On August 11, 2018 - the city of Tampere in Finland hosts the big Family Festival or the Moomin Museum Garden Party, in honor of the birthday of Tuve Jansson. The festival will take place in the Sorsapuisto Museum Park and the only Moomin Museum of the world. For the whole day the museum park will turn into a Moomin Valley. Guests will enjoy live music, meetings with fairy-tale characters, summer outdoor entertainment, treats and more. On the occasion of the holiday, the Moomin Museum will be open from 14:00 to 21:00. Entrance to the festival is free.
Children and adults will have the opportunity to meet and embrace the Moonins, fry marshmallows over an open fire, eat pancakes, listen to the Philharmonic Orchestra of Tampere and just have fun. The park has a large picnic area will be open to all comers from morning untill late evening, all events within the festival are free and English is an official language of the festival.
The festival program also includes lectures from researchers of the life and work of Tuve Jansson. Everyone will be able to listen to lectures about the world of Moomins, find out how the characters came to be, where the Moomin Valley is located, what the teeth of Ondatra turned into, where the Moomins went and why the Moomin Museum was opened in Tampere.
Inside the museum visitors can learn the full story of the fairy-tale characters: from a large flood to the mysterious disappearance of the Moomin family, see pencil drawings, paintings, three-dimensional compositions and go on tours which will reveal all the charm of Tove Jansson's stories. All exhibits are accompanied by signs, audio recordings, and explications in various languages, including English. And excerpts from books in the Swedish language are recorded in the voice of Tuve Jansson herself.
On the first floor of the museum visitors can try a special menu from the Moomins, including Finnish pancakes with strawberry jam. As Moominmamma once said: "He who eats pancakes with jam can not be so terribly dangerous."
The entrance to the museum is paid, learn more about the price at the museum's official website: https://muumimuseo.fi/en/.
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The Moomin Museum in Tampere is a magical and fairytale place, and most importantly - it is an art museum. On two floors, covered with soft carpets and lit with dim lights, visitors can see the original illustrations and covers from the different editions of Tove Jansson's books. The exhibition follows the Moomin family from story to story, and it is possible to listen to excerpts from books in 5 languages (Finnish, Swedish, English, Japanese and Russian).
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