The low energy kaons from the meson produced at DANE offer a unique opportunity to study strangeness in nuclear matter. The interaction of kaons with hadronic matter can be investigated at DANE using three main approaches: study of hypernuclei production and decay, kaons scattering on nucleons, and kaonic atoms formation. These studies explore kaon - nucleon and hyperon - nucleon forces at very low energy, the nuclear shell model in the presence of strangeness quantum number and eventual quarks deconfinement phenomena. The experiments devoted to study this physical program at DANE are FINUDA and DEAR. The physics topics of both experiments are illustrated together with detailed descriptions of the two detectors. ( Note: Because of the late acceptance of this article, its position in this special issue is not in order - it should follow the paper by Antoniou et al.)