Summary information

Study title

The Narratives of Finland: Visitor Interviews 2021-2022

Creator

Viita-aho, Mari 0000-0002-3796-5004 (University of Helsinki) - ORCHID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-5004
Marti, Aleksi (University of Helsinki)

Study number / PID

FSD3910 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3910 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3910 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The data consists of interviews with visitors to the Narratives of Finland exhibition at the National Museum of Finland. The data was collected as part of a study that examined how images of Finnishness have been constructed in official and unofficial historical culture. The interviewees were both residents of Finland and foreign tourists. The interviews explored visitors' experiences of the exhibition. The interviews asked, for example, whether the interviewee felt nostalgia, pride or gratitude, or alternatively guilt, discomfort or sadness. They were also asked whether the interviewee felt that the exhibition was truthful, and whether the interviewee felt that the exhibition contained a moral or political message. Interviewees were not asked for background information. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD.

Methodology

Data collection period

14/12/2021 - 09/01/2022

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Visitors to the Narratives of Finland exhibition at the National Museum of Finland

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Availability
Non-probability: Purposive

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Funding information

Funder

Kone Foundation

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2025

Terms of data access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Related publications

  • Jukka Kortti, Mari Viita-aho, Rami Mähkä & Aleksi Marti (toim.) (2024) Kertomuksia kansakunnasta. Suomi ja suomalaisuus muuttuvassa historiakulttuurissa. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.
  • Marti, A. & Viita-aho, M. (2024) Kansallismuseon Suomen tarina -näyttely yhteisöllisen muistamisen paikkana. Teoksessa Kortti, J., Viita-aho, M., Mähkä, R. & Marti, A. (toim.) Kertomuksia kansakunnasta: Suomi ja suomalaisuus muuttuvassa historiakulttuurissa. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 145-160.