercial use in different versions of the same product and in unaltered reprints for the purpose specified in the order.
  • When used online, images must be displayed in a reduced size.
55,7814,2270,00 € 
Usage fee for advertising and marketing purposes (determined on a case-by-case basis)  90 - 240 €

 

Other fees

ProductPrice excluding VATVAT 0 %PRICE
Fee for a lost key (research rooms, lockers)50,00050,00 € 
ProductPrice excluding VATVAT 25,5 %PRICE

Information Service

  • Information retrieval requests or other specialist work: free of charge for less than 1 hour; thereafter, a fee applies for each half-hour
25,506,5032,00 €