A travelling ABBA exhibit is to get a permanent home in a new museum dedicated mostly to the Swedish quartet that has sold nearly 400 million records since its heyday in the 1970s.
Former band member Bjoern Ulvaeus said this week that ABBA The Museum will be part of a Swedish music hall of fame to be inaugurated in Stockholm next spring.
The museum will feature some of the band's glitzy stage costumes, instruments and other mementos that were displayed in the ABBA WORLD exhibition that toured Europe and Australia in 2009-2011.
Ulvaeus said he hoped all four former ABBA members would attend the opening, set for April or May, but ruled out a stage comeback.
"We are the only group of that status that has never been reunited. I think that is cool," Ulvaeus, 67, said in Stockholm. "It is a strength for ABBA that you remember those young, ambitious, energetic people during the '70s rather than some feeble old folks."
The other band members were Benny Anders-son, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. They started the band as two married couples and won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo. They continued performing after both couples divorced, but drifted apart in the early '80s.
