IKEA Museum explained

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]

Notes and References

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Web site: Estes. Adam Clark. Let Me Take You On a Tour of IKEA's Bizarre Corporate Museum. Gizmodo. 20 April 2016.
Web site: Fessenden. Marissa. There is an Ikea Museum at the Company’s Headquarters in Sweden. Smithsonian Magazine. 20 April 2016.
Web site: Cha. Frances. IKEA museum set for 2015 delivery. CNN. 20 April 2016.
Web site: IKEA plans to open museum. The Daily Telegraph. 20 April 2016.
Web site: Älmhult – IKEA’s cradle. Visit Småland. 20 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20170122194648/https://www.visitsmaland.se/en/article/701/almhult-och-markaryd/almhult-ikeas-cradle#. 2017-01-22. dead.
Web site: Opam. Kwame. IKEA will open museum at original location in Sweden. The Verge. 20 April 2016.