The City Archives

You can request documents from the City Archives:

• by email: kaupunginarkisto@espoo.fi
• by phone: +358 9 81653000
• by fax: +358 9 81622495
• by post: Espoo City Archives, P.O. Box 1, 02070 City of Espoo
• or by visiting us at Siltakatu 11, shopping centre Entresse, 3rd floor. We are open Mon–Fri 10:00–15:45. 

The request for information must be sufficiently specific and made in good time. We bring documents for visitors to view until 15:15.

You can see and study documents that are in the public domain in the City Archives’ facilities and request copies of them on site, by post or by email (information about photocopying fees). We respond to requests for information as soon as possible and at the latest within the time limit laid down in the Act on the Openness of Government Activities or the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union. In situations where information requests concern secret documents, we will verify the right of access of the person making the request. We do not send copies of secret documents by e-mail.

If you have lost your school-leaving certificate, you may request a new copy of it. Recent school-leaving certificates are directly available from the schools that have issued them. Certificates issued in or before 2015 are usually available from the Espoo City Archives.

Documents concerning pupil welfare may be requested from the information services of the Growth and Learning Sector. 

The City Archives keeps the structural drawings of buildings in Espoo from 1949 to 1988 and architectural drawings from 1939 to 1999. More recent drawings are available from the Building Control Archives. Architectural drawings are also available online through the Arska service(external link, opens in a new window).

Clients rights in the service of the Western Uusimaa wellbeing services county(external link, opens in a new window)