Editing Miffy (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Sculptuur 'Nijntje' door Marc Bruna, Nijntjepleintje, Utrecht.jpg|thumb|right|260x260px|Miffy statue at the Nijntjepleintje ("Little Nijntje Square") in [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]], the Netherlands.]]
In the early 1990s, an image of Miffy holding an [[adjustable spanner]] coyly behind her back appeared on flyers produced by people taking [[direct action]] against the [[UK]] government's road building program. This unauthorised use of the character spread<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/2879 |title=Miffed by Miffy, Earth First! Action Reports |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301140718/http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/2879 |archive-date=2012-03-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Miffy became a [[mascot]] for groups involved in radical ecological direct action.

In Bruna's hometown, [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]], there is a square named after Nijntje, the Nijntjepleintje (lit: Little Nijntje Square, to retain the rhyme) and in 2006, the [[Centraal Museum]] opened a permanent exhibition, the ''dick bruna huis'' (Dick Bruna house). Bruna distributed all DVDs from miffy with [[Warner Home Video]]. Later in 2015, Bridge Entertainment DVD took bruna home video.<ref>[http://centraalmuseum.nl/en/visit/locations/dick-bruna-house/ ''dick bruna huis''.]
{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420070814/http://centraalmuseum.nl/en/visit/locations/dick-bruna-house/ |date=2015-04-20 }} Centraal Museum, Utrecht.<!--PLEASE LEAVE THIS IN LOWER CASE! check reference for explanation--></ref>

Miffy celebrated her fiftieth birthday in 2005. This was marked in cities across the globe, for example, at the [[Manchester Art Gallery]] in England. She also serves a "celebrity character spokesperson" for [[UNICEF]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nls.uk/news/press/2007_03_16.html |title=Miffy exhibition comes to Edinburgh |date=March 16, 2007 |publisher=[[National Library of Scotland]] |access-date=20 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711114730/http://www.nls.uk/news/press/2007_03_16.html |archive-date=July 11, 2009 }}</ref>

Miffy's namesakes include a new species of [[Psocoptera|booklouse]] from [[Peru]]. The insect was given the scientific name ''Trichadenotecnum miffy'' in 2008, because its epiproct, an appendage on its abdomen, resembles a small rabbit.<ref name=booklouse>Yoshizawa, K., et al. (2008). [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20081031165306/http://insect3.agr.hokudai.ac.jp/psoco-web/pdf/2008zjls/Tricha-New%20World-revised%20ms.rtf.pdf Systematics and biogeography of the New World species of ''Trichadenotecnum'' Enderlein (Insecta: Psocodea:"Psocoptera": Psocidae).] ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' 153(4) 651-723. (pg. 87)</ref>

In July 2014, Bruna announced his retirement; the rights to the Miffy character were not sold.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nltimes.nl/2014/07/30/nijntje-creator-dick-bruna-retires/ | title=Nijntje creator Dick Bruna retires | work=NLTimes | date=30 July 2014 | access-date=31 July 2014 | author=Zech, Maxime}}</ref> On 16 February 2017, Dick Bruna died at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://nos.nl/artikel/2158702-tekenaar-dick-bruna-89-overleden.html | title=Tekenaar Dick Bruna (89) overleden | publisher=Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) | access-date=17 February 2017}}</ref>

In 2021, Miffy collaborated with Converse<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-23 |title= Pop Trading X Miffy|url=https://www.converse.com.au/pop-trading-x-miffy |website=Converse}}</ref> to capsule menswear collection in the Netherlands to celebrate the creator of Miffy, Dick Bruna. In December 2022, Tommy Hilfiger announced its new collection with Miffy<ref>{{Cite web |last=Elizabeth |first=Joanna |date=2022-12-20 |title=Tommy Hilfiger & Miffy Take on the Lunar New Year in Style |url=https://www.fashiongonerogue.com/tommy-hilfiger-miffy-lunar-new-yar-2023/}}</ref> as the main attraction for the new partnership in celebration of the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit.