Helsinkiphotos.fi is an image service that provides a user-friendly way to access the Helsinki City Museum’s vast collection of photographs. At Helsinkiphotos.fi , anyone can browse, search and download detailed, high resolution photographs suitable for print materials or lower resolution images more suitable for web and social media use..

The images are published under CC BY 4.0 or are they are in public domain. This means that you can use the images in any way you want, free of charge. If the image is licensed under CC BY 4.0, you must mention the name of the photographer and Helsinki City Museum when using the image. We hope that you will mention Helsinki City Museum as the source of the image also for copyright-free images.

The photographs may be used commercially, with certain restrictions. For instance, a person’s right to decide on the commercial use of their name, photograph or other identifiable part of their identity, privacy protection rights and moral rights may limit the use of the material.

Currently, the service has approximately 70,000 digitized photographs. More im ages are being digitized and added to the system constantly. If you need a digital image that is not currently found in the Helsinkiphotos.fi service, please contact the museum’s Picture Browsery.

The photographs of the Helsinki City Museum collection are still available in the national Finna service at hkm.finna.fi. In addition to photographs, you can also browse other material related to Helsinki in Finna, everything from plastic bags to hairdryers and bus tickets to works of art. You can also search the history of the buildings of Helsinki.