Group ABBA museum
   Photo: Museum of ABBA

Group ABBA museum is an exhibition that opened in Stockholm in May 2013 in a building next to the theme park Gröna Lund on Djurgården Island. Here the work of the famous group demonstrated in the modern interactive form. Visitors can not only feel like a "queen and king of dance", but in the studio and record their own songs, the performance ABBA. And one of the rooms even creates the illusion of your presence at a concert held at Wembley Stadium, among 50,000 other fans of the group.

The idea of ​​the museum, which was announced in 2006, belongs to Eve Vigenheym-Westman and Ulf Westman, which is inspired by the Beatles museum in Liverpool. The opening was to take place in 2008, and to the organizers, the museum had to attract half a million visitors a year. According to the original plan, the museum should be located in the former building of the customs of the Stockholm harbor, but after several years of financial problems, the project was abandoned in 2009 and the building was given a new, modern Museum of Photography.

On the resumption of plans to create a museum ABBA was announced October 3, 2012. According to Ulf Westman, it took them two years to convince four members of the Swedish pop group that the creation of the museum is a good idea.

ABBA is one of the most commercially successful pop groups of the 1970s. Formed in 1966 the group gained international fame in 1974 after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Waterloo. In their repertoire there are more than a dozen hits known around the world, such as SOS, Dancing Queen and Knowing Me, Knowing You. The group experienced a new surge in popularity due to the release of the 1999 musical Mamma Mia, entirely based on their songs.

The most valuable exhibits here are original outfits and instruments, handwritten lyrics, awards and other personal items that members of the group donated to the museum.

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