Photograph collections

The Tuusula Museum's photo collection has about 20,000 photos. The most nationally significant ones are photos related to the lives and living environments of artists who worked in Tuusula.

Cultural history photographs depicting the history and development of Tuusula tell the story of the people, buildings and events of Tuusula. The oldest photographs date from the late 19th century and continue to the present day.

The collection includes images of, among other things

• Kellokosken Tehdas Oy – Mariefors Bruk Ab's operations
• The Jokela area and life there, as captured in the collections of photographer Nikolai Breneff and jou alist Kurt Ratia.
• About Hyrylä's business life and military base  
• documentary photographs of the built environment from different parts of the municipality since 1980.

Exploring the photo collection

The photo collections can be viewed at the Tuusula Museum in Finna and on the Virtuaali-Tuusula website.

The museum’s photo collections are used by historians, genealogists and local history enthusiasts, among others. They also serve as a source of background information for municipal planning and construction projects.

A wider selection of the museum’s digitised photographs can be viewed on site via the collection management programme. Please arrange your visit to the museum in advance.

Submit photos to the museum’s photo collection

The photo collection is constantly being expanded. We accept photographs depicting life in Tuusula from different periods, including contemporary life. We are particularly interested in photographs from the 1950s to the 1980s and images of the landscapes and everyday life of Tuusula’s villages. If the photographs are paper prints, we will scan them and retu them to their owners.

Enquiries

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