This weekend a temporary exhibition about Ilon Wikland’s life opened at Sjöhistoriska, The Maritime Museum, in Stockholm.   The exhibition called Den långa, långa resan has previously been showcased at the Formex fair in August. It’s named after the autobiographical book about Ilon Wiklands journey to Sweden from Estonia as a refugee child in the […]

Moominvalley and its wealth of characters have been brought to life on the stage before, but never like this. Tove Jansson´s Moomin comics come to life for the first time ever at Lilla Teatern.    The play Kris och katastrof i Mumindalen (“Crisis and Catastrophe in Moominvalley”) had its world premiere at Lilla Teatern in […]

This week the annual fair Brand Licensing Europe took place in London and Rights & Brands and Moomin Characters exhibited in the colorful stand C181, showcasing products from several of our licensees and brands. This year’s fair was a great success that resulted in a large number of exciting meetings, interviews, press and opportunities. Brand […]

Read Hour is celebrated on September 8th, coinciding with UN’s International Literacy Day. The goal of the campaign is to inspire everyone, and especially young people to read and to establish a way of celebrating reading. Moomin Characters is a sponsor of Read Hour and currently runs the project “Reading, Writing and the Moomins”.  During […]

Read Hour 2022 is almost here! On 8 September, it’s again time to sit down and read – with eyes, ears or fingers – for just one hour. Read Hour, which started as a local Finnish initiative, has now started growing into an international movement with a bit of Moominous help. Check out our list […]

During the Formex fair in Stockholm on August 23-26, Rights & Brands presented a 28 meters long exhibition about Ilon Wiklands artistry.   Formex, Sweden’s biggest interior and design fair, gathered over 12.000 visitors and more than 400 exhibitors this year. Using two sections at the entrance to the A-hall, Rights & Brands had a […]

At this year’s Formex fair in Stockholm, August 23-26, Rights & Brands will present an exhibition about Ilon Wikland’s artistry. The exhibition will be up during the whole fair in stand AG:04, by the entrance to the A-hall.   Ilon Wikland is one of Sweden’s most popular children’s book illustrators but is strangely unknown to […]

Slide down from Moominhouse, play inside a giant seashell or head on an underwater adventure on the Oshun Oxtra. Welcome to the new Moomin playground at Junibacken, Stockholm! Junibacken is a children’s cultural centre with books at its heart, located on the beautiful island of Djurgården. Their newest attraction is a Moomin playground, which invites […]

Each year, there are many Moomin and Tove Jansson exhibitions around the world. Moomin.com has gathered information about some of the current instalments – why not head to a museum on a rainy day this summer? We present some of the exhibitions more at length elsewhere on moomin.com, but here is a summary of exhibitions […]

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair opened it’s doors today, the 21st of March, and we at Rights & Brands are excited to attend in person! You can find Rights & Brands at Hall 29 A 58.  Bologna Children’s Book Fair finally returns as an in-person event for its 59th edition. From March 21st to March 24th […]

Funnys Äventyr invites all Moomin fans into a world filled with adventure, learning and joyous encounters! Bring your whole family along to the most Moominous cultural house in Sweden.   Funnys Äventyr in Malmö, Sweden is a fun, warm-spirited and adventurous cultural house for children, and a world filled with fairytales where the stories such as […]

It has now been one year since the adventure and culture centre Funnys Äventyr opened its doors in Malmö, Sweden. In celebration of the anniversary, Funnys Äventyr inaugurated their new exhibition “Från A till Ö med Mumin”, The Moomin ABC Exhibition. Several lucky children and invited guests got the chance to meet Moomin and Little […]

This year’s Brand Licensing Europe opened its doors yesterday and Rights & Brands is to be found in the eye-catching stand B151 together with Moomin Characters, Brainbase and Moomin Shops.   The BLE fair in London is a meeting place for the European licensing industry, bringing together the widest range of brands for license across […]

The postcard illustration Tove Jansson painted for UNICEF in 1981 is also used in the materials of UNICEF Walks in Finland. By participating in UNICEF Walks, pupils can support their age-mates in developing countries.   During her extensive career, Tove Jansson also worked together with different charity organizations and illustrated, for example, postcards for charity. […]

Swedish Design legend Stig Lindberg is featured in a big exhibition at Millesgården in Stockholm, Sweden. The exhibition opened this weekend and will stay open to January 30, 2022.    The multi-artist Stig Lindberg (1916-1982) has provided Sweden with his designs and illustrations since the end of the 1930s. With enormous productivity, a desire to […]

The newly opened exhibition at the Didrichsen Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland, has been extended and will give visitors the chance to see Tove Jansson’s and her contemporaries’ paintings until the 22nd of August. Tove Jansson was the daughter of an illustrator and a sculptor. From an early age she started to develop the identity […]