Ikea museum

The Swedish flatpack goliath has launched a permanent exhibition celebrating its history, ikea museum. What does it say about the evolution of our homes?

The new digital platform will be the most extensive online source of knowledge and facts about the Swedish home furnishing brand. The platform opens the door to the vast and vibrant history of IKEA. It contains more than stories about its founder Ingvar Kamprad and some of the most iconic products and memorable designs from the s to today. The stories are told through historical documents and artefacts and from different perspectives by the people who were there when it happened. Each story adds a piece to the story of IKEA, a story that continues to grow every day. The new digital platform consists of more than editorial articles, movies and interviews with the people involved in the journey — from a small local business to a global home furnishing brand with more than , employees and stores in 61 markets around the world. The content on the platform will be available online in English and Swedish and accessible around the world, any time, and any place.

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Range and Supply For questions regarding the IKEA range: how we design and develop our products, ikea museum, including the IKEA food offer, and questions regarding how we source and ikea museum them, please contact us here: Sweden pressoffice. The room sets for each decade are arranged inside giant cardboard boxes.

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From the s when Ingvar Kamprad wrote most of the texts himself, via the poppy, somewhat radical s and all the way into the scaled-down s — the IKEA catalogue always captured the spirit of the time. The IKEA catalogue was the very last one printed on paper. Good question! We know that a lot of people are curious about what the IKEA catalogue has looked like through the ages. The catalogue has always reflected the age and its views on interior design and everyday living, especially in Sweden, but in recent decades also internationally. The catalogue was in print for 70 years, and by digitising all the catalogues we could make them available to everybody. So we hope that the catalogues will bring some joy and nostalgia, and maybe even a few surprises. Just like the perception of the home, the catalogue has changed dramatically since , when it was first published. In the s and s, there are rarely any people in the pictures, and never any children. But in the s there are children playing all over the home, you can see adults smoking and even the occasional political poster on the wall.

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Here we tell you everything you need to know to get the most out of your visit. We look forward to meeting you. Click below for further information. Then take the first right onto IKEAgatan. The car park is on the left. Take exit 78 — Hamneda interchange. Then take the first left onto IKEAgatan, before the roundabout. Carry straight on over the bridge and turn right. Talk to our staff when you buy your ticket and they will give you a charging code.

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Actually, Eriksson says, it was pretty hard tracking down all the pieces. Open main menu. She had to make the five-hour drive to Stockholm to tick that one off the list. The museum includes a giftshop and restaurant, so there will be meatballs aplenty to add to the 1bn sold worldwide. Another displays a humble Allen key, giver of life to flat-pack furniture. Everything else had to be bought — a labour that took their colleague Thea Davidsson two-and-a- half years. Range and Supply For questions regarding the IKEA range: how we design and develop our products, including the IKEA food offer, and questions regarding how we source and distribute them, please contact us here: Sweden pressoffice. The room sets for each decade are arranged inside giant cardboard boxes. Each story adds a piece to the story of IKEA, a story that continues to grow every day. She remembers a stool in the shape of a flower. It contains more than stories about its founder Ingvar Kamprad and some of the most iconic products and memorable designs from the s to today. Opens 30 June. Go to IKEA. View image in fullscreen. Download assets.

You will get new perspectives and ideas through hundreds of stories about innovation and insights, great mistakes, and memorable products, decade by decade. Of course, while sharing the story of IKEA, we inevitably include stories of people, places and historical events. Here, in the south of Sweden, you can step into our main exhibitions as well as temporary exhibitions about the past, present and future of design, innovation and life at home.

Explore the first-ever online IKEA encyclopaedia. The museum also includes several temporary exhibitions, as well as a restaurant and a shop. It is her favourite exhibit. But when you pumped it up, it leaked. The room sets for each decade are arranged inside giant cardboard boxes. Ikea here is a kind of faith, a belief system. Road signs specify distances to the metre — hotel m, gym m, but somehow places are still hard to find. IKEA offers well-designed, functional and affordable, high-quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment. View image in fullscreen. Actually, Eriksson says, it was pretty hard tracking down all the pieces. The stories are told through historical documents and artefacts and from different perspectives by the people who were there when it happened. Scroll left. Reuse this content. The Swedish flatpack goliath has launched a permanent exhibition celebrating its history. T here is no mistaking the Ikea Museum.