ABBA The Museum, Stockholm, Sweden



 

Visited: 2019

Museum type: Popular culture, history

Location: Stockholm

Highlights

Open late. At the time it closed around 8pm

Props from Mamma Mia movie

The ABBA puppets from the music video

Audio guide, though I cant remember if there was one when I visited in 2019

The displays are in English so isnt a problem in trying to translate the displays

 

I visited the museum in Stockholm on a whim late in the afternoon as I wasn’t sure what I would be expecting. The museum was more than my expectations since there were interactive displays and detailed information about the band members and their lives before during and after they broke up. I enjoyed myself looking at the displays especially when Australia was commented upon several times due to the weather and being attacked by moths. I wasn’t actually expecting to see the clothing worn in the Mamma Mia movies to be on display. Maybe it is better not having to know much about the band before visiting the museum and leave knowing just a little bit more about them.

 

I didn’t really pay much attention to the interactive parts of the museum like the extra member / singer of the band, where you could be another member of the band and sing with the 3D holograms. The four puppets from the music video ABBA made were in the museum with the albums the band had made, which I think included the various record covers. Awards like the ones presented to bands when they have sold certain numbers of records.

 

The gift shop has the usual trinkets with an ABBA theme including a Waterloo shirt I picked up mostly as I wanted to wear it while visiting the Waterloo battle site in Belgium. If you really wanted to follow in the footsteps of ABBA. There is a guidebook that takes you throughout Stockholm with locations of where photographs for the albums were taken. One way to visit the city if there is enough time.

 

Links

 

Abba the museum

https://abbathemuseum.com/en/

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