National Inventory of Living Heritage
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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)