Junibakken - Astrid Lindgren Museum in Stockholm. Description and reviews

Astrid Lindgren's World is a park located five kilometers from hometown Astrid Lindgren Vimmerby, Sweden. On its 130,000 m2 you can find famous characters from her works. All entertainment is based on the descriptions given in the books, and gives children the opportunity to immerse themselves in the beloved worlds of Pippi Longstocking, Emil from Lenneberga, Carlson, who lives on the roof, and many other favorite characters of the Swedish writer.

It was here that the famous Swedish storyteller was born and raised. “I don’t want to write for adults,” said Astrid Lindgren, and until the end of her life she was faithful to this credo. The writer completely shared the great French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s belief that all people come from childhood. Thematic amusement park “The World of Astrid Lindgren” for the little people and for all those who have childhood alive in their souls. The park is huge. It is located on an area of ​​8 hectares. It is divided into several zones. They are all located around a single center - a large circular street. This can be seen on the map:

Astrid Lindgren's World is open from May until the first weekend of November. During summer season performances continue all day. It all starts with a small skit at the entrance to the park and continues with the main stage shows with music, singing and dancing. But what is most appreciated by visitors is meeting their favorite characters who communicate with children in both Swedish and English.

The pearl of the park is a miniature model of some of the main streets of Wimmerbrü from the time of the writer’s childhood. All houses are playhouses, they are slightly larger than a child. The windows open, you can go into every house, and in almost every one you can see a scene from your favorite fairy tales. Small benches, lanterns, small squares, alleys... Children's world, the world of childhood.

You can also visit the world of giants and feel very, very small.

Visit the cave where the pirates hid the looted treasures...

Or in a castle...

Or find a real secret underground passage! If you see this house, inside, in the closet, there is a secret descent down into a tunnel that runs under the castle wall and goes straight into the forest.

In addition, in the park there are other places of characters from Astrid Lindgren’s works: Carlson’s house, Rasmus the tramp’s barn, Villa “Chicken” (Pippi’s house) and many others. Indeed, during her creative career, more than eighty works were published from the pen of the storyteller. Each of them is a masterpiece in its own way.

The park has a lot of attractions, but these are not the usual roller coasters and teacups. This is a huge slide that you can explore (by the way, it takes children about half an hour), various corridors, different passages, here you can walk with Carlson on the roofs... In the park you can visit a real ferry across the pond. Children can independently or with the help of a parent pull a rope and swim from one bank of the stream to the other on a wooden raft. There is also a mini-zoo where animals that live in this region of Sweden live.

This park real theater. And not only on stages (and there are many of them in the park). Performances take place every minute. The actors get used to their roles and improvise. For children, it is happiness to touch familiar and beloved characters. And when they start playing and talking with them... The star of the park is Pippi Longstocking. A real little anarchist entertains children and puts on a real show. “The work is very hard. We perform in rain or heat, 8 hours a day. But it’s a real pleasure to work with such a wonderful team,” says Lasso Johnson, who plays the role of the elderly bandit Per Coot from the fairy tale “Ronya, the Robber’s Daughter.”

The park consciously tries to avoid commercialization. Like any theme park, there are places to eat. The food here is all homemade, prepared on site, not frozen. The park's organizers are sensitive to children's food. There are 12 different cafes on the territory of the park: snack bars, ice cream, and almost restaurants. Mostly they are located near the entrance to the park. "We offer the best ice cream best brands and Pepsi, but the labels can only be seen in refrigerators and freezers; everything is sold in our own containers,” says Nils-Magnus Angantyr, the park’s general sales manager. “Several years ago we decided not to sell hamburgers in the park. We continue to sell sausages, but only because Emil, Pippi and all the other kids love them.” In addition, everywhere in the park there are trays with sweets and other little things - the delicacies of life.

A visit to the park is not the whole part of the program. You can stroll through the streets of Vimmerby itself and be surprised to learn that the wonderful town has hardly changed over a century, and the houses that are presented in the park still stand today. After strolling along the streets, you can stop by for a cup of coffee and a portion of homemade meatballs with lingonberry sauce in one of the cozy local cafes. If you wish, you can also visit the Astrid Lingren Museum in the town, which, unlike the park, is open all year round.

I have long wanted to keep in my journal an article by Oleg Fochkin about the life of Astrid Lindgren and excerpts from her memories of childhood. Supplemented with photographs.
Here I am saving it :)
And I advise those who haven’t read it yet - it’s very interesting and great love written!

One of the minor planets is named after Astrid Lindgren.
"Call me now" Asteroid Lindgren"“,” she joked, having learned about such an unusual act of recognition.
The children's writer became the first woman to whom a monument was erected during her lifetime - it is located in the center of Stockholm, and Astrid was present at the opening ceremony.
The Swedes called their compatriot “woman of the century.”
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren is the most famous Swedish children's writer.

She wrote 87 children's books and most of of which has been translated into Russian. In particular these are:
- "Pippi Longstocking"
- "The Kid and Carlson, who lives on the roof"
- "Emil of Lenneberga"
- "Lionheart Brothers"
- "Roni, the Robber's Daughter"
- "The famous detective Kalle Blumkvist"
- "We are all from Bullerby"
- "Rasmus the Tramp"
- "Lotta from Loud Street"

In 1957, Lindgren became the first children's writer to receive a Swedish State Prize for literary achievements. Astrid received so many awards and prizes that it is simply impossible to list them all.
Among the most important:
- the Hans Christian Andersen Prize, which is called the “small Nobel”;
- Lewis Carroll Prize;
- awards from UNESCO and various governments;
- International Leo Tolstoy Gold Medal;
- Silver Bear (for the film "Ronnie - the Robber's Daughter").

Astrid Lindgren, née Eriksson, was born into a farming family on November 14, 1907 in the small town of Vimmerby, Småland province, in southern Sweden.

As Lindgren herself would later write in the collection of autobiographical essays “My Fictions,” she grew up in the age of the horse and the convertible. The main means of transportation for the family was a horse-drawn carriage, the pace of life was slower, entertainment was simpler, and relationships with surrounding nature much tighter than today.
And from childhood, the future great storyteller loved nature very much, not imagining how one could live without this amazing world.

Childhood passed under the banner of endless games - exciting, exciting, sometimes risky and in no way inferior to boyish fun. Astrid Lindgren retained her passion for climbing trees right up to old age. “The Law of Moses, thank God, does not prohibit old women from climbing trees.”, - she used to say in old age, overcoming another tree.

She was the second child of Samuel August Eriksson and his wife Hannah. My father rented a farm in Naes, a pastoral estate on the very outskirts of the town. In addition to her older brother Gunnar, Astrid soon had two sisters - Stina and Ingegerd.

Astrid's parents met when her father was thirteen and her mother was twelve, and they loved each other ever since.
They had deep affection for each other and for their children. And most importantly, they were not shy about these feelings, which by the standards of that time was very rare, if not a challenge to society.
About this time and special relationship in the family, the writer tenderly described in her only “adult” book “Samuel August from Sevedstorp and Hannah from Hult.”

As a child, Astrid Lindgren was surrounded by folklore, and many jokes, fairy tales, stories that she heard from her father or from friends later formed the basis of her own works.
Her love for books and reading, as she later admitted, arose in the kitchen of Christine, with whom she was friends. It was Christine who introduced Astrid to amazing world fairy tales
The girl grew up on books that were completely different from her own future works: on the sugary Elsa Beskow, on varnished notes folk tales, on moralizing stories for youth.

Her own abilities became obvious already in primary school, where Astrid was called "Wimmerbün's Selma Lagerlöf", which, according to own opinion, she didn't deserve it.
Astrid, who read a lot with early years, I learned very easily. It was much more difficult to maintain the rules of school discipline. This was the prototype of Pippi Longstocking.

The city that is described in almost every Lindgren novel is Vimmerby, near which Astrid’s homestead was located. Vimmerby turned out to be either the city where Pippi went shopping, or the patrimony of the policeman Björk, or the place where little Mio runs.

After school, at the age of 16, Astrid Lindgren began working as a journalist for the local newspaper "Wimmerby Tidningen".
The once obedient Astrid has turned into a real “queen of swing”.

But the height of outrageousness was her new haircut- she was one of the first in the area to cut her hair short, and this at the age of sixteen!
The shock was so great that her father categorically forbade her to show herself to him, and people on the street came up to her and asked her to take off her hat and show off her outlandish hairstyle.

At eighteen, Astrid became pregnant.
The scandal turned out to be so great that the girl had to leave parents' house and go to the capital, leaving the position of a junior reporter and his beloved family.
In 1926, Astrid's son Lass was born.
Since there was not enough money, Astrid had to give her beloved son to Denmark, to a family of adoptive parents. She never forgave herself for this.

In Stockholm, Astrid studies to be a secretary, then works in a small office.
In 1931, she changed her job to the Royal Automobile Club and married her boss, Sture Lindgren, who turned Astrid Ericsson into Astrid Lindgren. After this, Astrid was able to take Lars home.

After marriage, Astrid Lindgren decided to become housewife to devote himself completely to his son. The boy was proud of Astrid - she was the most hooligan mother in the world! One day she jumped onto a tram at full speed and was fined by the conductor.

The Lindgrens' daughter Karin was born in 1934, when Lass was seven years old.

In 1941, the Lindgrens moved to an apartment overlooking Stockholm's Vasa Park, where the writer lived until her death. The family lived in harmony until Sture's death in 1952. Astrid was 44 years old at the time.

History of a twisted leg

Perhaps we would never have read the fairy tales of the Swedish writer if it were not for her daughter and “His Majesty’s chance.”
In 1941, Karin fell ill with pneumonia, and every evening Astrid told her all sorts of stories before bed. One day a girl ordered a story about Pippi Longstocking - she made up this name on the spot. So Astrid Lindgren began to write a story about a girl who does not obey any conditions.

Shortly before her daughter's tenth birthday, Astrid twisted her ankle in an extremely unfortunate manner and, lying in bed and thinking about her daughter's birthday present, the future great storyteller wrote down her first short story, "Pippi Longstocking" and composed continuation about a funny red-haired girl.
The handwritten book with illustrations by the author was greeted with delight by my daughter. The 10-year-old daughter and friends persuaded Astrid to send the manuscript to one of the major Swedish publishing houses.
Since this all started...

The writer sent one copy of the manuscript to the largest Stockholm publishing house, Bonnier. After some deliberation, the manuscript was rejected. But the writer had already decided everything for herself and in 1944 she took part in a competition for best book for girls, announced by the relatively new and little-known publishing house "Raben & Sjotgren".
Lindgren received second prize for the story “Britt-Marie pours out her soul” and a publishing contract for it.

At the same time, the writer closely followed the discussion about education that was unfolding in society, advocating for an education that would take into account the thoughts and feelings of children and thus show respect for them.
She became an author who consistently spoke from a child's point of view.
Worldwide recognition for a long time could not reconcile the author with the Swedish State Commission for Children and educational literature. From the point of view of official teachers, Lindgren's tales were incorrect and insufficiently instructive.

And then Lindgren begins working in this publishing house as editor of the children's literature department.
Five years later, the writer receives the Nils Holgerson Prize, then the German Prize for the Best Children's Book ("Mio, My Mio").
She worked at this publishing house until her retirement, which she officially retired in 1970.
In 1946, she published her first story about detective Kalle Blumkvist, thanks to which she won first prize at literary competition(Astrid Lindgren did not participate in competitions anymore).

Carlson grew better in the USSR

The idea of ​​Carlson, who lives on the roof, was also suggested by his daughter.
Astrid noticed funny story Karin says that when a girl is left alone, a small cheerful man flies into her room through the window and hides behind a picture if adults enter.
His name was Liljem Kvarsten, a magical uncle in a pointed hat who takes lonely children on incredible journeys at dusk. He came to life in the collection "Little Nils Carlson" .

And in 1955, “The Kid and Carlson Who Lives on the Roof” appeared.
Carlson is the first positive hero children's books with a complete set negative traits. He made us believe that all our fears and problems are just “trifles, an everyday matter.”

In March 1966, the teacher French Lilianna Lungina, the wife of film playwright Semyon Lungin, mother of filmmakers Evgeny and Pavel Lungin, brought home a Swedish book by a certain Astrid Lindgren in an old string bag.

She had been dreaming of working as a translator for a year, and the publishing house "Children's Literature" promised to conclude an agreement with her if a good Swedish book was found...

In 1967 the first Soviet edition"Carlson" was released.
The book instantly became popular. By 1974, more than 10 million (!) copies of the tale had been sold.
Lindgren liked to repeat in her interviews that “there is something Russian” about Carlson. And then Lindgren came to Moscow. Lilianna Lungina recalled: "Astrid turned out to be surprisingly similar to her books - insightful, very smart. Easy-going and truly cheerful. When she came to us, she pulled our six-year-old son Zhenya out of the crib and began to play with him on the carpet, and when we accompanied her to the hotel, she , getting off the trolleybus, she danced on the street so infectiously and enthusiastically that we had to answer her in kind..."

Carlson’s “cult of personality” in the USSR began after the release of the animated duology “Kid and Carlson” and “Carlson Returned” shot at the Soyuzmultfilm studio.
It could have become a trilogy (a series about Uncle Julius) if the cartoon director Boris Stepantsev had not become carried away with new projects.
And the leading role in the cult cartoon was played by artist Anatoly Savchenko. It was he who created the characters that displaced the originals by Elon Wikland from our consciousness.
Many catchphrases from the m/f are missing from the book. Let us at least remember:
- “Dear Carlson!”
- “Ugh! I served my whole neck.”
- “Do I love children? How can I tell you this?... Crazy!”
- “And I’m crazy! What a shame...”

The emphasis was shifted towards the Baby’s loneliness. And instead of the mischievous boy that Lindgren had (he throws stones and is daring to Miss Bok), we see a sad, big-eyed melancholic.
Carlson, in the Russian translation, is generally a good-natured person.

How a fairy tale changed power

Astrid Lindgren has earned more than one million crowns by selling the rights to publish her books and their film adaptations, to release audio and video cassettes, CDs with recordings of her songs or literary works in its own performance.

But all these years, her lifestyle did not change - Lindgren lived in the same modest Stockholm apartment and preferred to give money to others.
Only once, in 1976, when the tax collected by the state amounted to 102% (!) of her profits, Lingren protested.

She sent to the Stockholm newspaper Expressen open letter, in which she told a fairy tale about a certain Pomperipossa from Monismania. In this fairy tale for adults, Astrid Lindgren took the position of a layman and tried to expose the vices of society and its pretense.
In the year of parliamentary elections, the fairy tale became a bomb for the bureaucratic apparatus of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, which remained in power for over 40 years in a row.
The Social Democrats lost the elections.
Moreover, the writer herself was a member of this party all her life.

Her letter was so received because of the universal respect that the writer enjoyed in Sweden. Swedish children listened to her books on the radio. Her voice, face and sense of humor were also known to adults who constantly saw and heard Lindgren on radio and television, where she hosted various quizzes and talk shows.

“Not violence” was the title of her speech when presenting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
"We all know- Lindgren reminded, - that children who are beaten and abused will beat and abuse their own children, and therefore this vicious circle must be broken.".

In the spring of 1985, she spoke publicly about the abuse of farm animals.
Prime Minister Ingvar Carlson himself listened. When he paid a visit to Astrid Lindgren, she asked what kind of young people he brought with him. "These are my bodyguards"- Carlson answered.
"That's pretty smart of you,- said the 78-year-old writer, - You never know what to expect from me when I'm in this mood!"

And in the newspapers a fairy tale appeared about a loving cow who protests against the mistreatment of livestock. In June 1988, an animal protection law was passed, called the Lindgren Law.

She was always afraid of not being on time...

In 1952, Astrid Sture's husband died.
Then her mother, father, and in 1974 her brother and several old friends died.
And son.

Voluntary seclusion began.
“Life is a wonderful thing, it lasts so long and yet is so short!”- she said.
The only thing Astrid was truly afraid of was not making it in time.

In recent years, she rarely left the house and did not communicate with journalists.
She practically lost her sight and hearing, but always tried to keep abreast of everything that was happening.
When Astrid turned 90, she appealed to her many fans not to send her gifts, but to send funds to a bank account for the construction of a children's medical center in Stockholm, where the writer herself sent an impressive amount.
Now this center is the largest in Northern Europe- is rightfully called the Astrid Lindgren Center.

Her books have been translated into more than 80 languages ​​and published in more than 100 countries.
It is said that if the entire circulation of Astrid Lindgren's books were placed in a vertical stack, it would be 175 times higher than the Eiffel Tower.

There is a museum of Astrid Lindgren's fairy tales "Junibacken" in Stockholm.
Nearby is the Astrid Lindgren Park, where you can run across the rooftops with Carlson, ride your own horse Pippi Longstocking and wander along Ulitsa Ubrazhniki.

The children's writer was posthumously nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
For the past ten years, there have been annual calls in the Swedish press to give Astrid Lindgren the Nobel Prize.
But children's writers have never been given this prize. Children's literature lives on its own. Perhaps because she faces not only literary tasks, but also pedagogical ones. But society always resists and lags behind.
Lindgren was never given the prize...

Oleg FOCHKIN

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD

Astrid with her older brother Gunnar

“From my childhood, I first of all remember not people, but the amazing and beautiful environment that surrounded me. With age, the sensations become less and less vivid, but then the whole world around was unimaginably rich and full of colors. Strawberries among the rocks, carpets of blue spring flowers, primrose meadows, blueberry thickets known only to us, a forest covered with moss, through which graceful pink flowers, Nas's paddocks, where we knew every path and every pebble like the back of our hands, a stream with water lilies, ditches, springs and trees - I remember all this much more clearly than people."

Nas's wonderful landscapes not only provided children with a unique playground, but also allowed them to develop a vivid imagination. Little Ericssons tirelessly invented new exciting games with what they saw around them. The songs and prayers the children learned were also of no small importance for these games.
Amazing magic games.

“Oh, how we knew how to play! The four of us could play tirelessly from morning to night. All our games were fun and active, and sometimes even life-threatening, which we, of course, had no idea about at the time. We climbed the "The tallest trees and jumped between the rows of boards in the sawmill. We climbed high on the roof and balanced on it, and if only one of us stumbled, our games could stop forever."

One of the favorite games of the little Erikssons and their guests in Näs was the game “Don't step on the floor.” At the same time, all the children had to climb on the furniture in the bedroom without touching the floor at all. It is precisely this kind of game, but much later, that Pippi will offer to play to Tommy and Annike at Villa Hen.

“From the office door we had to climb onto the sofa, from there we had to climb to the kitchen door, and then to the dressing table and the work table. Then we could jump to dad’s bed, and from there to the upholstered ottoman, which we could move to the living room door, after why cross the open fireplace again to the study door.”

Another favorite game of Astrid and Gunnar was the wind-sail game.
The children had to run through all the rooms of the house, starting from different ends of it, and meet in the kitchen, where each had to poke the other in the stomach with a finger and shout “wind, wind!”
This is exactly what Emil and Ida play in the books about Emil from Lönnerberga.

There was an old elm tree in Näs, which Astrid and her brother and sisters called the “owl tree.”
The inside of the tree was completely hollow, and the children loved to play in it.
One day Gunnar climbed a tree, holding in his hands egg. He put the egg in the owl's nest, and twenty-one days later he found in it a newly hatched chicken, which his mother later bought from him for seventy-five öre.
Astrid retells this story to us in the book “We are all from Bullerby”, where little Bosse performs this trick of Gunnar.

However, at the beginning of the last century, children of farmers had to not only relax, but also do hard work. They planted turnips, weeded nettles from their gardens, and harvested crops.
Everyone was busy working on the farm: both the children of hired workers and the children of the owners.

“As was customary in those days, we were, of course, brought up from childhood with reverent fear and awe of the Lord. However, in free time no one was watching us, no one was telling us what to do. And we played, and played, and played... If we had the opportunity, we could play forever! "

According to Astrid herself, she very clearly remembered the moment when her childhood came to an end, and the terrible realization came to her that the games were over forever.

“I remember that moment very well. We really loved playing with the priest’s granddaughter when she came to Nas for the holidays. And then one summer, on her next visit, we got ready to start our regular games and suddenly discovered that it was no longer possible to play. It was a very strange feeling, and we felt very sad, because we had absolutely no idea what else we could do if not play".......

And a book, of course :)
A book written by the Amazing Storyteller Astrid Lindgren.

There are nine in it short tales. Not related to each other.
I always really loved “No Thieves in the Forest” and “Little Nils Carlson.”
The translation of fairy tales in the book is familiar from childhood - L. Braude.
And in “Princess...” and in “Beloved Sister” - E. Solovyova. However, I don’t remember whether I read these two fairy tales as a child...

Drawings in the book by Ekaterina Kostina. Vashchinskaya. Kostina-Vashchinskaya... I got confused with the change of her surnames :)
I dearly love her “crackle style” drawings :)
So there was no question about buying this book for me - Lindgren + Kostina = I’m happy :)

Well, about the publication.
It's very good! Large format, in a strong cover, on matte chalk, with large, bold font and excellent print quality.

I really approve of this book and shamelessly recommend it for purchase :)

Astrid Lindgren
"Little Nils Carlson"

Publisher - Makhaon
Year - 2015
Binding - cardboard with partial varnishing
Paper - coated
Format - encyclopedic
Pages - 128
Circulation - 8,000 copies

Translation - L. Braude, E. Solovyova
Artist - Ekaterina KOSTINA

The Astrid Lindgren Museum in Stockholm is located on the island of Djurgården. It is in the very center of the Swedish capital. It's called Junibakken. But this museum is completely different from what we are used to. There are no decorous shelves with exhibits, no signs “do not run” or “do not touch with hands.” Children's museums in Sweden, and especially Junibakken, are completely different. They are more like entertainment centers. Everything here is dedicated to making sure the kids have fun. Children can run, jump, have fun and grab everything with their hands. This is what the writer herself wished. Therefore, Junibakken is not only dedicated to Astrid Lindgren. But let's talk about this in more detail.

Astrid Lindgren Museum in Stockholm: how to get there

The island of Djurgården has a lot of greenery. There are several museums here - for example, Vasa, dedicated to ships, and an exposition of the northern countries, where there is a real shamanic drum. All of them are located in a green area called Galerparken. Most visitors get to children's museum on foot. After all, most often tourists come there who walk around the center of Stockholm. When you get to the island, you should turn right. And there you can easily find the Astrid Lindgren Museum following numerous signs.

Books by a famous writer became the main topic interesting exhibition. In addition, there is a monument to her in front of the entrance. Public transport stops near the island, as well as tourist buses. And you can get to the island itself by boat (river bus). The museum is open all year round. It is open from ten in the morning to five in the evening. In July, when the white nights arrive, the exhibition is extended until six in the afternoon.

Where fairy tales live

The Astrid Lindgren Museum in Stockholm was opened in 1996. More than four hundred thousand people come here every year. The museum is a real square with street lamps, But unusual houses. The heroes of fairy tales live there. But not only Astrid Lindgren's characters have a place there. There are the Moomins, Carlson, Pippi Longstocking, and other heroes of stories created by Swedish and Scandinavian fairy tale writers, for example, the Jack of All Trades, talking kitten Findus, and many others. Children can go into any house and meet all the characters, if they are at home, of course. They are not forbidden to cook in Mummy Mama's kitchen. And here they offer little visitors to ride on roller coasters, sit on a fairy tale throne, fly on an airplane and ride a Mulle Meka scooter. Here children often read the books themselves and look at illustrations for them made by the best artists, and are a little distracted from Internet games.

Train

Of course, children do not come to this museum alone, but with their parents. And if they already know all the fairy tales by heart or visited the Astrid Lindgren Museum in Stockholm a long time ago, when they themselves were still kids, then they help their offspring by standing in line for them on a special train. He's fabulous too. This train is considered the most interesting museum attraction. Its carriages give you the opportunity to travel to real world, created by a Swedish writer. They go up, down and turn so that little passengers can visit different scenes from the books. They are created from drawings famous artist, who was a friend of Astrid Lindgren and illustrated her fairy tales. But be aware that photography is not allowed here. During the trip, the guide reveals secrets fairyland. He speaks twelve different languages, including in Russian.

Pippi Longstocking's House

After the train excursion, the Astrid Lindgren Museum in Stockholm offers another interesting place for children. This is Villa "Chicken". This famous house, where Pippi Longstocking lives. There they can ride a horse with capital letters. After all, that's her name. The horse is the embodiment of Pippi's dream. This girl has amazing physical strength, and when she drinks coffee in the garden, she carries the animal with her. The horse lives on the terrace. There is also a theater in the house called “Junibakken”. Here the actors present different fairy tales and history.

Exhibitions, shops and restaurant

The Junibakken Museum, like all institutions this kind, has many additional interesting places. These are exhibitions. Unlike permanent exhibition they change and, as a rule, are playful. The restaurant, where parents and children grab a bite to eat after a busy excursion, looks like a traveling circus. In addition, they serve an excellent raspberry drink and delicious homemade buns. And from here it opens amazing view to Stockholm and its canals. What can visitors to a place like the Astrid Lindgren Museum take away with them? Books by the writer, of course, but there are also toys, various souvenirs, films, posters.

Astrid Lindgren Museum in Stockholm: reviews

People who come to Sweden with children often come here. Many tourists, including from Russia, who visited Junibakken, write that it has one and only drawback. These are huge queues. And the Swedish mentality is such that you can’t take a seat. If for some reason you had to move away, you must stand at the end again. But in all other aspects, this museum is, according to visitors, simply a fabulous paradise for children. Here, adults can plunge headlong into the world of Scandinavian fantasy. But they feel a little sad, because they understand that they can’t get their childhood back. And the kids are just happy here. It is very difficult for mothers to take their children away from here after excursions. Children are ready to spend the whole day here and are completely delighted. The park around the museum is also very beautiful, especially in summer. Flowering trees, bushes,

Stockholm always wants to be called a city of blue bloods. The first thing that attracts people to the Swedish capital is true Swedish sophistication and aristocracy. Stockholm is a city you always want to return to. And when you arrive again, you realize that this city is completely unfamiliar to you.

The waters of the Baltic and Lake Mälaren mix in the local canals. And on the streets of this northern city almost no cars and people. Many people associate Stockholm with order and organization. It's also extremely clean. Therefore, it seems that Stockholm is still very young. And only the roofs of the churches, green with time, remind us of the age of the Swedish capital. And the history of Stockholm began back in the thirteenth century. The city of Gamla Stan grew up on a small island. Now it is also simply called Old city. This is exactly the area that tourists usually like so much.

As in many European capitals, tourists here love to walk along the narrow streets. You can while away the time in numerous shops and restaurants. The residence of the Swedish king Charles VI Gustov is located in Gamla Stan. By the way, anyone can see the monarch; he takes part in the changing of the guard ceremony. And you can visit the royal apartments any day. Although the palace serves as the working residence of the king, it is always open to tourists. Stockholm is located on fourteen islands. That's why there are so many bridges, dozens of yachts and boats moored along the shore. And they look no less organic here than parking lots. They say that for every seven Swedes there is one boat. Crossing the next bridge, we find ourselves in another part of the city on the knightly city. Here we see a monument to the real knight Birger Jarl. He keeps the Swedish monarchs calm. The Swedes love their monarchs very much.

Walking around Stockholm you can collect good collection photographs of slightly greener Swedish kings. Let’s say right away that it is simply impossible to visit all the islands of Stockholm in one trip. But the Swedes figured out how to make the fate of confused tourists easier. For example, on one island they collected diverse and extraordinary museums. Once upon a time, Djurgerden was famous for its forests, where monarchs especially loved to hunt. And now tourists hunt here, though not for animals, but for adventure. One hunting trail leads to the museum under open air Skansen, the other to the Grenä Lumb amusement park. And the third is to a museum with one single exhibit. But what! Nowhere in the world will you find such a well-preserved seventeenth-century ship. Everything has been preserved here: from sculptures that decorated ships to personal belongings of sailors. It is interesting that this ship did not make a single trip. He drowned as soon as he left the port. This galleon was supposed to become the greatness of the Swedish Empire, but due to an error in ballast calculations, it sank in front of hundreds of people. The ship was raised to the surface only three hundred years later. If you come to Stockholm with your children, then believe me, they will not be bored. There is a lot of entertainment for children here. For example, Unibakken - Magic world fairy tales by Astrid Lindgren. Carlson and Pepe settled here long stocking and many other heroes of Astrid Lindgren and other Swedish writers. The writer herself wanted it that way. Astrid Lindgren personally took part in the creation of Junibakken. Therefore, all the characters here are as she imagined them. Many children come here especially to watch the performances. Every day new surprises await the kids. This is Pepe Longstocking's home. Astrid Lindgren named him Villa Chicken. Here you can run, jump and have fun. Junibakken is the only place in the world where children can do everything they are not allowed to do at home. Astrid Lindgren was the most famous child advocate. Thanks to her, Sweden became the first country in the world to legally prohibit all violence against children. And in Junibakken, fairy tales really come to life. All you have to do is get on the train and go on a fantastic journey.

How can you not get hungry after such impressions? In this fabulous restaurant everything is just for children.
Every year in Stockholm they award Nobel Prize. The ceremony will be held in a luxurious concert hall. And the banquet takes place in the blue hall of Stockholm City Hall. The town hall itself was built not so long ago, less than a hundred years ago.

We wish you good luck
In that unknown and new world,
So that you don't feel lonely,
So that the angels do not leave.

Biography

Biography of Astrid Lindgren - the story of a happy, kind, talented, hardworking woman. She was not only an amazingly talented writer, but also a kind of wonderful child psychologist. Her progressive - at that time - views on raising children were often met with hostility by conservative teachers and children's writers. They not only believed that Lindgren's stories were not instructive enough, but they were also convinced that they promoted permissiveness and disobedience. Nevertheless, Lindgren's fairy tales are still read by millions of adults and children, and Astrid Lindgren herself is popular not only in her country, but throughout the world.

Lindgren was born in a small Swedish town. After school, sixteen-year-old Astrid worked at a local newspaper, but soon a serious event occurred in her life - she became pregnant. Young unmarried girl, fearing condemnation, she left for Stockholm, with virtually no money or connections. There she continued to work, and when her son was born, she was forced to give the child to a foster family, since she would not be able to feed him. It was a difficult decision for Lindgren, but her quick marriage allowed her to take a boy named Lars into her family. IN next years She devoted herself entirely to caring for the house and children - in her marriage she had a daughter named Karen. It was Karen who inspired her mother, the future world famous writer for writing fairy tales. Often, when Karen was ill, Lindgren sat at her bedside and composed different stories to entertain my daughter. It was Karen who came up with the heroine Pippi Longstocking, and the mother just had to tell her daughter the story, and then write a book based on it that made the writer famous. Pippi wasn't the first literary experience Lindgren - in parallel with taking care of the house, Astrid wrote notes, small tales. The first book she published was the story “Britty-Marie Pours Out Her Soul,” which helped her get not only a contract, but also a position as an editor at the publishing house. Further takeoff in writer's biography Lindgren was already completely dependent on herself - a hardworking woman in 5-6 years wrote a trilogy about Pippi, several books for girls and plays, collections of fairy tales and many others. etc. A few years later, Lindgren's heroes helped the former housewife earn a huge fortune. Lindgren's books were filmed, plays were staged in theaters, translated into various languages ​​of the world, and the writer Lindgren herself became a very popular person in her country, known and loved by children and adults of any age.

Lindgren's death occurred at the age of 94. Lindgren's cause of death was natural, last years Throughout her life, Lindgren was ill and gradually faded away. Lindgren's funeral took place a month later, which is due to the peculiarities of the work of funeral services in Sweden. Lindgren's grave, according to her will, is located in the cemetery of her hometown Vimmerby.

Life line

November 14, 1907 Date of birth of Astrid Lindgren (Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Eriksson).
1926 Moving to Stockholm.
December 1926 Birth of Lindgren's son, Lars.
1927 Work at the Royal Automobile Club, meeting Sture Lindgren.
April 1931 Wedding with Sture Lindgren.
1934 Birth of daughter Karin.
1944 Prize for the story “Britt-Marie pours out her soul.”
1945 The publication of the book “Pippi Longstocking”, work as an editor of children's literature at the Raben and Sjögren publishing house.
1946 Publication of the story “Kalle Blumkvist plays.”
1947 Film adaptation of the stories about Kalla Blumkvist.
1952 Death of Astrid Lindgren's husband.
1954 Writing the story “Mio, my Mio!”
1955 Release of the book “Baby and Carlson”.
1958 Lindgren was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal.
1962 Release of the book “Carlson, who lives on the roof, has arrived again.”
1968 Release of the book “Carlson, who lives on the roof, plays pranks again.”
1969 Getting Swedish state prize on literature.
1969 Production by the Royal drama theater"Carlson, who lives on the roof."
1978 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for the story “The Brothers Lionheart”, award of the Albert Schweitzer Medal.
1984 Soviet film adaptation of the book "Pippi Longstocking".
1987 Release of the film “Mio, my Mio!”, filmed by the USSR jointly with Norway and Sweden.
January 28, 2002 Date of death of Astrid Lindgren.
March 8, 2002 Funeral of Astrid Lindgren.

Memorable places

1. Vimmerby, Sweden, where Lindgren was born.
2. Astrid Lindgren's house in Stockholm.
3. St. Nicholas Cathedral in Stockholm, where farewell to Astrid Lindgren took place.
4. Amusement park "Astrid Lindgren's World", located in Vimmerby.
5. Monument to Astrid Lindgren in Stockholm near the Lindgren Museum.
6. Astrid Lindgren's Junibacken Museum in Stockholm.
7. Cemetery of the city of Vimmerby, where Lindgren is buried.

Episodes of life

Once Astrid Lindgren wrote a letter to USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev with the words: “I’m afraid of war, and you?” Gorbachev responded to the world-famous children's writer: “Me too.”

Astrid Lindgren has always taken care of children. Her books were often instructive, and not so much for children as for their parents. The writer also founded a children's hospital near Stockholm. In 1978, when she received the Peace Prize, she gave a speech entitled “Not Violence.” In it, she told a story about a boy whom his mother wanted to punish and sent for the rods. The boy did not find the rod, but brought a stone to his mother, thinking that if his mother wanted to hurt him, then a stone would be suitable for this. Mom burst into tears and put the stone on the shelf. Lindgren concluded her speech with the words: “It would be nice for all of us to put a small pebble on the kitchen shelf as a reminder to our children and ourselves - no violence!”

Lindgren was not a politician, but had influence on political life her country, as she was a very respected person in Sweden. For example, her fairy tale about the cow contributed to the animal protection law, which even received the name “Lindgren’s Law.”

In the last years of her life, Lindgren was ill, she became blind and almost lost her sight, so she rarely went out anywhere and almost never gave interviews. Nevertheless, the writer tried to stay informed about what was happening in the world, and also annually personally presented the literature prize named in her honor.

Covenant

“Work has been my greatest pleasure all my life. In the evenings I thought with joy that tomorrow morning would come and I would be able to write again.”

“Fear a quiet life!”

TV show about Astrid Lindgren

Condolences

"In everything she did, common sense combined with directness and warmth, and in this she was unique.”
Suzanne Eman-Sunden, co-editor of the book about Astrid Lindgren

“The work of your famous compatriot is not only the property of Swedish literature. Several generations of children from many countries grew up on her surprisingly bright and witty fairy tales. They are known and loved in Russia. Better memory about Astrid Lindgren - wonderful writer and a truly great storyteller - there will be her books that teach us to rejoice and fantasize, to appreciate kindness and friendship.”
Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation

“Astrid Lindgren and her work meant a lot to all of us, children and adults. Her works delighted readers not only in Sweden, but throughout the world, awakening in them the most best feelings. The setting and characters of her fairy tales were so different from daily life that it was often impossible to predict what she would talk about. For my family and me, meetings with Astrid Lindgren, as well as with her fairy tales, were moments of celebration. We will all miss Astrid Lindgren, but we are glad that she lives on in Pippi Longstocking, Madiken, Mio, the Lionheart brothers and her other heroes. We want to thank Astrid Lindgren for her extensive and invaluable work throughout her life."
Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden