Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- ABBA, the Swedish pop group that sold more than 370 million records, will be honored by a Stockholm museum that opens on June 3, 2009, the gallery's founder said.

The museum will use interactive displays to tell the band's story, including its winning entry, ``Waterloo,'' in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1974. After a period when ABBA could only get a television gig if another group canceled, the quartet had hit singles such as ``Mamma Mia'' and ``Dancing Queen.''

``This is not going to be a museum where you walk around watching dusty display cases,'' Ewa Wigenheim-Westman, the founder, told a news conference in Stockholm today. Visitors will be able to edit their own ABBA video and record their own ABBA song. One room will also showcase the original ABBA costumes, donated by group members.

ABBA, an acronym of the names of members Agnetha, Bjoern, Benny and Anni-Frid, recorded eight original albums between 1972 and 1982. The songs live on in the musical ``Mamma Mia,'' seen by about 30 million people so far, according to the Web site of ABBA the Museum. Wigenheim-Westman said she expects about half a million people to visit each year.

The museum will be at Stadsgaarden quay, where many cruise ships land, a five-minute walk from Stockholm's Old Town. Ticket sales start on March 13, 2009, and the opening will trigger five days of festivities in central Stockholm, with ABBA music played from stages on land and on water. ABBA hasn't yet decided if the group will attend the grand opening.

``We hope they will attend but you know what ABBA is like,'' Wigenheim-Westman said. ``It took us two years to get them to agree to this museum.''

To contact the reporter on this story: Janina Pfalzer in Stockholm at jpfalzer@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: December 5, 2007 08:31 EST