A survey of the public records system in Sweden

Abstract

The public records system in Sweden consists of the National Archives (Riksarkivet) in Stockholm, the provincial archives (landsarkiv) at Lund, Uppsala, Vadstena, Gothenburg and Härnösand, the county archives (länsarkiv) at Visby and Ostersund and the municipal archives (stadsarkiv) of Stockholm and Malmö, the National Archives being the supreme authority for this system. The military archives system has its own authority: the Royal Archives of the Army and Navy (Krigsarkivet) in Stockholm. Some of the central administrative boards (centrala ämbetsverk) have also archives administered by their own staff, e.g. the Royal Survey Board (Lantmäteristyrelsen) and the Central Bureau of Statistics (Statistiska Centralbyran). There are, of course, also a great number of private archives outside the public records system, e.g. the archives of the Royal Family (Bernadotteska familjearkivet) in the Royal Palace in Stockholm and the archives of the de la Gardie Family kept in Lund University Library. With the two exceptions mentioned above (Stockholm and Malmö) the municipal archives are also regarded as private and so are, of course, the business archives the most important of which are those of Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB, Falun, Holmens Bruks AB, Norrköping, Uddeholms AB, Uddeholm, and Svenska Gellulosa AB, Sundsvall.