Event will be the first major UK exhibition on the brand when it opens on December 16.
The Southbank Centre in London is to host the first major UK exhibition on the Moomins.
The interactive exhibition – entitled Adventures in Moominland – opens on December 16 and runs through until April 23, 2017 at the UK’s largest arts centre.
Held in The Royal Festival Hall, the exhibition will explore the stories of the Moomins, present new insights in Tove Jansson’s life and the influences behind her work.
Rare archive objects and illustrations will be built into the experience. The archive materials – which are on loan from Moomin Characters and Tampere Art Museum – will include letters and personal items from Tove’s studio in Helsinki and her family island of Klovharu, where she lived for almost 30 years.
Paul Denton, producer at Southbank Centre, said: “Tove Jansson’s work is beloved throughout the world by children and adults alike, and we’re delighted to be able to introduce a new generation to the magical world of the Moomins through this new immersive exhibition.”
Sophia Jansson, the niece of Tove Jansson, added: “Southbank Centre’s approach of combining archive objects from Tove’s home and studio with immersive worlds straight from the pages of the Moomin books is the perfect way to tell the story of how this artist and her creations developed in conjunction with one another.”
The exhibition will also feed into Southbank Centre’s 2017 festival offering, with a range of Moomins-themed events taking place during the Women of the World festival in March and the Imagine Children’s Festival in February.
A pop-up Moomins shop will also be open throughout the exhibition’s run.
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