[1] It presents the history of the Swedish furnishing company IKEA.
[2] It replaced IKEA Through the Ages (located in the Corporate Culture Center 'Tillsammans'), a smaller 800 m2 exhibition that showed 20 different room settings with IKEA furniture and objects.
At this time, work began on converting the store into a museum, with an original planned opening date of 2015.
[5][6] The facade of the building was restored to recreate its original appearance.
[7][8] In 2024, IKEA bought the defunct The Museum of Furniture Studies that was located in Stockholm and moved it to Älmhult.