Tove Jansson Family Birthday Festival Automatic translate

August 11 in Tampere, Finland celebrate the birthday of Tove Jansson with a large family festival. The celebration will take place in the Sorsapuisto Museum Park and the only Moomin Museum in the world.

On August 11, fans of the Moomin family around the world celebrate the birthday of Tove Jansson, the famous Finnish writer and illustrator, who created the beloved fairy tale world. In the Finnish city of Tampere, this date is dedicated to a large family festival in the world’s only Moomin museum. For the whole day, the Sorsapuisto Museum Park will turn into a real Moomin Valley. Guests will enjoy live music, meetings with fairy-tale characters, summer fun in the fresh air, treats and cartoons. Children and adults will be able to embrace the Moomins, fry marshmallows at the stake, enjoy pancakes, listen to the magnificent Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and just have fun. The park with a large picnic area will be open to all comers from morning until late in the evening, all events within the festival will be free in English.

The holiday program also has a lecture program with the participation of researchers from the life and work of Tove Jansson. Everyone will be able to listen to lectures on the world of Moomin, learn how the magical characters appeared, where Moomin is located, what the teeth of the Muskrat turned into, where the Moomin family disappeared, and why the Moomin Museum opened in Tampere.

On the occasion of the holiday, the Moomin Museum will be open from 14.00 to 21.00. In the museum you can familiarize yourself with the full story of fairy-tale characters: from the great flood to the mysterious disappearance of the Moomin family in November. Pencil drawings, paintings, three-dimensional compositions and entertaining excursions will reveal all the charm of the stories of Tove Jansson, give scope to the imagination and quench the thirst for interesting stories. All exhibits are accompanied by signatures, audio recordings and explications in various languages, including Russian. And excerpts from books in Swedish were recorded by the voice of Tove Jansson herself.

On the ground floor of the museum you can try a special menu from Moomin’s mom, including delicious Finnish pancakes with strawberry jam. As Moomin-mother said: “He who eats pancakes with jam cannot be so terribly dangerous. You can talk with that. ”

Admission to the festival is free.