Horology -The Index ( Clock Watch and Time Museums) A worldwide list

HOROLOGY - The Index

Horology is the Science of Time, Timekeepers ( Clocks and Watches ) and Timekeeping

Internet Resources on Museums related to Horology or of interest to Horologists:

( Sundials, Scientific Instruments,Mechanical Music)

Horology-The Index is under constant expansion.There will be additional items here, listing more internet resources regarding the subject of this page. Suggestions and Comments from Readers are welcome. Visit us again in a few weeks for additional sites.

  1. Editors' Personal Favorites: The world's 12 best horological museums:
    1. L'Homme et le Temps - La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland
    2. Time Museum - CLOSED in March 1999: Rockford Illinois USA, will reopen in Chicago on December 31, 2000
    3. Harrisons' seaclocks - at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich (London) UK
    4. Deutsches Uhrenmuseum- Furtwangen, Germany
    5. Museum of the Clockmaker Company - Guildhall - London
    6. NAWCC Museum - Columbia , Pa USA, Completly NEW museum, reopened late October 1999
    7. Uhrenmuseum der Stadt Wien, Austria
    8. Clock Collection - British Museum - London
    9. Muse d'Horlogerie - Geneva , Switzerland
    10. American Watch and Clock Museum - Bristol or Alternate Website (by Gordon Uber), CT USA
    11. Chateaux du Monts , Le Locle Switzerland
    12. Beyer Museum, Zuerich Switzerland
  2. Museums and Exhibits in related Fields: (of interest to horologists)
    1. Worldwide: List of Museums with mechanical Music
    2. France: Paris:Le pendule de Foucault at the Pantheon (in French)
    3. Poland: Jedrzejow (between Warzaw and Kielce): The Przypkowski Museum : 600 Sundials,and 20'000 volume sundial library, some mechanical clocks
    4. Switzerland: VD: L'Auberson: Music Box Museum(Musee Baud)
    5. Switzerland: Neuchatel: The world famousJaquet Droz Automats(operating pm first sunday) at the Museum of Art and History
    6. Switzerland: Seewen SO:Musikautomaten Museum (Zweigstelle des Landesmuseums)
    7. Switzerland: Sainte Croix, VD: Musee CimaCentre Industriel de la Mechanique d'Art (Music Boxes and Automats)
    8. Switzerland: Sainte Croix, VD: Company Museum of Reuge S.A. (Musicboxes)
    9. UK: Barometer World, Oakhampton , tel. 01805-603 443
    10. UK:**List of Maritime Museums
    11. **Global List of Museums re. History of Astronomy


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