Infomation about KAMU

Through audience engagement, the museum increases the well-being of citizens by promoting awareness of the cultural environment and heritage, strengthening the feeling of belonging to the city and community and increasing opportunities to make a change. The core of audience engagement is Espoo’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage and local cultural environments. At KAMU audience engagement is broadly defined and includes all services delivered at the museums and elsewhere in Espoo, digitally and in any other form.

The principles and goals guiding KAMU’s audience engagement can be found in KAMU’s Audience Engagement Policy, which can be downloaded from the bottom part of this page. Along with it you can download KAMU’s publication from year 2022, Meaningful Audience Engagement, Practices Towards a Shared Audience Engagement Policy, which serves as a framework for strategic audience development.

KAMU Espoo City Museum records the past and present of Espoo together with residents of the city. The museum records, among other things, the stages of Espoo’s industry and urbanisation. The phenomena of modern life are also documented. 

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KAMU Espoo City Museum’s learning services offer a multi-sensory and cross-disciplinary peek at the lives of the people of the past. KAMU Espoo City Museum’s services for schools are free for all early childhood education units, comprehensive schools and groups of upper secondary school students. The museum has also produced interesting digital content tailored to schools. 

The museum’s tasks include exploring, valuing and taking care of the cultural environment. The cultural environment is an entity composed of built environments, archaeological sites and heritage landscapes. KAMU Espoo City Museum carries out expert tasks related to the cultural environment and building heritage in Espoo according to the agreement concluded with the Central Uusimaa Regional Museum. 

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KAMU aims at creating sustainable and accessible digital services that make the museum's services available to as many people as possible. Digital services include digital displays of museum exhibitions or online services provided by museums, such as websites, online exhibitions, remote guided tours or social media channels.

The principles and policies governing KAMU's digital services can be found in KAMU's digital policy, which can be downloaded at the bottom of the page. In the same section, you will find KAMU's 2024 guide for museums: “Digital policy checklist – A tool for drawing up guidelines for your museum’s digital services”. The Digital Policy Toolkit, published as an annex to the Digital Policy Checklist, provides practical tools for creating a museum's digital services policy.