IKEA Museum

The IKEA Museum is a museum located in Älmhult, Sweden, that opened to the public on June 30, 2016.[1] It presents the history of the Swedish furnishing company IKEA.[2] It replaced IKEA Through the Ages (located in the Corporate Culture Center 'Tillsammans'), a smaller 800 m2 exhibition that showed 20 different room settings with IKEA furniture and objects.[3][4]

The IKEA Museum in August 2016

The IKEA Museum is in the same building where the first IKEA store opened in 1958. The store moved to a new location in Älmhult in 2012. At this time, work began on converting the store into a museum, with an original planned opening date of 2015.[5][6] The facade of the building was restored to recreate its original appearance. The museum has an area of 3500 m2.[7][8]

References
  1. "Ikea museum opens in Sweden celebrating firm's history - BBC News". BBC News. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  2. "IKEA Museum öppnar 30 juni i år". Allas. Archived from the original on 22 January 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  3. Estes, Adam Clark. "Let Me Take You On a Tour of IKEA's Bizarre Corporate Museum". Gizmodo. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  4. Fessenden, Marissa. "There is an Ikea Museum at the Company's Headquarters in Sweden". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  5. Cha, Frances. "IKEA museum set for 2015 delivery". CNN. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  6. "IKEA plans to open museum". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  7. "Älmhult – IKEA's cradle". Visit Småland. Archived from the original on 2017-01-22. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  8. Opam, Kwame. "IKEA will open museum at original location in Sweden". The Verge. Retrieved 20 April 2016.

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