Museum West Zealand's social responsibility

Social conditions
Management and employees prioritize a good working environment. The coordination of the work for a good working environment and cooperation in the organization takes place in the Working Environment Committee (AMU) and the Cooperation Committee (SU). Annual employee development meetings (MUS) and management development meetings (LUS) are conducted. We carry out the statutory workplace assessments and also carry out annual well-being surveys.
We work with transparency in relation to decisions in the organisation. Minutes from the board are shared with the staff on the intranet and the staff are informed and briefed at two joint annual staff meetings and regular briefings on the intranet. Project employees who may feel a looser attachment to the organization are invited along to staff meetings and social activities. In the case of longer project appointments, it is also possible to have relevant continuing education paid for by the museum.
The museum has several employees in flexible working arrangements. To the extent that it can be adapted to the museum's work, we have people in various internship schemes, including business internships, work trials and clarification courses. There is also a school internship.
The museum's many volunteers contribute to the solution of a large number of tasks that the museum otherwise could not complete, while at the same time the museum functions as part of the volunteers' social network.

Social responsibility
The museum has several events where there is free entry, so everyone has the opportunity to visit the museum without finances becoming a barrier. Similar to other state-recognised museums, children and young people under the age of 18 have free access to the museums. The public has free access to museum gardens and green areas where possible. Several of the gardens contain a large number of culturally historic plants and both Bakkekammen 45 and Malergården have been involved in projects related to the preservation of old Danish perennials and apple varieties. The museum follows the legislation in force at all times, including the legislation regarding state-recognized museums, just as the museum in its daily work follows ICOM's (International Council of Museums) museum ethics rules

Sustainability
Sustainability is considered wherever possible. Thus, exhibition material and fixtures are reused – either direct reuse internally or externally to other museums – alternatively to recycling. In recent years, the museum's staff have become increasingly good at source sorting. Over several years, the museum has continually replaced light sources with LEDs - both to limit CO2 emissions and save on electricity bills. As a direct learning from the many periods of working from home during the shutdowns, online meetings have replaced many physical meetings, limiting driving between departments and thus fuel consumption.

With support from the energy company Andel, in 2022 the museum had a thorough energy report prepared for Malergården. In the coming years, we will work with the energy report's recommendations and also work to obtain energy reports for the other buildings in the museum's care.