Simon Small’s house

In Simon Small’s house, all children can experience what it is like to be as small as a pixie. Just do as Bertil did in the story the first time he went down the rat hole to Simon Small’s new home.

How does it feel to be just a hand tall?

Find out here. The furniture, the clothes, the matches, the raisins and meatballs, the cups and the sugar bowl, it’s all huge!

Do you know the secret word?

If you touch the nail at the entrance and say ‘Killevippen’, you will be transformed from normal size to tiny and you will be able to enter.

Visit Nils Karlsson-Pyssling

Nils Karlsson-Pyssling lives in a rat’s nest under the floor, downstairs. There is a sugar bowl to bathe in and a broken toothbrush that you can scrub yourself with. There are also matches to burn in the stove, raisins and a meatball. Outside the house there is large garden furniture.

Troublemaker Street

Maybe you’ve seen the films about Lotta? And maybe you think when you walk around here that everything looks familiar? Well, this is exactly what it looked like, the films were shot on this very street in the early 90s. Here you can go into the gardens, see inside the houses and look around and play. However, you can’t meet Lotta, Aunt Berg or any of the other characters.

Lotta’s house

Lotta lives in this house with her older brother Jonas and older sister Mia-Maria. She learnt to ride a bike on the street outside. And here she decorated the whole garden with chocolate gnomes and marzipan pigs from Vasily’s sweet shop one Easter Eve morning when the Easter Bunny didn’t come. It was outside Blomgren’s petrol station over on the corner that she found the Christmas tree that had fallen off a truck, on that sad day when her dad came home and said that all the trees in town were sold out.

Aunt Berg’s house

This is where Aunt Berg lives. Lotta often visits her and crawls under the fence through the hole that Aunt Berg’s dog Skotty dug. Aunt Berg is so kind and Lotta, Jonas and Mia-Maria usually get to look at all her treasures in the cabinet. When Lotta became terribly angry, as she sometimes does, and left home, she moved into Aunt Berg’s storage loft at the back of the house.

Little Troublemaker Street

At Astrid Lindgren’s World you will also find Little Troublemaker Street. This is a place for play. Here you will find Lotta’s and Aunt Berg’s houses, which you can furnish by moving the different items in the houses around, or you can visit a small version of A. Larsson’s bakery.

Noisy Village

The books about the Children of Noisy Village are about Astrid’s own childhood. She borrowed the setting from where her father grew up. We in turn have borrowed it from Astrid, to create a place where children can play and roam as much as they like, just as Astrid Lindgren did when she was little. As she said herself “And we played and played and played. It’s a wonder we didn’t play ourselves to death!”.

Junedale

Madicken is fearless and often ends up in tricky situations that she finds various clever ways of escaping.

Visit Mardie

Welcome to Mardie’s House. Here you can set the table for a party in the kitchen on the ground floor or sneak up to Mardie and Lisabet’s bedroom upstairs. Maybe you want to try on a Mardie dress?
In Lugnet, Abbe’s house, there is a stove and baking trays to bake pretzels in and on.

Play in Junedale

The country store is of course perfect to play shop in. Buy goods for Junibacken or sell the pretzels you baked in Abbe’s house! You have to go to school too. Try out the school desks from the past and practice writing on the blackboard.

The Tiny, Tiny Town

This is what the small town of Vimmerby looked like when Astrid Lindgren grew up there at the beginning of the century. In many of her books there are small town settings that take their inspiration from her childhood town of Vimmerby. Here you’ll find the shop where Pippi bought 18 kilos of sweets, Båtsmansbacken where Kalle Blomkvist sneaked around, Borgmästargården where Emil rode in on Lukas in the middle of a party, and the square where Brenda Brave sold her peppermint rock.

Brenda Brave’s grandmother’s house

Brenda was left here with her grandmother in a basket when she was only three months old, because no one else wanted to take care of her. They live in the sweetest little house imaginable, on a somewhat hilly, cobbled street in the poorest part of town. Her Grandma decided that Brenda would be called Brenda Brave. She saw right away that Brenda would be a brave little girl, and so she might as well name her Brenda Brave from the start.

Play at Brenda Brave’s

Walk along the cute little street among the cute little houses. Once at the square, there is a market! There are four market stalls there that you can make your own. Why not sell candy canes?

To all play areas

Rasmus’ barn

It was in this little hay barn that Rasmus slept on that June night when he ran away, and where he met Paradise-Oskar. Together they set off walking along the roads of Astrid Lindgren’s World, and they can turn up just about anywhere.

Jump in the hay

But the safest place to meet them is near Rasmus’s barn. Here you can jump in the hay as children have always done in Småland, even though their parents told them not to.

Mattis Forest

Mattis Forest is a place full of strange creatures and fascinating things to discover. It is home to rump-goblins, gray dwarves and murktrolls. On the path from the Wolf’s Neck towards the fort, you can experience the mysterious forest up close. You might catch a glimpse of the glowing eyes of the gray dwarves through the mist or hear the strange enticing calls from underground creatures. And if you look really closely, you can probably see the entrance to one or two small rump-goblin nests. Where the path ends, you’re free to explore the forest on your own, with all its hiding places, ruins and other secrets.

Mattis Castle
Explore all the secret passages of Mattis Castle, the fort that split in half the night Ronja was born. This is what created Hell’s Mouth, which you can jump over if you dare. You can climb up the highest towers or down the deep tunnels under the fort. You can also try out Noodle Pete’s bed and find out what it’s like to be a prisoner in the robbers’ dungeon.

Read more about Ronja

Visit Pippi in Villa Villekulla

Villa Villekulla has three floors, and there’s enough space for all the children who want to visit Pippi’s home. There is plenty of room to play and lots to discover in the sitting room, in Pippi’s bedroom and in her kitchen. And if you’re brave enough, you can go up to Pippi’s attic and see all the things she has brought home from her travels on the seven seas. Pippi has promised that there are no ghosts there – at least not right now.

Sign up for the Hoppetossa

Captain Efraim Longstocking’s ship Hoppetossa is moored in the water nearby. The quickest way to the harbour from Villa Villekulla is probably via the slide from the second floor, straight out into the garden. If it’s a really hot day in the park, the water area can provide some extra cool relief.

Katthult

Here you can experience a farm as it looked at the turn of the century, stroll among the hay fields and hundred-year-old oak trees, enjoy the nature and look at the animals. Just like in the rest of the park, all children can play to their heart’s content in Katthult.

Have fun!

Here you’ll find a winding stream that flows into a shallow lake, an underground cellar that you can crawl into, and last but not least, Emil’s own woodshed, complete with his collection of wooden figures. And as anyone who has heard the stories about Emil knows, this is a place he often visits.

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