Dr Ulla Salmela

Ulla Salmela is the Chief Intendant of the Policy and Guidance Unit at the Department of Cultural Environment Services at Museovirasto, The Finnish Heritage Agency. She is the Principal Investigator of Subproject III: Ensuring the sustainability of SuAlt led by the Heritage Agency.

Ulla gained her PhD (art history) at the University of Jyväskylä in 2005 on the history of Finnish urban planning in the interwar years. Since then she has worked on various posts at the Heritage Agency, including museum development, built heritage, cultural environment and heritage policy, on both national and European level. She has a special interest (stemming e.g. from the Council of Europe Faro Convention) towards cooperation between heritage professionals and non-professionals and bringing together the knowledge they produce.

Selected publications:

Urban space and social welfare, Otto-Iivari Meurman as a planner of Finnish towns 1914-1937. Taidehistoriallisia tutkimuksia 30. Taidehistorian seura. Studies in Art History, the Finnish Society for Art History, Helsinki 2004. Doctoral dissertation, 310 pp.

“Urban aesthetics and national unity: A Finnish new town in the making.” In: Planting New Towns in the Interwar Period. Editors: Helen Meller and Heleni Porfyriou. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016.

Kohti kestävää kulttuuriperintötyötä. Taustaselvitys Faron yleissopimuksen voimaansaattamiseksi Suomessa. Toim. Ulla Salmela, Hannu Matikka, Pauliina Latvala ja Petja Kauppi. Museovirasto ja Suomen Kotiseutuliitto 2015.

Articles in Sadan vuoden satoa Online publication, Museovirasto 2017:

  1. Asemakaavalaki avasi tietä rakennusten ja kaupunkikuvan suojelulle
  2. Viipurin muinaismuistot saivat valvojan
  3. ”Vanhoja tiiliäkö sinä suret?” Fasadismi ja case Kämp rakennussuojelun virstanpylväänä
  4. Työ muuttuu, Museovirasto pysyy
  5. Kulttuuriperintö ja Euroopan unioni

Social media

Twitter: @UllaSalmela