IKEA Museum

The IKEA Museum in August 2016

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 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]

The Museum of Furniture Studies

In 2024, IKEA bought the defunct The Museum of Furniture Studies that was located in Stockholm and moved it to Älmhult.[9][10][11]

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.
  9. ^ "Ikea köper möbler – vill att Älmhult ska bli globalt centrum för design". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 2024-08-20. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  10. ^ Moshizi, Tara (2024-08-20). "Ikea tar över möbeldesignmuseum". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  11. ^ "Möbeldesignmuseum Stockholm flyttar till Älmhult". IKEA (in Swedish). 2024-08-16. Retrieved 2024-08-23.

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