Book your flight to Sweden now!!!

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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Grab your dancing shoes: ABBA museum opening in 2009 in Stockholm
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - ABBA fans may want to book a trip to Stockholm in June 2009 for the opening of a museum dedicated to the Swedish pop group.

Organizers unveiled drawings Wednesday for the ABBA museum, to be built in the Swedish capita, which will chronicle the quartet's journey to stardom in the 1970s and their split in the early '80s.

The band members - Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Reuss - are not participating in the project but have donated their costumes and material for the exhibits.

The 6,500-square-metre museum will include a dance floor, recording studio and wardrobe for visitors to get a sense of what it was like to be an ABBA member. Karaoke-singing of ABBA songs will be part of the experience, organizers said.

The museum will open with a five-day festival starting June 3, 2009, said the founders - Ewa Wigenheim-Westman and her husband, Ulf Westman.

The band members have received invites to attend the opening - as guests rather than performers - but it was not clear if they would show up.

"We just have to cross our fingers," Ulf Westman said.

ABBA is one of world's most successful bands with album sales of more than 370 million. The group has not performed together since 1982 but continues to sell nearly three million records a year.

Everyone likes to make fun of their music, but hey - I kinda like 'em!