KKAM is Höganäs's museum of ceramics, art and local history. It began as Höganäs Museum, founded in 1924, and in 2022 merged with the town's ceramics center; the letters stand for the Swedish words for ceramics, art, studio and museum. Coal and clay made Höganäs, and this is the place to see how.
Salt-glazed Höganäs jars in the museum's collection
Photo: Kigsz · CC BY-SA 4.0Stoneware on display in the museum
Photo: Carin Bäckström · CC BY-SA 4.0In the museum
- The Mineclay's journey from the pits to finished goods, the miners' daily life, and footprints of dinosaurs that once lived here
- Salt glazethe brown stoneware jars that became the town's trademark
- Åke Holma room and a hall for one of Sweden's leading 20th-century ceramicists, alongside other Höganäs potters
- Modern ceramicsfrom what KKAM calls one of Sweden's foremost collections of modern Scandinavian ceramics
- Art hallchanging exhibitions from March to December, ending with the juried Novembersalong
Gardens and studio
Outside are a workers' garden in the style of 1800s Höganäs, a museum garden laid out in 2022 and a sculpture courtyard. KKAM's studio, in the former Höganäs Keramik factory on Gärdesgatan, runs ceramics courses and an open workshop.
