On Thursday 27 May at 10 AM, ABBA The Museum will open to visitors again – after being closed since November last year.
From the opening date, ABBA The Museum will be open Thursdays to Sundays between 10 AM and 4 PM, with the ambition to extend the opening days in July.
The museum shop will be open during the same times as the museum.

– After being closed for almost 200 days we are now getting ready to reopen and we are really looking forward to welcoming visitors again. We can´t wait to be able to exceed our visitors’ expectations and let them enjoy the music, the magic and the memories of ABBA, to have them once again Walk In and Dance Out. We will open in a responsible way and have adapted the museum, due to the pandemic. A visit to ABBA The Museum is safe and secure for both our visitors and our staff, says Caroline Fagerlind, Museum Director ABBA The Museum.
She continues:

– I´m also glad to share the good news that we have prolonged our popular temporary exhibition MAMMA MIA! Behind The Movie Magic, an exhibition that takes the visitors behind the scenes of movie making, until December this year.

ABBA The Museum have a new ticketing system that gives visitors the possibility to cancel their tickets, by themselves, up to 24 hours before their visit, to encourage visitors to stay home if they have any symptoms. To ensure the maximum visitors allowed and keep an even flow in the exhibition we use slot-times and only allow pre-booked tickets online.

ABBA The Museum has installed new hand sanitizer stands that are placed in strategic locations around the museum, plexiglass protection between staff and visitors in the cashiers and visitors will be helped to think about distance and caution by the museum’s staff, markings on the floor and clear signage throughout the museum.

More about the museum’s precautionary measures, due to covid-19, can be read on ABBA The Museum’s website; abbathemuseum.com

ABBA The Museum is more than an ordinary museum. Naturally, the members’ costumes, gold records, original items, memorabilia, and much, much more are here. But at this museum you are an important part of the experience! We simply want you to experience the feeling of being the 5th ABBA member.

To find out what you would look like in their legendary stage costumes, to sing at the Polar Studio and to enter the stage together with the band.

Photo: Albin Karlén

It is with extraordinary pleasure that ABBA The Museum now presents its latest installation, “ABBA Voyage”. A project that the ABBA members worked on for many years and which initially involved recreating the four members as digital 3D avatars, in order to be able to set up a live concert where everything but ABBA was live. The project progressed, and suddenly the group had an idea that it would be fun to create some new music for the concert.

In the museum’s new installation, there are interviews with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. Ludvig Andersson and Svana Gisla participate as producers of the project, and last but not least, creative director Ben Morris talks about the huge technical production of the show. Needless to say, the video with the new music is also shown.

The museum’s own contribution to the installation is a loving tribute to the fans who, in the mid-1980s, started a campaign involving letters that were sent to ABBA’s record label Polar. In the letters, fans wrote of their great desire to get one last album, or at least some new songs, “-we’ve been waiting for six years”…!

– It´s tremendously exciting for us to finally be able to tell our new and old visitors about the ABBA Voyage project. This is a cool journey, where Stockholm and ABBA The Museum act as “the road to London”, to the concert in the newly built arena. The album of letters, created by the fans who longed for new music in the 1980s, is now on display in the museum. A warm and loving tribute to all of ABBA’s loyal fans,” says Ingmarie Halling, Creative Director & Curator at ABBA The Museum.

– What can you say? Suddenly, it happens! Something that a lot of people thought would never happen. Now, in addition to showing and telling you about ABBA’s history, we can also present what is happening in both the present and in the future. Because ABBA’s musical journey just keeps going,” says Caroline Fagerlind, Museum Director at ABBA The Museum.

Experience the entire history and future of ABBA at ABBA The Museum.

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About ABBA The Museum

ABBA The Museum is no ordinary museum. It’s not just about the original costumes, gold records and so many other wonderful items of memorabilia – it’s about you! 

Feel what it’s like to be onstage with ABBA, to sing at the famous Polar Studio or to dress up in those legendary costumes (virtual).

There’s so much to experience… you’ll have the time of your lives!

VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE

ABBA THE MUSEUM

Experience the Stockholm archipelago with breathtaking views and the vibration of the helicopter beneath you. Arrival The Experience is a VR helicopter ride from ABBA The Museum out to the island of Viggsö, where music magic happened! The ticket to Arrival The Experience cannot be used without an entrance ticket to ABBA The Museum. The experience lasts for approximately 3 minutes. 

Arrival The Experience is temporarily closed due to Covid 19

EXPERIENCE

ABBA THE MUSEUM

At ABBA The Museum, the story about Björn, Benny, Frida and Agnetha and their lives starts from the very beginning, when they were kids. What was life like growing up? When did music enter their lives? How did they meet? And how did they come together as the pop group ABBA? Here you can explore all of this and more, while walking in the footsteps of ABBA.

An area of ABBA The Museum is specially reserved for temporary exhibitions. Themes for these temporary exhibits are wide ranging – with anything related to music and by extension ABBA naturally being of particular interest to us. 

A new temporary exhibition will be revealed at a later date.

BREAKING UP IS NEVER EASY…

… and we never really broke up. It was a gradual thing. We didn’t say good-bye. It was more like: “Let’s go out there and try the new stuff we’ve been wanting to do for so long and then we’ll get back together again when the time is right.” And we did all that other stuff, but the time somehow never seemed right to get back together again. By the mid-80s we all thought ABBA would fade into oblivion. Little did we I know …

The aim of the Foundation ABBA The Museum is to preserve and publicly display and through other means make objects of all kinds available, related to the music group ABBA and to Swedish music life. 

The purpose of the foundation is to receive and administer donations of objects that are relevant for the foundation’s purpose.

The foundation accepts money contributions in order to, when an opportunity occurs, buy objects that are available for sale on the market.

In the future, the foundation will contribute to make submitted theses, scanned newspaper clippings etc. publicly available as working materials for students, scientists, or media (via login).

Contact: foundation@abbathemuseum.com

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