ABBA The Museum

ABBA The Museum is the interactive shrine to Sweden's most successful cultural export — a museum on Djurgården that combines costumes, memorabilia, and personal artifacts from the band's career with interactive experiences that let visitors sing, dance, and record with virtual versions of Agnetha, Björn, Benny, and Frida. The museum opened in 2013 and has been one of Stockholm's most visited attractions ever since, drawing both devoted fans and visitors who discover that ABBA's music is more enjoyable than they'd previously admitted.

The interactive elements are the museum's strength — a holographic stage where you perform as the fifth member of ABBA, a recording studio where you can sing and mix ABBA tracks, and the Polar Studio recreation (where the band recorded their albums) that plays back unreleased recordings and lets visitors explore the creative process. The costumes — including the iconic white and blue outfits from the 1974 Eurovision performance of 'Waterloo' — are displayed with the reverence that fashion museums reserve for haute couture.

The museum sits within the Swedish Music Hall of Fame (which covers Swedish music more broadly) on Djurgården, the island that also houses the Vasa Museum, Skansen, and the Nordiska Museet. The walk along Djurgårdsvägen from the city centre across the bridge to the museum passes through some of Stockholm's most pleasant waterfront scenery, and combining ABBA with the Vasa Museum creates a day that covers Sweden's most famous shipwreck and its most famous pop group.