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Ikea to turn its first ever shop into a museum to attract flat-pack furniture fans

We associate it’s huge, windowless buildings with flat-pack furniture and torturous Bank Holiday weekends, but Ikea is set to be turned into a museum.

The Swedish furniture brand has decided to turn its first ever store into a visitor attraction – and attract 200,000 DIY fans every year.

The company was founded in 1943 near the southern town of Malmoe, a rural area which isn’t on Sweden’s tourist trail.

Flat-pack kings: Ikea is set to open a museum in its first shop in 2015

Flat-pack kings: Ikea is set to open a museum in its first shop in 2015

But now Ikea is hoping to tempt people to the region by turning its first store into a museum all about its history. 

Michele Acuna, managing director for the site of the future museum, said: ‘The first Ikea store was open here in Aelmhult, and in 2012 it moved to a new site.

‘That gives us the opportunity to use this building for a museum.’

Furniture favourites: Ikea is famed as the weekend destination for DIY enthusiasts

 Furniture favourites: Ikea is famed as the weekend destination for DIY enthusiasts

 

The building already has an exhibition space to showcase the company’s history, but now the company has made a request to revamp the whole building – an area of 11,500ft squared – into a museum, which would open in 2015.

The iconic Swedish company decided to develop the attraction after receiving visitors from Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark who were all interested in Ikea’s design heritage.

Ms Acuna said: ‘We intend to tell stories not only on our product range but also on how the Ikea business developed and about people, and of course to give a fun and interactive experience to visitors.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2626024/Ikea-turn-Swedish-shop-museum.html#ixzz31XCm3Azx Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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Watch Ikea Take Over The World In One GIF

From humble origins, the furniture giant has risen to confuse the much of the world with its byzantine assembly instructions.     

1. Behold the rise of Ikea, which grew from zero stores in 1943 to 347 stores in 2014.

The GIF above comes from an animated map produced by London-based designer Mike Barker. The map scrolls through Ikea’s entire 71-year history and was inspired by similar work FlowingData did on the growth of Walmart.

4. Barker told BuzzFeed the map tells a unique and surprising story:

“Who knew how late it came to the U.S. or as many people on Twitter have pointed out, how late it came to the U.K., especially after expanding very early into Australia and western Canada (so far from Sweden). Ikea is a different destination for shoppers compared to Walmart; you go once or only a few times every year. Walmart you might go to on a monthly or even more frequent basis. It’s likely this caused the slow, far-flung and lower overall growth compared to Walmart.”

Barker used Ikea’s website and Google maps to pinpoint locations of current stores, and combed through various Ikea data to identify opening dates.

 

Sourced from Buzzfeed.com

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