National Inventory of Living Heritage
National Inventory of Living Heritage
Read more about the 12 elements inscribed in 2020 from here and 52 elements from 2017 in here.
Festivities and practices
- Conferment of Master’s Degrees (2017)
- Easter bonfires (2017)
- Living Christmas Calendar of Käpylä (2020)
- Opening of the Finnish summer (2017)
- Runeberg celebrations (2017)
- Santa Claus tradition in Finland (2017)
- Sauna bathing (2017)
- The Declaration of Christmas Peace in Turku (2017)
- The Orthodox and Karelian tradition of virpominen (2017)
- Visiting cemeteries on Christmas Eve (2017)
- Whitsunday festivities in Ritvala village (2017)
- Workers’ Labour Day on May 1 (2017)
Music and dance
- Kaustinen folk fiddling style (2017)
- The minuet in Finland’s Swedish-speaking areas and Minuet in the village of Jeppo (2017)
- Playing and building jouhikantele (Bowed Lyre) (2020)
- Playing and building the kantele (2020)
- Playing the musical saw (2020)
- Open air dancing (2017)
- Organ grinding (2017)
- Singing tradition of Finnish Roma people (2017)
- Tango in Finland (2017)
- The ‘purpuri’ dance in the Kokkola area (2017)
Performing arts
- Circus culture (2017)
- Demoscene (2020)
- Funfair tradition in Finland (2017)
- Gymnastics tradition in Finland (2017)
- National Culture Days of the Deaf (2020)
- Puppet theatre (2020)
Oral traditions
- Bedtime story (2020)
- Stinginess of the people in Laihia (2017)
- Runosong (2017)
Crafts
- Glassmaking Tradition (2017)
- Knitting tikkuröijy sweaters from Hailuoto island (2017)
- Lace-making in Heinämaa village (2017)
- Making a Korsnäs sweater (2017)
- Making national costumes (2017)
- Making of Tommi knives (2020)
- Rag rug weaving (2017)
- Ryijy tradition (2020)
- Shoe making tradition (2017)
- The rya tradition in Vesilahti (2020)
Food traditions
Games and playing
- Baseball in Finland (2017)
- Finnish skittles (2017)
- Jukola Relay (2017)
- Log driver competitions (2017)
- Playing in the snow (2017)
- Playing mölkky (2017)
- Playing skruuvi, a Finnish card game (2017)
Nature and the universe
- Building clinker boats and Sailing on traditional clinker boats (2017)
- Everyman’s rights (2017)
- Finnish spitz and safeguarding the hunting tradition (2017)
- Horsemanship of the Roma (2020)
- Horta hunting, foraging for wild greens and herbs (2017)
- Kalevala bone setting (2020)
- Know-how regarding the Finnhorse (2017)
- Picking mushrooms (2017)
- Tar burning in pits (2017)
- The forest relationship in Finland (2017)
- Traditional fishing culture in the Torne River’s rapids (2017)
- Traditional healing (2017)
- Winter seine fishing in Lake Puruvesi (2017)