A museum dedicated to the late Avicii is scheduled to open next year in his native Stockholm, Sweden.
The DJ and music producer behind hits like “Wake Me Up” was found dead by suicide in Muscat, Oman on April 20. He was 28.
The Avicii Experience – which will be part of a new digital cultural centre called SPACE – will “bring its visitors closer to the artist Avicii and the person Tim Bergling,” according to a release. “The audience will follow Tim’s journey from a reclusive music nerd to a celebrated superstar, from his boyhood room where it all started to the Los Angeles studio where the biggest hits were created.”
In addition to memorabilia, there will be previously unseen photos and videos as well as unreleased music. Through interactive exhibits, visitors can “peer inside the creative process and the many collaborations behind the music.”
The museum is backed by Pophouse Entertainment Group, a company co-founded by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus.
Some of the revenues from the Avicii Experience will benefit the Tim Bergling Foundation, which his family launched to raise awareness about issues around mental health and suicide prevention as well as causes in which Avicii believed.