Rörstrand Museum

The Rörstrand Center in the four-storey former Rörstrand porcelain factory includes a museum of porcelain manufacturing. Opened in 2022, the museum explores three centuries of high-quality stoneware, earthenware and porcelain in Sweden. A factory was established at the waterfront site of Rörstrand in Stockholm in 1726 and grew to employ over 1,000 people by 1900. In the early 20th century, it opened porcelain factories in Göteborg and Lidköping and worked with many leading designers. Now part of Fiskars, the company closed the Lidköping factory in 2005 but still makes tableware and decorative pieces overseas. It began its collection in the 19^th century and the museum now contains around 18,000 items. As well as examples of ceramics from the whole history of Rörstrand, it shows commercials from the 1950s, photographs and a rich archive of design drawings, price lists and catalogues. Visitors take a journey through the design, materials and working lives connected with the factory.