Moomin mugs 1990's
The Moomin mugs' story began in the early 1990s as Arabia asked illustrator Tove Slotte to design Moomin themes on the mugs from Arabia's Teema tableware series. Tove Jansson's original illustrations from her Moomin stories were an ever-inspiring source and still are today.
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1990–1993 Mug Green
1990–1993 Mug Rose
1990–1996 Mug Blue
1990–1996 Mug Yellow
1991–1999 Dark Blue
1991–1996 Dark Green
1991–1999 Dark Yellow
1991–1996 Dark Rose
1996–2002 Drawing
1996–2002 Peace
1996–2002 Office
1996 Love
1997–2002 Christmas Greeting
1999–2013 Moominpappa Thinking
1999–2013 Moominmamma and Berries
1999–2012 Moomintroll on Ice
1999–2007, 2011Little My Sliding
1999–2000 Millennium
1990–1993 Mug Green The first Moomin mug produced in the shape of Arabia's Teema series, aka the Green Comic Strip. The illustration is based on the comic story Moomin Begins a New Life, where a prophet arrives in Moominvalley. The residents begin to follow his doctrine for true happiness and live on nature’s terms.
Moomin mugs 2000s
After the turn of the millennium and a successful decade that started the Moomin mug boom, many new Moomin characters were introduced. In 2006, Arabia also launched their bi-annual seasonal collections, featuring active summer and winter scenes and making way for rarer characters on Moomin mugs.
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2001–2012 Snorkmaiden
2001–2021 Stinky
2002–2014 Snufkin
2002–2009, 2011 Family
2002–2008 Sniff
2004 Fazer
2004, 2005 Christmas Mug
2004–2013 Fillyjonk
2004–2013 Hemulen
2005 Moomintroll Daydreaming
2005– Groke
2005–2017 Thingumy and Bob
2006–2015 Too-ticky
2006 Dive
2006 Dive with Seashells
2006 Winternight
2007– Hattifatteners
2007 Dolphin Dive
2007 Snow Lantern
2008– Sniff Turquoise
2008 On the Beach
2008–2014 Little My
2008– Mymble
2008 Winter Bonfire
2009 Siesta
2009–2020 Inspector
2009–2013 Adventure
2009 Jouluyllätys
2001–2012 Snorkmaiden After a two-year break, Arabia released a new Moomin Classics character mug, Snorkmaiden. In the front, we see Snorkmaiden rummaging through a treasure chest. On the backside, she's lying in a flower meadow, perhaps dreaming of noble princes, which is typical of her.
Moomin mugs 2010–2015
By the 2010s, many previously released Moomin mugs had already become collectors' highly sought-after favourites. In the new decade, limited and special editions just grew the enthusiasm – not only in Finland, but all around the world.
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2010 Night Sailing
2010–2019 Muddler
2010 Rose Garden
2010 Skiing Competition
2011–2019 Fuzzy
2011 Soap Bubbles
2011 Winter Games
2012 Hurray!
2012– Mymble's Mother
2012 Primadonna's Horse
2012 Stockmann 150
2012 Winter Forest
2013–2019 Snorkmaiden Pink
2013–2018 Moomintroll Turquoise
2013 Snorkmaiden and Poet
2013– Adventure Move
2013 Under the Tree
2014 Tove's Jubilee
2014 Tove's Jubilee (with Glasses)
2014 Sailing with Nibling and Too-ticky
2014–2022 Moominpappa Dark Blue
2014–2020 Moominmamma Apricot
2014–2015 Skiing with Mr. Brisk
2015– Snufkin Green
2015–2021 Little My Red
2015– Moominhouse
2015 Moment on the Shore
2015 Keep waters clean
2015–2016 Hibernation
2010 Night Sailing The Night Sailing mug was launched to celebrate the 65 years since the publishing of the first Moomin novel, The Moomins and the Great Flood, although the lovely archipelago scene with a pastel pink sky is adapted from the comic Moomin and the Sea and the novel Finn Family Moomintroll.
Moomin mugs 2016–2019
The latter half of the 2010s was a time of specialties, characters' first appearances, and the first-ever Moomin's Day mug that sold out in minutes.
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2016 Our Coast
2016– Too-ticky Violet
2016– Ancestor Black
2016 Midsummer
2016–2017 Snow Horse
2017 Summer Theatre
2017 Moominvalley
2017– True to Its Origins
2017–2018 Spring Winter
2018– Hobgoblin Purple
2018– Thingumy and Bob Green
2018 Going on Vacation
2018– Friendship
2018 Moomin's Day
2018–2019 Light Snowfall
2019– Moomintroll Grass Green
2019– Ninny Powder
2019–2022 Moominvalley Park Japan
2019 Evening Swim
2019 The Last Dragon
2019 The Golden Tale
2019 Midwinter
2019 Night of the Groke
2019– Sleep Well
2019–2020 Crown Snow-load
2016 Our Coast Our Coast mug is the second one produced for the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation and their campaign to save the Baltic Sea. On the mug, Snorkmaiden is filtering black, oil-looking substance from the sea.
Moomin mugs 2020–2022
The early 2020s was a delight – especially for tea drinkers! Along with the new mug releases in the continuous collections, Arabia introduced the bigger 0.4-litre mugs with a series illustrated with familiar 1990s motifs as well as the all-new Alphabets collection. At the end of 2022, the beloved illustrator Tove Slotte retired after a decades-long career designing Arabia's Moomin items.
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2020– Snorkmaiden Lila
2020– Misabel Yellow
2020 Relaxing
2020 The Fire Spirit
2020 Moominmamma's Mural
2020–2021 Snow Blizzard
2021– Moominmamma Marmelade
2021– Fillyjonk Grey
2021 Together
2021– In the Mountains
2021–2022 Snow Moonlight
2021 Moomin's Day
2021– Little My and Meadow
2021– Stinky in Action
2022 Fishing
2021– Mug Yellow 0.4L 2021– Mug Blue 0.4L
2022– Mug Green 0.4L
2022– Mug Rose 0.4L
2022 ABC Snufkin / Red Cross
2022 ABC Moomintroll / Red Cross
2022–2023 Winter Wonders
2020– Snorkmaiden Lila In 2020, the Snorkmaiden mug was replaced with a new motif and colours. Trying to blend in with the local high society’s luxurious ways, Snorkmaiden shops all kinds of fancy things, such as her first-ever lipstick that we see her holding on the front of the mug. On the turn side, we see her try on a bikini.
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In 2023, new magical winds started blowing. Arabia celebrated their 150th anniversary and introduced the first mug design, Journey, by illustrator Parvati Pillai from the freshly-appointed in-house design team. The "by" was dropped from Arabia's Moomin brand name and logo, and the Journey mug became the first one with the new Moomin Arabia bottom stamp.
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2023– Garden Party
2023– Moominpappa Grey
2023– Hemulen Yellow 2023– Moominvalley Park Japan 2023
2023 Sea Breeze Platinum
2023 Sea Breeze
2023 Journey
2024 Peace 0.4L
2024 Love 0.4L
2023– Garden Party In the back story of the colourful Summer Seasonal 2023, Little My finds exotic seeds, and the Moomins throw them here and there. Moominvalley turns into a jungle overnight. Stinky releases hungry tigers and other wild animals from a zoo. To his surprise, they become friends with the moomins.
Alphabet mugs 2022–
he Alphabet Collection with bigger Moomin mugs invites you to set the table with meaningful words and surprise your family & friends with the mugs with their initials. New letters are introduced every year until the alphabet is complete. The letters paired with Moomin characters are based on Tove Jansson's hand-drawn lettering appearing, e.g. in Moomin maps. The collection is part of Moomin Characters' Reading, Writing and the Moomins initiative, spreading the joy of reading and writing.
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2022– Mug 0.4L ABC L
2022– Mug 0.4L ABC O
2022– Mug 0.4L ABC V
2022– Mug 0.4L ABC E
2023– Mug 0.4L ABC H
2023– Mug 0.4L ABC M
2023– Mug 0.4L ABC F
2023– Mug 0.4L ABC A
2023– Mug 0.4L ABC I
2023– Mug 0.4L ABC Y
2023– Mug 0.4L ABC R
2023– Mug 0.4L ABC N
2023– Mug 0.4L ABC D
2023– Mug 0.4L ABC S
2022– Mug 0.4L ABC L If four letters can change the world, imagine what you could do with the whole alphabet! The first Alphabet mugs, L, O, V, and E tell us what the whole collection is about. They invite us to express big emotions and create meaningful words. The L mug features Moominmamma knitting a sock.
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