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Pelle Svanslös Hus is a fairy tale museum.
It is a house dedicated to saga and to children’s ability to live in a world of fantasy.
In this house you walk right in to the streets of Pelle Svanslös (Pelle No -Tail). If you turn to the right at the beginning of the street you will find your self in the beauty parlour of cat Gullan. She is a generous cat and ready to supply the young visitors with a nice cattish make up and she will lend them clothes to dress up in. (Naturally nobody has to dress up or get a make up).
With or without make up they are all welcome to start playing in the houses of the different cats:
- I he gentle home of Pelle and Maja; in the ruffy room of Mean Cat Måns; at the police office and in the little shop where fish and other necessities are sold to the cats.
Pelle Svanslös Hus is not a very big house but children (and quite a lot of adults) generally find a lot to do here. It is advisable to plan for a stay of at least 1 hour (Many of our visitors stay all day).
Fortunately this is a house where all family members - from small children to grand grandmother/-father - can have a nice stay. While the children play there is plenty of time to sit down in our café or - in summertime - under the trees in our garden. (For those who need to connect with the outdoor world, they are welcome to bring their laptop.) For the rest of us Pelle Svanslös Hus is a little bit of quite another world.
Who is Pelle Svanslös?
But then ... who is this Pelle Svanslös?
Well: Once upon a time there was this little, quite ordinary looking cat Pelle
He looked like most other cats but for one minor detail: Pelle had no tail. A rat (!) bit it of when Pelle was a kitten.
Due to his curiosity, Pelle came to Uppsala (He wanted to see what a car looked like from the inside and then all of a sudden it took off and he saw the countryside disappear behind him).
In Uppsala he came to live in a nice family but he had no friends. Especially one cat, Måns, mocked him, and he had a lot of followers. But - as this is a fairy tale - everything turned out all right any way.
Pelle met the cute lady cat Maja, and the good-hearted Trisse and soon he had a large number of friends, never though Måns, nor Bill and Bull, the non-thinking friends of Måns.
The story about Pelle Svanslös was published in 1939 the first year of world war two. Månses talk about the non-worthy cats without tale bear some resemblance to what was said by dictators from different part of the world at the time. Pelle Svanslös was tremendously popular from the start. He is one of the best-known and well-loved characters in Swedish children's literature. Welcome here to meet him!
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