ABBA The Museum
ABBA the Museum is the official museum of the Swedish pop group ABBA, located in Stockholm, Sweden. The museum is currently under construction and scheduled to open in spring 2009.
History
Ewa Wigenheim-Westman and Ulf Westman, the two entrepreneurs behind the museum, were inspired to create an ABBA-themed museum after visiting the Beatles museum in Liverpool, England.[1] It took the pair two years to convince the members of ABBA that creating a museum would be a good idea.
The couple announced their plans for the museum on November 112006.
On May 222007, the founders announced the official site has been chosen for the museum. The 4000-square-metre museum will be located in a renovated warehouse on the south quay of central Stockholm, walking distance across from the Gröna Lund amusement park.[2] Four months later, in September, architects Peter Ullstad and Patrick Rehnberg were chosen to design the attraction.
ABBA the Museum is expected to open in the spring of 2009, with tickets on sale as of spring 2008. The founders estimate the once the museum opens its doors, it will attract half a millions visitors per year.[3]
Museum experience
The museum will house artifacts pertaining to the group such as their clothes, instruments, gold records[4] [5], as well as a café and the largest ABBA shop in the world.
ABBA the Museum will make use of the latest interactive technology, which will allow visitors of all ages to relive the group's history and to also sing and dance along with ABBA music.[6]
ABBA themselves have said jointly they feel the site "will be a fun and swinging museum to visit."[7]
External links
References
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