News

10.3.2025

What does a life sound like? Tove Jansson and her music

11.2.2025

Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä’s incredible, unknown cassette collection

18.12.2024

“Why should we eat so horribly much just because it is Christmas” – Tove Jansson’s relation to Christmas food

24.10.2024

80 years of Moomin – Explore the places that inspired Moominvalley

23.10.2024

Exhibition at HAM sheds new light on Tove Jansson’s murals

20.9.2024

From the secluded peace of Klovharu back to the hustle and bustle of Helsinki – see films

6.9.2024

The Summer Book film – trailer and interview with the director Charlie McDowell

30.7.2024

Tove through Tuulikki’s lens – see videos from the island Klovharun

1.7.2024

Tove Jansson’s only altarpiece inspires opera

20.6.2024

Tove Jansson’s iconic flower wreath – how a photoshoot inspired a birthday tradition

17.5.2024

Tove Jansson’s Paris travels – part 2

16.12.2023

Tove Jansson’s mother in a unique interview from 1922: “It would be terrible not to have your own money”

13.12.2023

Christmas celebration with Lucia in the Jansson family

28.9.2023

Tove Jansson’s Paris Part 1: Studies and dreams

27.9.2023

Houses of Tove Jansson exhibition in Paris shows Jansson’s work in dialogue with contemporary artists

21.6.2023

A fearless artist in constant renewal – Tove Jansson exhibition in Oslo by The Norwegian Drawing Center

23.2.2023

“For me it was an adventure to illustrate J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit” – all you need to know about Tove Janssons criticised illustrations

11.1.2023

Museum collects letters by Tove Jansson – do you have one?

20.12.2022

Christmas cards by Tove Jansson

10.10.2022

Moomin theatre – from headless trolls to 100 puppets on stage

7.9.2022

The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My video documentary celebrates 70 year old classic

12.8.2022

Tove Jansson transported her 5,5 meter long maritime murals on a bus to Hamina

9.8.2022

Tove Jansson’s birthday – a cheerful summer party in the archipelago

8.7.2022

Video: Sophia Jansson about Tove Jansson’s the Summer Book

21.6.2022

Inspiring The Summer Book quotes – the iconic novel is out in beautiful 50th anniversary edition

30.5.2022

Tove Festivals in Reykjavik and Tampere – tickets out now!

5.4.2022

Tove Jansson’s hidden song lyrics finally out in the open

25.3.2022

Tove Jansson’s queer literature – “A relationship like this is radical”

24.2.2022

Watch the award-winning film “Tove” – screenings & streaming around world

24.2.2022

How I imagine Tove Jansson. On writing the biography for this site