According to Reuters, a museum honouring the late electronic dance DJ Avicii will open in Stockholm next year.
The museum, called Avicii Experience, will be housed in Space, a new digital culture centre, due to open in the summer of 2021. It is the joint project of Space, the Pophouse Entertainment Group and the Tim Bergling Foundation, which was founded by his parents Klas Bergling and Anki Lidén to support mental health awareness.
Per Sundin, chief executive of Pophouse Entertainment, said: “Visitors will be able to hear some of Bergling’s unpublished music and look at photographs and memorabilia. There will be a story about Tim’s life, from his boyhood room where he was playing World of Warcraft with his friends, to his first songs, first demos.”
Avicii, whose real name was Tim Bergling, achieved world fame with his feel-good tracks Wake Me Up, Hey Brother and Sunshine which he co-produced with David Guetta and was nominated for a Grammy in 2012.
The Swedish DJ was sadly found dead in Oman in April 2018, having taken his life at the age of 28. His family said at the time he had struggled with stress and “could not go on any longer”.
Mayor of Stockholm, Anna Konig Jerlmyr, told Reuters in an e-mail she hoped the museum will spark a dialogue about mental health and suicide prevention.
