{"id":5635,"date":"2025-02-28T14:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/the-history-of-the-foundation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:50:51","slug":"the-history-of-the-foundation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/the-history-of-the-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Foundation for the preservation of Astrid Lindgren\u2019s works<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In 1996, The Foundation for the Preservation of Astrid Lindgren\u2019s Works was established in connection with an appeal to raise money for the construction of a permanent exhibition in Vimmerby about Astrid Lindgren\u2019s life and work.<\/p>\n

Purpose<\/strong>
\nThe Foundation shall highlight Astrid Lindgren\u2019s work in an exhibition hall owned by the Foundation and built in Vimmerby and award grants to those who, in the spirit of Astrid Lindgren, contribute to developing children\u2019s imaginations through literature, music, theatre, film or other artistic fields.<\/p>\n

Collection<\/strong>
\nOn the eve of Astrid Lindgren\u2019s 90th birthday on 14 November 1997, the Foundation\u2019s ambitions were realised by the fundraising campaign, which raised some SEK 4.8 million. A national gift of SEK 7.5 million and an EU grant of SEK 3.2 million brought the total amount raised to just over SEK 15 million. This made it possible to immediately begin construction of Astrid Lindgren\u2019s Farm, which was opened on the author\u2019s 91st birthday in 1998. The farm was built adjacent to Astrid Lindgren\u2019s World, and until 2006 the site was used for an exhibition reflecting Astrid Lindgren\u2019s work, upbringing and sources of inspiration.<\/p>\n

For the jubilee year of 2007, which would have marked Astrid Lindgren\u2019s 100th birthday, plans were made to create the new cultural centre, Astrid Lindgren\u2019s N\u00e4s, to include Astrid Lindgren\u2019s childhood home as well as the research centre and library in the former vicarage at N\u00e4s. The question was then raised as to whether the permanent exhibition about Astrid\u2019s life and work should also be located on the site.<\/p>\n

Astrid Lindgrens V\u00e4rld AB offered the Foundation the opportunity to build a new exhibition hall at N\u00e4s, in return for taking over the former Astrid Lindgren farm to house the new Seacrow Island setting. The proposal was accepted and the property swap completed. The new exhibition hall is called the Pavilion at Astrid Lindgren\u2019s N\u00e4s.<\/p>\n

A completely new exhibition about Astrid Lindgren\u2019s life and work has been produced and paid for by the Foundation. On 12 June 2007, Crown Princess Victoria opened the new cultural centre Astrid Lindgren\u2019s N\u00e4s, comprising the childhood home, the research centre and the new Pavilion, housing the major exhibition \u2018Astrid Lindgren and the Power of Stories\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Foundation currently rents the Pavilion and exhibition to Astrid Lindgren’s Vimmerby AB, which runs the public exhibition activities.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tillbaka till Stiftelsen<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5635","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5638,"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5635\/revisions\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}