点评:As an American, I had never heard of Moomin until my in-laws brought us back a stuffed Moomin doll from the airport as a souvenir in 2024.
Fast-forward to May 2026 and my husband and I are in Tampere. We watched the 2 episodes of Moomin available on the plane ride over from the US on Finair. It's definitely a children's show but the stories weren't very hashed out. Oh well, we figured we'd still stop by the Moomin Museum as we had seen that Moomin is everywhere in Finland - bandages, juice, cookies, backpacks, sauna towels, airplane livery... It's everywhere.
The museum is a bit expensive. €18 per adult. The museum is 2 small floors with dioramas and some original art from the books on the walls. Information is on little screens in 6 languages, including English.
When you walk in, you're given a museum guide that's 40+ pages long in a hardback book (that you must return) that gives a synopsis of the 9 Moomin books and some information about some of the displays that go with each book.
The museum is set up where you enter the top floor and descend to see more dioramas from other Moomin books below. I wish the dioramas were numbered as certain dioramas go in a particular order as you're walked through different scenes in some of the books.
The museum doesn't have old Moomin merchandise or information about the various Moomin theater productions, movies or comic strips, it's all just dioramas, a few drawings and 2 screens playing some clips of Moomin. There is one interactive exhibit - a projector that allows you to have your silhouette Moomin-fied.
For someone who didn't grow up with Moomin, I felt like I was expecting more from a museum. There is a lot of reading involved so I'd probably not bring small children here. The kids that were here were screaming and crying while I visited.
If you're not someone who grew up with Moomin, I think you can save the money and skip this museum.
Visited: May 2026
翻译:作为一名美国人,直到2024年我的公婆从机场带回一个姆明毛绒玩具作为纪念品,我才第一次听说姆明。
时间快进到2026年5月,我和丈夫来到了坦佩雷。在乘坐芬兰航空从美国飞来的航班上,我们看了两集姆明动画片。这的确是一部儿童节目,但故事情节略显单薄。不过,我们还是决定去姆明博物馆看看,因为我们发现姆明在芬兰无处不在——绷带、果汁、饼干、背包、桑拿毛巾、飞机涂装……到处都是它的身影。
博物馆门票有点贵,成人18欧元。博物馆只有两层,墙上挂着一些立体模型和书中的原画。信息以六种语言(包括英语)显示在小屏幕上。
一进门,你就会拿到一本40多页的精装博物馆导览手册(需要归还),里面概述了9本姆明故事书的内容,以及与每本书相关的展品信息。
博物馆的布局是这样的:从顶层进入,然后往下走,可以看到更多来自其他姆明故事的立体模型。我希望这些立体模型能编号,因为有些模型会按照特定的顺序排列,带你参观一些书中的不同场景。
博物馆里没有姆明的旧周边商品,也没有关于各种姆明戏剧、电影或漫画的信息,只有一些立体模型、几幅图画和两块播放姆明片段的屏幕。只有一个互动展品——一个投影仪,可以把你的剪影变成姆明的样子。
对于一个没有接触过姆明的人来说,我觉得我对这个博物馆的期望有点高。这里需要阅读很多东西,所以我可能不会带小孩子来。我参观的时候,看到一些孩子在尖叫哭闹。
如果你不是从小就喜欢姆明,我觉得你可以省下这笔钱,不来这个博物馆。
参观时间:2026年5月