IKEA Museum — Attraction in Älmhults kommun

In summary: It's a very worthwhile visit and fun for the whole family or just you. There is lots of things to see and it's all in Swedish and English. It's disabled friendly and has facilities on site, there is also a restaurant for a place to eat. Exhibits are stunning.

The staff at the entrance were very friendly and gave a brief history on the building and an explanation/overview of the exhibits and where to go. Throughout the museum information is available in both Swedish and English (including all exhibit text).

There is a lift or stairs to take you between floors, and a cloakroom with toilets on the bottom floor. There are also fold-out seats at the start of every floor you can take with you if you want or need to sit down at any point.

The exhibits are amazing, they show you the history of the man who created IKEA and about his life. Then you are taken upstairs to a room that starts at the very beginning with the first store opening and takes you through the years as you walk around the room (it's very large). It includes room displays through the decades (as you'd see currently in a store, but with their furniture from the 70s, 80s etc). There are even rooms hanging from the ceiling to look at, I'm impressed nothing has fallen down!

There are lots of interactive exhibits along the way, it's probably pretty fun for children (and adults too, I loved it). There is a magazine cover shoot, where they have a lounge furniture display that you can sit in, press the red button, and 10 seconds later it prints a photo of you as the cover of an IKEA catalogue (and it's free, take as many silly poses as you like!). There are also three chairs you can sit on: a huge one where your feet won't touch the ground, a normal one and a tiny tiny one. So of course I tried to jump up onto the big one and made my boyfriend sit on the tiny one - makes a great photo! But there are many others too!

You are also able to see "IKEA Hacked" which shows you the design process behind all the furniture, it's very interesting to see.

Once you're through everything there is a gift shop, and they gift wrap items for free (and very pretty!). There is also a restaurant where you can go and eat some meatballs! There are fish and vegetarian options available too, as well as...

As someone who usually hates going to IKEA (I'm a man, judge me all you want) I actually found the IKEA museum quite calm and a good experience overall.

Maybe it was the lack of slow retards with huge shopping carts getting in front of me, or the fact that I didn't get the urge to punch people in their teeth (something that always seems to happen when I'm in IKEA) that did it for me? I'm not really sure. But it was a good experience overall, and I left the place without feeling suicidal for once.

My only complaints were that there wasn't any red balls for the kids to put down the ball tube (no, I'm not a paedo. You'll figure out what the hell I'm talking about soon enough when your significant other lures you to the IKEA Museum) which made my four year old sad. As she stated after finding out: "Why do they say there's red balls for the kids when there really aren't any?" My other gripe is with the restaurant: A large portion of meatballs IS NOT IN ANY WAY LARGE! We left feeling hungry and with melted ice creams after waiting in line for a second time for dessert. In Danish IKEAs you can buy a portion with 15 meatballs, and could it be too much trouble to move the god damn ice machine closer to the counter, so you don't have to wait in line while the...

I am an Ikea fanatic so of course this was my dream. I was not disappointed! The museum is located right across from the Ikea Hotell and opens almost every day from 10-6pm.

The first floor has some displays about Sweden and Swedish history, and the second floor covers everything about Ingvar Kamprad and Ikea's history. There are a few interactive displays and you can take a photo in the living room that's on the cover of this year's catalogue - very exciting!!! You can also see the covers of all the Ikea catalogues since 1958!

There's a temporary display of Ikea items that have been hacked on floor -1/0, pretty cool to see.

The museum shop has some unique items for sale and the restaurant offers several different types of gourmet meatballs (not the typical ones found in Ikea stores, these were fancy af!) I had the meatballs and mash, my husband had chicken meatballs in a pita bread. Everything tasted amazing.

We spent about 2 hours going through the displays. If you love Ikea, this is the...