Nearly 4 a long time after they gained the Eurovison Track Contest, Abba fever has returned to Stockholm as followers clamour to visit a brand new museum dedicated to the Swedish pop legends.
Three members of the group, who cut up up 30 years ago, have been within the city for the launch.
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The remaining member, Agnetha Faeltskog, was selling her newest solo album in London and despatched a video message of support.
The state-of-the-art museum, situated on Stockholm's leafy island of Djurgaarden, permits visitors to rise up shut and personal with the band - a minimum of interactively.
Some 40 units of the trademark shiny flares, platform boots and knitted hats are on show in the museum.
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Visitors can take heed to the band members' recollections and one part is dedicated to their break-up and the story of the divorces.
One of the first folks to tour the museum was 46-year-previous Swede Henrik Ahlen, who lives in London.
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Guests also can see digital photos of what they might look like sporting Abba costumes, record music movies and sing such hits as Dancing Queen and Mamma Mia on a stage subsequent to hologram photographs of the band members.
But the museum additionally exhibits a less glamorous, more on a regular basis side of the historical past of a band that has sold 400 million records and persistently topped the charts for a decade.
The band began out as two married couples and continued performing after their divorces before finally drifting aside in the early 1980s.
The gathering consists of 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 after they first met in the 1960s.
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