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Museum in Älmhult, Sweden
The IKEA Museum in August 2016

The IKEA Museum is a museum located in Älmhult, Sweden, that opened to the public on June 30, 2016. It presents the history of the Swedish furnishing company IKEA. It replaced IKEA Through the Ages (located in the Corporate Culture Center 'Tillsammans'), a smaller 800 m exhibition that showed 20 different room settings with IKEA furniture and objects.

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. The facade of the building was restored to recreate its original appearance. The museum has an area of 3500 m.

The Museum of Furniture Studies

In 2024, IKEA bought the defunct The Museum of Furniture Studies that was located in Stockholm and moved it to Älmhult.

References

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External links

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Shops and factory ownershipIKEA ← INGKA Holding ← Stichting INGKA Foundation
Franchise and trademark ownershipIKEA ← Inter IKEA Systems B.V. ← Inter IKEA Holding S.A. ← Interogo Foundation
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