Kulttuuriympäristösanasto, Kulturmiljöordlista
Ministry of the Environment, 2025
The glossary is available:
- in the Terminologies Tool on the Interoperability Platform
Languages of the glossary:
- Terms: Finnish, Swedish, English
- Concept descriptions: Finnish, Swedish
The Glossary of Cultural Environment was updated and expanded in 2024–2025 by the Ministry of the Environment and the Finnish Terminology Centre. The terminology was published in December 2025. It contains 76 concepts related to built cultural environment and archaeological cultural environment. 12 of these concepts have been added in this project and 9 have been updated.
The aim of the glossary is to define the core concepts related to cultural environment, cultural heritage, built heritage, archaeological heritage and landscape, suggest the preferred terms and clarify their usage. The definitions have been formed in a way that supports coherent usage of the concepts in different contexts and the interoperability of the public administration’s information contents. The concepts are given equivalents in Swedish and English, and the relations between the concepts are illustrated by concept diagrams. The concept descriptions have also been translated into Swedish. The terminology is intended to serve as a tool for people working with land use, built environment and cultural environment.
The updates to the glossary were prepared in a working group whose experts were from the Ministry of the Environment, the Finnish Heritage Agency, Metsähallitus, the City of Helsinki, the City of Tampere, the ELY Centre of Southwest Finland and Sitowise. The working group was led by the Terminology Centre’s terminologist, who was responsible for the terminology work.