For schools and day care groups

KAMU Espoo City Museum’s learning services offer a multi-sensory and cross-disciplinary peek at the lives of the people of the past. The museum units around Espoo offer learners of different ages something to watch, experience and touch. The museum has also produced interesting digital content tailored to schools.

KAMU invites day-care, family day-care and student groups to visit the museum!

Supporting the teaching at schools, visits can easily be combined with various subjects. The Espoo City Museum family includes
KAMU at WeeGee
Glims Farmstead Museum
Pentala Archipelago Museum
Villa Museum Villa Rulludd
Lagstad School Museum

Explore city museum tours for schools on museum websites or in the Learn in Museum brochure and select one or more visits per year for your group. 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. Teachers can explore exhibitions for free in order to prepare for the museum visit of their class by showing their OAJ card.

You should prepare a visit to the museum in advance with the group and share background information about the exhibition – why we are going to the museum and what we will see there. During the museum visit, it is important for the teacher to keep the group together.

Book a lesson for your class

Espoo City Museum offers free lessons for school pupils. Lessons can be arranged at your school, via Teams, or in the workshop space at Exhibition Centre WeeGee. To book a lesson, please contact us by email at kaupunginmuseo@espoo.fi. The amount of available lessons is limited.

PREHISTORIC LIFE – LESSON, 45 MIN

Explore prehistory with a museum educator! This interactive lesson introduces the lives of people who lived thousands of years ago through the materials, objects, and working methods they used. Students will also consider how archaeological finds are interpreted and what they reveal about the past. Recommended for: Primary school (Grades 4–6) and upper secondary education.

IN A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE – LESSON, 45 MIN

This lesson offers a glimpse into the everyday lives of medieval villagers, vibrant trade networks, and the archaeological research of the unique village of Mankby. Students investigate how historical knowledge is formed and what it tells us about life in Espoo as part of medieval Europe. Recommended for: Primary school (Grades 4–6) and upper secondary education.

TWO SIDES, MANY TRUTHS – LESSON, 45 MIN

What makes a person take up arms? What happened in Finland and Espoo one hundred years ago? What kinds of memories did the war leave behind? Through interactive activities, storytelling, and game-based methods, students explore the history of the Finnish Civil War in Espoo. Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Borrow History for Your Classroom

What were ancient fishing nets made of? What games were played during the Middle Ages? Where did people get their food in earlier times? Answers to these and many other questions can be found in the museum’s educational packages covering different historical periods.

In addition to objects that can be touched and tried out, the kits include information about each period and offer ideas and models for hands-on learning. The educational kits are designed to support comprehensive school teaching, but they can also be used in other educational settings. The written materials in the packages are currently only available in Finnish, but the packages can also be used without the written materials.

The loan period is 1–3 weeks, as agreed. Borrowing is free of charge for schools and daycare centres in Espoo. For other institutions, the loan fee is €70 per loan period.

The packages can be collected from KAMU at Exhibition Centre WeeGee (Tapiola) during the museum’s opening hours.

Reservations and more information: +358 9 81657052 / kaupunginmuseo@espoo.fi

Choose a suitable package for your class

The Medieval times in Espoo -package is a comprehensive resource on the Middle Ages. In addition to an extensive collection of objects, the kit provides tips and ideas for hands-on learning. Topics covered include housing, everyday life in the Middle Ages, clothing, food, trade, games, and pastimes. Each theme includes activities, objects, or various materials that students can touch, examine, and experiment with. Recommended for comprehensive schools and upper secondary schools.

The Salon package introduces users to the history and social customs of the 19th century. How did people dress, travel, behave, and spend their leisure time? The package includes objects, clothing, and accessories that can be tried on and explored. The kit also contains a documentary film about the life of Aurora Karamzin, as well as an instruction binder with information about the 19th century and guidelines for using and handling the objects. Each thematic section includes assignments, exercises, or craft instructions to support active learning. Recommended for comprehensive schools and upper secondary schools.

History online for schools

Explore remote learning activities on the architecture of Tapiola, or join an inspiring excursion that immerses participants in the architectural world of Kaija and Heikki Siren.

Are you looking for engaging materials for group work in the classroom? Or wondering how to teach information literacy and online source searching in a safe and effective way? Finna Classroom brings together learning materials tailored to the curricula of comprehensive schools and upper secondary schools. These resources can be used in subjects such as history, social studies, mother tongue and literature, and visual arts.

The service also offers a variety of printable assignments and supplementary materials for teachers, making it easy and convenient to explore and make use of our online content.
Read more on the History online for schools -website.

Culture and sports path KULPS

KAMU Espoo City Museum’s services for schools are part of the KULPS culture and sports path. It is Espoo’s culture and physical education plan, which offers free cultural and sports visits for pre-schoolers and comprehensive school pupils as part of tuition in accordance with the curriculum.
All school services of the Espoo City Museum are As Much as You Like services, with the exception of the Pentala Archipelago Museum’s excursion day package, which is a Once a School Year service for grades 4–6. Explore city museum tours for schools on museum websites or in the Learn in Museum brochure.
Read more about KULPS Culture and sports paths.

Culture Call – Kulttuurikurkkaus

Espoo children’s cultural service Culture Call (Kulttuurikurkkaus) brings art and culture to day-care centres. In Culture Call, professional cultural actors visit day-care centres to perform and organise workshops. Furthermore, Culture Call for educators involves cultural actors who instruct early childhood education personnel on how to apply techniques of culture to working with children.
Culture Call at the City Museum consists of an hour-long Culture Call for educators aimed at day-care centre staff and a multisensory Ruoka-aika (Mealtime) material package that can be lent to the day care centre. The theme of the package is food, the familiar everyday matter, in the past and today and in every culture!
Read more about Culture Call.

Newsletter for teachers

Subscribe to the museum education newsletter of KAMU Espoo City Museum and get current information about events, guided tours and other learning services at Espoo City Museum.
Subscribe to the newsletter(external link, opens in a new window)(in Finnish)!

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