Swedish National Archive

The Swedish National Archives are responsible for regulating and maintaining information created in the Swedish public sector. Aside from preserving and granting access to documents from the last one thousand years, the agency also writes regulation regarding archival care and appraisal, and conducts inspections to see that the policies are upheld within the public sector. Hence the Swedish National Archives is an agency working with both cultural heritage and governmental administration.

Today the agency preserves about 800 kilometers of analogue archival material in the form of documents, maps, drawings, portraits, photographs etc created mainly in governmental affairs, but also by individuals, NGOs, organisations and businesses. A small part of the archival holdings are digitized and freely available through the National Archives Database and the Digital Research Room.

A number of national sites

The Swedish National Archives has sites on a number of locations in Sweden via the regional archives in Lund, Visby, Vadstena, Gothenburg, Uppsala, Östersund and Härnösand which together with the three sites in Stockholm (Krigsarkivet, Marieberg and Arninge) also host research rooms for access to the archival collections. The localities in Fränsta and Ramsele support other functions and are not open for researchers as they do not hold collections.

Diachronic Language Resources (CLARIN-DiaRes)

The Swedish National Archives is a part of the Diachronic Language Resources (CLARIN-DiaRes) K-center focusing on diachronic text collections and especially historical texts, tools and other resources supporting analysis thereof.

Contact

Catharina Grönqvist, catharina.gronqvist@riksarkivet.se