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Moominvalley ( Swedish: Mumindalen, Finnish: Muumilaakso) is situated in the city of Tampere, Finland. Shown at the Moomin Valley Museum are illustrations made by Tove Jansson (the creator of Moomins), 40 miniatures, tableaux about Moomin events and a small (2.5 metres high) Moomin House. There is a total of about 2,000 exhibits on display. Also shown is the original Moomin Valley multimedia. It also has the Moomin Valley shop which sells gift items and Moomin books in many languages.
Moominvalley is a fictional place, where the Moomins live in the tales by Finnish author Tove Jansson.
Especially in the early books Moominvalley is depicted as a beautiful place with green slopes, rivers, fruit trees, flowers and a place for calm and peaceful life as in the tradition of pastoral poetry, and yet it is still threatened by natural forces such as flooding and volcanoes. The valley is surrounded by Lonely Mountains in the east and by other mountains in the south, while the west faces the sea. Thus, travel on land is often preceded by mountain climbing in the stories. It was inspired by Ängsmarn, a family retreat in Sweden, which is also situated on a grassy field facing the sea and surrounded by rocky outcrops. The Moominvalley is also a manifestation of Jansson's escapism; she often fantasized of establishing a colony in Morocco or move to Basqueland or Tonga.
In Moominpappa at Sea, Moominvalley is depicted as a place of boredom.
Moominvalley is also another name for the Moomin Museum in Tampere, Finland.