娱乐英语新闻:Swedish Music Hall of Fame opens

STOCKHOLM, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish Music Hall of Fame, together with ABBA The Museum set inside, opens on Monday, located in the center of Stockholm in Sweden.

The Swedish Music Hall of Fame is going to exhibit the evolution of the Swedish popular music from the early 1920s, where each decade has its own room capturing the spirit of the music from the time with music videos, text, images.

"Popular music is filled with many voices and melodies that are constantly evolving," said Charlotte Wiking, managing director of the Swedish Music Hall of Fame.

"We want the opening of the Hall of Fame to celebrate the variety that ten decades of popular music have created," she added.

The exhibition aims to show how music, media, the development of technology and society influenced each other from the old time to today with a timeline was running throughout at the exhibition.

The development of technology behind the evolution of the Swedish popular music would be presented when the visitors could see how the early fragile wax cylinders evolved into the mp3 times today which had enabled the Swedish popular music to spread across the world.

Items from Swedish performers, which are gathered from different places over the world, will also be on display in the Music Hall of Fame.

Bjorn Ulvaeus, who was attending the operning ceremony on Monday and also was a member of the 1970s pop group ABBA, said it was surpring to see those old instruments and costumes again.

Furthermore, visitor will be able to take part in the ABBA concert from the 1970s which was relived due to the technology of holographic projection.

ABBA The Museum will also provide visitors with the opportunity to choose to sing one of the ABBA songs in the professional recording studio inside ABBA The Museum and then download it on the website of the museum.