This week Peter visited the ABBA Museum in Stockholm. The museum opened in May 2013 and we have been thinking about visiting it ever since. Isn't it strange that you are so bad at getting away to things in your own city ...!? A nice and interesting museum! Have you been here?
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The story of ABBA
As you walk through the ABBA Museum, you can follow the full story of the ABBA members' career. How did this saga really start? Who were ABBA before their breakthrough? It was their victory in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 that made them world stars. Before that, Benny Andersson was known with the Hep Stars. At the ABBA Museum in Stockholm you will find lots of music history and memories!
Songwriting
Agneta and Björn bought a summer house on Viggsö and here, with the archipelago as a backdrop, many of ABBA's songs were written. Frida and Benny soon found a summer house on the other side of the same island. At the ABBA Museum in Stockholm, you can see what it looked like in the room on Viggsö, where so many famous songs were written... Doesn't it feel very Swedish?
Everything from instruments to costumes
The museum also houses all sorts of (and impossible!) artefacts from the lives and careers of the four members - everything from instruments to crazy stage costumes. You'll also find things like gifts and letters from fans, private photos, gold discs and album covers. Among other things. In addition, you can become active in the story yourself, for example by trying on costumes virtually or by singing or playing.
Exhibitions at the ABBA Museum in Stockholm
The ABBA Museum has a space for temporary exhibitions. Most of these temporary exhibitions have a theme related to music and, by extension, to ABBA. Peter ended up here in the context of one such exhibition, namely the exhibition of the Claes af Geijerstam's unique guitars.
See more at the ABBA Museum in Stockholm
If you come in a group, you can book a special guided tour of the museum. The museum also organises various current events and shows. Check out the website to see what's coming up!
Have you been to the ABBA Museum in Stockholm? What are your memories of ABBA?
Find the ABBA Museum in Stockholm
- Location: The ABBA Museum in Stockholm is located at Djurgårdsvägen 68 on Djurgården, not far from Gröna Lund.
- Bus or tram: Take bus number 67 or tram number 7 to the Liljevalchs/Gröna Lund stop.
- Ferry: You can also travel by the Djurgården ferry or the ferry M/S Emelie and get off at Allmänna Gränd.
Guide: Opening hours and prices
- Opening hours: The museum is open most days of the year. The exact opening hours vary throughout the year. Please check the current opening hours on the museum's website.
- Prices: Adults pay SEK 250, children aged 7-15 pay SEK 95 and students (must show a valid student card) pay SEK 175 (2019). A family ticket costs SEK 595, which includes admission for up to two adults and four children aged 7-15. Please note that prices are subject to change. Please check the current prices on the museum's website.
- Payment: It is not possible to pay with cash at the museum. You need a debit or credit card.
- Service: There is a small museum shop. The Pop House Hotel, in the same building as the museum, has a restaurant.
- Accessibility: There are lifts to all floors and therefore the entire museum can be visited with a wheelchair, permobile or walker. Personal assistants and companions are provided free of charge.
- Read more: You can find more information at the museum's website.
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Mr Nils-Åke Hansson says:
The ABBA Museum in Stockholm is on the To Do list.
28 January 2018 - 10:31
Helena says:
It's easy for that list to get long ... 😉 .
28 January 2018 - 18:51
Ditte says:
I have been here a few times and if you have the opportunity, I think it is definitely worth both one and several visits.
It's a real piece of musical history!
28 January 2018 - 10:34
Helena says:
Wow, I don't understand how you have time for everything! 🙂 Yes, it's music history!
28 January 2018 - 18:51
Britt-Marie Lundgren says:
I recognise this: you read up on and visit all the sights far away but often miss what you have in the immediate vicinity. We ended up at the ABBA museum this summer when our German friends were here. When they got to choose what a day in Stockholm should include, they chose ABBA and the Old Town with the castle.
In any case, it was very nice and worth seeing.
For some reason, we always end up at Fotografiska when we are in Stockholm, so also this weekend; just say Chen Man, absolutely incredible!
28 January 2018 - 11:31
Helena says:
It can be very good to have foreign guests sometimes! 🙂 I have not seen Chen Man at Fotografiska, but will of course be a little curious now! 😉
28 January 2018 - 18:53
Anna, Travel on a Cloud says:
Nice to hear about the museum! They were my big idols during the 70s and 80s. There was a lot of miming with the hairbrush ... 😉 May well make a visit in the future! I agree that you are often bad at doing things in your own city.
28 January 2018 - 17:32
Helena says:
Of course you have to visit Anna! And yes, I feel like there are a lot of things that we don't make time for in Stockholm... It's silly not to take advantage of it when it's close by!
28 January 2018 - 18:54
Ruth in Virginia says:
I love "FERNANDO"!!!
Just listened.
28 January 2018 - 17:35
Helena says:
Great to hear!!! 🙂
28 January 2018 - 18:55
BP says:
Have read and seen so much about the museum on different blogs that I almost don't need to visit it irl anymore;-)
28 January 2018 - 17:48
Helena says:
Haha, that's one way to look at it too 😉.
28 January 2018 - 18:57
Alexandra says:
I have visited it once, but would love to go again! It was fun and interactive I think 😀.
28 January 2018 - 18:47
Helena says:
Always fun with museums that are a bit interactive! 🙂
28 January 2018 - 18:57
Lena - good for the soul says:
It really is an unexpectedly good museum, I think. Would love to visit it again!
Hug Lena
28 January 2018 - 21:58
Comsi comsa says:
Was there when it was quite newly opened. Happy to go again and happy to recommend it.
29 January 2018 - 0:17
Emma, sun like sun? says:
You should go there, you were like ABBA when you were little. I was seven years old when Tiger was on the wallpaper. Yes, there was also ABBA, at least on the wall although not as wallpaper. I firmly believe that the posters were thrown away when we moved to Spain. I think so anyway.
29 January 2018 - 8:35