# Tove Jansson and her Families

This museum exhibition at the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London is the first in the UK to look at Tove Jansson as an illustrator. It brings together more than 100 sketches, paintings, illustrations and photographs, among them drawings that have not been shown before.

- Type: Museum
- When: Saturday 21 November 2026 until Nov 21 – May 9
- Where: Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, 1 Myddelton Passage, London EC1R 1AG
- Artists: Tove Jansson
- Part of: [London](https://artweekguide.com/london)
- Event's own page: https://qbcentre.org.uk/journal/winter-exhibitions-just-announced
- On Art Week Guide: https://artweekguide.com/events/tove-jansson-and-her-families

## From the organiser

The UK's first exhibition focusing on Tove Jansson as an illustrator, with over 100 sketches, paintings, illustrations and photographs, including previously unseen drawings.

## Also on Saturday 21 November

- **All day** · [Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector](https://artweekguide.com/events/peggy-guggenheim-in-london-the-making-of-a-collector) — Museum at Royal Academy of Arts. An exhibition at the Royal Academy on Guggenheim Jeune, the gallery Peggy Guggenheim ran at 30 Cork Street in 1938–39. About a hundred works from its original shows are gathered, including pieces by Kandinsky, Hepworth and Moore. It is organised with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
- **All day** · [Van Eyck: The Portraits](https://artweekguide.com/events/van-eyck-the-portraits) — Museum at The National Gallery. A museum exhibition at the National Gallery in London, gathering every surviving painted portrait by Jan van Eyck. It is the first show to unite all of them. Entry is by ticket.