Avicii Experience is a

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

located in

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, Sweden. It is built in the memory of Swedish music producer Tim Bergling, better known as

Avicii Tim Bergling (8 September 1989 – 20 April 2018), known professionally as Avicii, was a Swedish DJ, remixer, and record producer. At age 16, he began posting his remixes on electronic music forums, which led to his first record deal. He rose ...

, to exhibit his work.

History

After Bergling's death from suicide in 2018, his parents visited ABBA The Museum, an interactive museum dedicated to

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. They decided that a similar museum could work as a tribute to him. Bergling's parents wanted to give fans a place to remember and celebrate the work of their late son and learn about his process for creating music. On 9 June 2020, it was announced that an Avicii Tribute Museum would open in Stockholm in the summer of 2021. The renamed Avicii Experience was opened in February 2022 by Prince Carl Phillip and Princess Sofia, alongside Bergling's father Klas, in Space Stockholm, a new digital culture centre near

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. The museum was co-founded by Per Sundin.

Features

The museum features reconstructions of Bergling's childhood bedroom and

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mansion. It also includes recordings of Avicii's most popular work and the ability to remix the songs, as well as unreleased music. The interactive museum also includes exhibitions from various stages in Bergling's life, including a simulation of the high paced lifestyle he experienced before his retirement from touring in 2016, which are designed to give visitors an understanding of the health issues Bergling faced. The exhibitions are also dedicated to raising the awareness of mental health problems in young people and the wider music industry. Part of the profits from the museum go to the

Tim Bergling Foundation The Tim Bergling Foundation is a foundation created by the family of the Swedish DJ Tim Bergling, known as Avicii, to "honour his memory and continue to act in his spirit". Avicii died by suicide in 2018, after a prolonged battle with mental hea ...

References

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