Moomin Museum is closed 9–20 September 2024 – new Moomin art from 21 September
In September, the Moomin Museum will replace all of Tove Jansson's paper-based illustrations on display with new works. The museum will therefore be completely closed from 9 to 20 September 2024. There is still time to see your favourite illustrations in the current Moomin exhibition.
The Moomin Museum will open to the public with new works on Saturday 21 September. In the new Moomin exhibition, we will be able to see Tove Jansson’s very first Moominvalley themed illustration. How beautiful the Moomin House looks in a paradisiacal and exotic valley of fruit and flowers. There are also original maps by Tove Jansson, illustrated initials, wreaths and, of course, action-packed scenes from the Moomins’ adventures over the years. The Moomin tableaux, brimming with detail, remain in their familiar places. Similarly, the temporary exhibition An Artist’s Life, on the career and life of Tove Jansson, continues in the museum’s Observatory.
The opening of the museum will be celebrated with an event day on Saturday 21 September. The celebrations will continue next year with the Moomin 80 anniversary, marking the 80th anniversary of the publication of Tove Jansson’s first Moomin book Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen (The Moomins and the Great Flood).
The paper-based Moomin illustrations are sensitive to light, and even in the dimmed museum they can only be displayed for a few years at a time. After that, the works are stored to rest. The Moomin Museum’s main exhibition is renewed approximately every three years.
The new edition of the popular guidebook that you can borrow in the Moomin Museum is now also for sale in different languages.
