Why do their cheap meatballs taste so good ? Why are bookshelves named Billy ? Why ca n't store layouts be normal ? These questions , and more , will no doubt be posed by the visitors who head to the new IKEA Museum opening next year . Of course , we might need to hammer together our own answers , having wound our way through thousands of irrelevant facts first . But perhaps a DIY museum experience will be even more satisfying once completed . The furniture company that changed the affordability of design has filed to build a museum on the site of its first store in Sweden . Tentatively scheduled to open in fall 2015 , the museum will take up 7,000 square meters on the site of the recently relocated IKEA store in Almhult , also the site of IKEA 'S first store opened by founder Ingvar Kamprad in 1958 . IKEA town . Almhult is known as `` IKEA Town '' for being the birthplace of IKEA , which still maintains a strong corporate presence in the city . While the then-17-year-old Kamprad had already registered IKEA as a business in 1943 , selling products ranging from nylon stockings to cigarette lighters , the Almhult site was the first brick-and-mortar store as well as the company 's first furniture showroom . READ : The hotel room you can pack and and bring with you . A small exhibition of IKEA 's history , titled `` IKEA through the ages , '' is already in place at the basement of the corporate culture center in Älmhult , but company reps are hoping that the new museum will be a much bigger tourist draw . `` In the IKEA Museum we plan to tell the IKEA story , focusing on range , business and people development over time , '' said Michele Acuna , managing director for IKEA Tillsammans , the corporate culture center . `` We also plan to have a museum shop and food services for our visitors , '' said Acuna , adding that the museum is expected to draw `` roughly 200,000 visitors annually when it is in full steam . '' Would you pay a visit to the IKEA Museum in Sweden ? Let us know in the comments . MORE : Inside the world 's biggest furniture fair .
IKEA Museum will be on top of first store in Älmhult , Sweden . The 60 - m² museum will also have a museum shop and food for visitors . It expected to draw 200,000 visitors per year .