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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 which was nominated for a Grammy in 2012.
Bergling was 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".
The museum, "Avicii Experience", will be housed in Space, a new
digital culture centre due to open in the summer of 2021, and 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.
Visitors will be able to hear some of Bergling's unpublished
music and look at photographs and memorabilia, said Per Sundin,
chief executive of Pophouse Entertainment, which owns ABBA the
Museum, also in Stockholm.
"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," said Sundin.
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.
Avicii, whose breakthrough hit "Levels" was named by Billboard
as one of the 100 songs to define the 2010s, announced he was
retiring from touring in 2016, but kept on making music.
"We are convinced that what Tim did during his short time in
life had an enormous impact, and still has," said Sundin.
(Reporting by Helena Soderpalm; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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