Become a Virtual Dancing Queen at London's Newest Museum: ABBAWORLD

January 27, 2010 at 11:30 AM | by JetSetCD | Comments (0)

Creepy or not? A new museum is opening in London this week, and once we tell you what it is, you're guaranteed to have some good old disco tune stuck in your head the rest of the day.

It's ABBAWORLD, a "museum-cum-theme park in London with enough music, mementos and memory-lane appeal to satisfy even the most fervent ABBA fan." The doors to the Earl's Court-area museum open today, and MSNBC has more details on how in depth ABBAWORLD goes into bringing the Abba experience to generations of fans:

The exhibition tells the band's story in 25 rooms spread over 30,000 square feet (2,800 sq. meters). Glass cases contain spangly costumes in silk, satin and spandex. Visitors can see recreations of Polar Studios, where the band recorded, and the seaside cabin near Stockholm where Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson composed the band's hits. One corner holds the helicopter pictured on the cover of the 1976 album 'Arrival.' An ambitious interactive element lets visitors take quizzes, recreate the band's sound at a mixing desk, or dance and sing alongside an animated ABBA via 'holographic video' technology."

Considering how we're already a little frightened by the puppets they're posing with in the picture above, we're sort of glad we missed this when we were in London last week. But then, they do a have a helicopter in there! Next time, then? Nevermind! It's a traveling exhibition, so we can expect it to arrive also in Sydney and New York by the year's end. Mamma mia.

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· Mamma Mia! ABBAWORLD opens in London [MSNBC]
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[Photo: AP/MSNBC]

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