{"id":5213,"date":"2021-05-14T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T08:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visittampere.fi\/uncategorized\/sustainable-attractions-and-sights\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T12:56:06","slug":"sustainable-attractions-and-sights","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/visittampere.fi\/en\/articles\/sustainable-attractions-and-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable attractions and sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampere has an abundance of cultural attractions, <a href=\"https:\/\/visittampere.fi\/en\/articles\/museums-in-tampere\/\">museums<\/a>, and other interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/visittampere.fi\/en\/see-do\/sights-and-tours\/\">sights<\/a> where you can visit with a light carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainable sights and attractions are energy efficient and use renewable energy whenever possible. As for restaurant services, reducing food waste and having vegan and locally produced options on the menu make a difference. Another sign of a responsible attraction is accessibility, which means easy access for all visitor groups as well as offering free entries at selected times to enable visits for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors\u2019 means of arrival contribute usually the most to the sight\u2019s carbon footprint. Think Sustainably criteria guide visitors to consider arriving by foot, public transport, or bicycle instead of their own car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttractions and sights can inform their visitors of the best public transport connections, where visitors can park their bicycle or where the nearest city bike stop is located,\u201d says Demos Helsinki\u2019s Senior Advisor <strong>Satu L\u00e4hteenoja<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Vapriikki makes sustainable choices easy<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visittampere.fi\/en\/attraction\/museum-centre-vapriikki\/\">Museum Centre Vapriikki<\/a> is located by the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere city centre. With its 200 000 annual visitors, Vapriikki is the second most visited museum in Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Vapriikki has been improving its sustainability processes actively since 2018. A great number of visitors makes Vapriikki\u2019s actions, such as recycling, add up quickly. Responsibility shows in various ways: \u201cMost of our electricity is produced using renewable energy. We also contribute to our local environment by helping pollinators with insect hotels and pollinator-friendly plants in our garden,\u201d describes <strong>Tomi Kumpulainen<\/strong>, Chief Curator at Vapriikki.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the museum visitors, Vapriikki serves daily many people in its restaurants, meeting facilities and the museum store. \u201cAll of our customer facilities have new sorting bins. At our restaurants, fish on the menu is selected using WWF\u2019s Sustainable Seafood Guide. We also prefer locally produced food and serve vegan options,\u201d Kumpulainen says.<\/p>\n<p>Attractions and sights can choose from 24 Think Sustainably criteria and implement what fit their operations best. Vapriikki wants to empower its visitors to make a difference. \u201cChoosing the more sustainable option does not have to be anything less \u2013 instead it\u2019s about small choices every step of the way. Our mission is to make sustainable choices nice and easy for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Sustainable Moomin experiences<\/h2>\n<p>The world\u2019s only <a href=\"https:\/\/visittampere.fi\/en\/attraction\/worlds-only-moomin-museum\/\">Moomin Museum<\/a> is located in Tampere Hall. The location provides a great base for the Moomin Museum\u2019s own sustainability actions, as Tampere Hall is the first carbon neutral congress and concert centre in Finland. The museum shop and restaurants serving also Moomin Museum visitors have the <a href=\"https:\/\/joutsenmerkki.fi\/briefly-in-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nordic Swan Ecolabel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the Moomin Museum, sustainability is about material flows. \u201cWe use and re-use recycled and eco-friendly materials in our exhibitions. We also aim to minimise plastic usage and use renewable materials, such as wood, whenever possible. As for our device and work clothing purchases, we favour more sustainable options,\u201d tells <strong>Heikki Aittala<\/strong>, Service Manager at the Tampere Art Museum and the Moomin Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability feels like a natural approach to the Moomin Museum also content-wise. \u201cConnection to nature was important to <strong>Tove Jansson<\/strong>, the creator of Moomins, which shows in the characters and stories she created,\u201d says Aittala.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">S\u00e4rk\u00e4nniemi \u2013 sustainable memories of your life<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visittampere.fi\/en\/experience\/sarkanniemi-theme-park\/\">S\u00e4rk\u00e4nniemi<\/a> Amusement Park and experience centre has done sustainability work systematically since 1995. The amusement park was the first in its field to get ISO 14001 standard for environmental management system. In 2021, S\u00e4rk\u00e4nniemi was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/sarkanniemi.fi\/en\/sustainability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainable Travel Finland label<\/a> managed by Visit Finland as the first amusement park in Finland and one of the first companies in Pirkanmaa region.<\/p>\n<p>Located by the idyllic N\u00e4sij\u00e4rvi Lake, S\u00e4rk\u00e4nniemi amusement park is powered by 100 % renewable energy produced both at its own solar power plant and hydroelectric power plant at the Tammerkoski rapids. Maybe surprisingly, visitor arrivals make the biggest part of its carbon footprint. \u201cOur goal is to increase arrivals by public transport, which we aim to achieve by collaborating with the city of Tampere and its public transport operators. We want to make it easy for the customer to arrive by foot or bicycle from the city center. Also the transition from the bus or tram stop to the entrance should be as convenient as possible,\u201d says <strong>Ville Aarresuo<\/strong>, Development Director of S\u00e4rk\u00e4nniemi Oy.<\/p>\n<p>Food and treats are an important part of the amusement park visit. At S\u00e4rk\u00e4nniemi, food is \u201cfun food\u201d, which means sustainable production and choices. \u201cOur food is produced quickly and efficiently but minimizing food waste and optimising logistics make it as environmentally-friendly as possible. Every food court has vegan options and there is also one food court serving only vegan food. Our customers choose but it\u2019s our duty to provide options with a smaller carbon footprint,\u201d Aarresuo says.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, S\u00e4rk\u00e4nniemi will be a part of a sustainable tourism service hub at Tampere. \u201cOur mission is to create joyful experiences. Responsibility is a major competitive advantage that also our customers appreciate. S\u00e4rk\u00e4nniemi\u2019s goal is to offer sustainable and ethical experiences around the year and be the top sustainable travel destination in Finland and Northern Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5214,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[911,990,1014,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5213","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attraction","category-other-attraction","category-sightseeing-tours","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sustainable attractions and sights &#8211; the best tips for your stay in Tampere, Finland &#8211; Visit Tampere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"See what Tampere region has to offer! 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