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Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!: ABBA Museum Opens In Stockholm

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A museum devoted to the Swedish super-group ABBA opened this week in Stockholm, offering visitors the chance to see how they'd look in the quartet's colorfully kitschy costumes, check out memorabilia and props (like the helicopter featured on the cover of 1976's Arrival), and even audition to be the band's fifth member.

There are also, other less expected installations, reports the AP:

The collection includes models of the band's kitchen, a cottage where they used to compose their songs and the small, rustic park venues Bjorn and Benny played when they first met in the 1960s. Visitors can listen to the band members' recollections and one section is dedicated to the breakup and the story of the divorces.

Why wait more than three decades to open a shrine to one of the most successful pop acts of all time? "You need some distance, you need perspective to be able to tell a story like that," explains Ulveaus. "And I guess you can say that we have perspective now, 30 years on."

Though Benny Andersson, Frida Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus haven't performed together since ABBA broke up in 1982, a special phone has been installed and the foursome have promised to call in—individually—to chat.

Just don't ask about a reunion: Ulveaus says ABBA the Museum "is the closest you could ever get" to seeing them together again.

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