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Links to Other Moomintroll Sites

In Finland

Muumilaakso - The Moominvalley Museum. This is a must see website!
There's a recent article on Finnish children's authors, including Tove Jansson, at the Welcome to Finland Online site.
Muumi's 50th Anniversary is celebrated online.
Magnificent MoominValley is a unique project of the Tampere City Library.
"Moominvalley, situated in the bottom floor of Tampere City Library Metso, is a unique cultural sight in Tampere. It has original fairytale illustrations - Indian ink drawings and watercolors - by Tove Jansson.

The Tampere Art Museum has information on "Friends of the Moomins":
"Friends of the Moomins was founded on the 18th of February 1991 with the aim of developing Moominvalley as an artistically interesting tourist attraction and to promote Moomin philosophy and Moomin knowledge together with the City of Tampere officials.
The Friends have about 3500 members, the individual membership fee is FIM 30, corporation membership fee is FIM 300 and supporting membership fee is FIM 50."
They published a musical CD and put on plays as well. They maintain a Moomin shop in the museum.

MoominLand This site welcomes you to Naantali:
"Since summer 1993 the Moomin family and their friends have been staying in Naantali, at the south-westernmost tip of Finland, next to Turku. During the past four summers 800 000 Moomin friends altogether have visited them.

Julia Simon's Moomintroll Page

The Moomin World and its Creator, Written for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs by Thomas Warburton, Ph. D. at the FINFO website.

The FINFO website also hosts a wonderful article on Tove Jansson, the creator of the Momintrolls.
Finnish Muumi Stamps - Information about the stamps and about moomintroll at this site is all in Finnish
Muumintroll has a wonderful list of additional information.
Home Page of Muumi-Peikko includes lots of great pictures of the cute stuffed moomin toy lounging around. This site is by Sanna Jyrinki. You can also listen to a "mummi song" (wav file format) on this site.

For more information you can also contact Tove Jansson's publisher at their own website:
Schildts Förlags Ab, Rusthållargatan 1, 02270 Esbo, Finland. (schildts@schildts.fi)

In the Netherlands, Germany, and Norway.

You can read Moems Toverwinter, on-line in Dutch or in German.

Mummitrollet og hatten This site in entirely in Norwegian, and appears to be a great resource. You can order the books (in norweigian), look at a map of Moominvalley, etc., find Book and Cassette tape sets, and even pins.
Mummitrollet på video Moonimtroll on video! These are in either MPEG or Quicktime format. The site is all in norweigian. Last time I checked, none of the video links were working.
Moominland. "In Naadendal, an ancient city close to Aabo in Finland, there is an island where you can find the home of the Moomintrolls." This website has pictures of this city and the fanciful Moominvally Park that's open to visitors.

Muumi's Dreamworld in the Netherlands.

In Japan

Muumin homepage
One more Muumin Valley.
Moominvalley Check out the Japanese book covers!
Japanese CDs This Japanese site for music Cds lists a soundtrack called "Moomin" (Toshiba, W08-S377334-J, $34.99 )
Finnish Events in Japan by the Finnish Embassy in Japan.

Others

Moomin information from Austin, Texas, by Ben Ettinger.
Muumi Working Group (MWG)
The Children's Literature Book List lists the Moomin books amoung it's reccomended books for children.
Links to the Moomins from the s.c.nordic FAQ
MoominValley Talker is a talker located in Estonia, Europe. Most of the users there speak Estonian. You can get there by telneting to moomin.ee 2010
EuroTV has a website that'll let you search the database to find out when Moomin is playing in Europe.
James Lundeen's Moomintroll page.
Moomin the Troll - a global salesman This site is part of the s.c.nordic faq mirror, with a wonderful article about the sucess of the Moomnitroll series.
Bookmania mentions the Moomintroll books.
Books From Findland has lists a book about Tove Jansson as a caricaturist.
Talking Book Topics, September-October 1997, Children's Fiction mentions the moomintroll books.

Fazia Begum Rizvi
fazia@io.com