The "Moomin Exhibition: THE ART AND THE STORY" will be held at the Mori Arts Center Gallery from April 9 to June 16, 2019, showcasing a selection of original artwork and sketches from the Moomin ...

HAM Helsinki Art Museum kicks off the Moomin's anniversary year with Tove Jansson – Paradise, a landmark exhibition featuring over 180 works, including her monumental frescoes, smaller decorative ...

Tove Jansson, Cover for a comic book, 1957. Moomin Museum, Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley Collection. Jari Kuusenaho/Tampere Art Museum/MoominCharacters Tove Jansson, Comic strip Moomin on the ...

Do we buy picture books to relive our own childhoods? Perhaps, but the best have the power to inspire both children and adults I think it was while waiting for our boat to plummet over the precipice ...

Tove Marika Jansson (1914-2001) was born to a family of artists — her father was a sculptor and her mother an illustrator/designer. In 1945, as a form of escapism from World War II, Tove wrote and ...

Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door is Always Open at Brooklyn Public Library includes two facade projections of Jansson (left) and Moomintroll (right). (photo by Charles Roussel, courtesy Moomin ...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the diplomatic relationship between Japan and Finland, Mori Arts Centre Gallery in Roppongi is hosting the ‘Moomin Exhibition: the Art and the Story’ from Apr 9 ...

The Moomins may have come from Finland originally, but Japan has really warmed to the cute characters, with multiple destinations dedicated to the Finnish fairytale. The most famous is Hanno in ...