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 Horological Museums :

( Museums with significant horological holdings, but not exclusivly Timepieces)

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  1. General Museums with significant Horological Holdings:
    1. Australia: MelbourneVictoria Museum
    2. Canada: Ottawa: The National Museum of Science and Technology
    3. Canada: Toronto: The Ontario Science Center
    4. Check Republic: Jindrichuv Hradec: Clock Collection
    5. Czech Republic: Praha: National Museum, tel. 02-69 45 15
    6. Czech Republic: Praha: National Technical Museum, tel. 02-37 36 70 (Significand Department on Timekeepers)
    7. France: Beaucourt (Belfort): Musee Japy
    8. France: Morteau (Franche Comte): Musee du Haut-Doubs
    9. France: Paris Musee Arts et Metier Mesure du Temps (incl. electronic catalog)
    10. France: Toulouse: Musee Paul Dupuy, a decorative arts museum with a worldwide recognised awtch and clock collection (Edouard Gelis), also two Antide Janvier clocks.
    11. ... see also
    12. Germany: Bonn: Deutsches Museum fuer zeitgenoessische Forschung und Technik
    13. Germany: Cloppenburg: Museumsdorf: Sonderausstellung "rund um die Uhr"
    14. Germany: Gotha; Schlossmuseum
    15. Germany: Muenchen: Deutsches Museum Abt. Zeitmessung
    16. Germany: Schwenningen (Schwarzwald): Heimatmuseum (Schwarzwalduhren, Helmuth Kienzle Collection). An excellent collection, displayed somewhat traditionally (i.e. somewhat boreingly)
    17. Hungary: Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Museum, tel. 01-38 21 22
    19. Italy: Bologna: Museo della Specolo
    20. Italy: Florence: Storia della Scienzia
    21. Italy: Milano: Museo Poldi Pezzoni: Watches, amny from 17thy Century, noteworthy watch in a cross shaped crystal case.
    22. Netherlands: Amsterdam: Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, Good collection of Marine Chronometers, e.g Berthoud's Nr. 40
    23. Netherlands: Leiden, Museum Boerhaave, some important early regulators
    24. Netherlands: Het Klokkengieterijmuseum
    25. Netherlands:Planetarium Eise Eisinga
    26. Russia: St.Ptersburg The Clock Collection at the Hermitage, incl. the Peacock Clock
    27. Slovakia: Kosice: Slovenske Technicke Muzeum , tel 095-2 36 65
    28. Spain: Madrid: Palacio Real
    29. Sweden: Stockholm: Nationalmuseet (Good Collection of Bracketclocks and Pocketwatches)
    30. Sweden: Stockholm Nordiska Museet (Swedish made Tallclocks, and Pocket Wtaches)
    31. Switzerland: Basel: Kirschgartenmuseum (Sarasin collection of 200 sundials and non mechanical clocks, Natan Rupp Collection of 250 timepieces, Gschwind collection of 180 early clocks)
    32. ...... Kirschgartenmuseum
    33. Switzerland: Biel, BE: Museum Neuhaus, Abt. Industriegeschichte, has watch production machinery
    34. Switzerland: Brienz: Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg, included reconstructed Watchmakers shop, also has a collection of clocks and watches
    35. Switzerland: Feldbrunnen: Dorfmuseum, Village museum, includes restored watchmaker home shop
    36. Switzerland: Frauenfeld, TG: Historisches Museum, includes several iron clocks by the Liechti family
    37. Switzerland: Geneva: Musee d'Instrument Scientifique (magnificent Orrey, Sundials, Observatory regulators)
    38. Switzerland: Jegensdorf, BE: Schloss, Museum fuer bernische Wohnkultur, includes some clocks by Founk a Berne
    39. Switzerland: La Chaux de Fonds, NE: Musee d'histoire, contains watchmakers workshop
    40. Switzerland: Langendorf, SO: Dorfmuseum (includes Lenco production machinery collection)
    41. Switzerland: Motiers, NE: Musee Regional Val de Travers, includes historic clockmaker shop
    42. Switzerland: Porrentruy, JU; Hotel Dieu, includes Watchmaking tools
    43. Switzerland: Sainte Croix, VD: Centre International de la Mechanique d'Art (CIMA). Automates, mechanical music and horology.
    44. Switzerland: St.Croix,VD:Musee des Art et des Sciences
    45. Switzerland: Zuerich:Landesmuseum, incl. Jost Buergis' Celestial globe
    46. UK: Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum (the Morley bequest), tel. 01223-332900
    47. UK: Cambridge: The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, tel. 01223-334540 (orries, sundials)
    48. UK: Edinburgh - Scotland: Royal Museum, 0131-225 7534
    49. UK: Edingurgh - Scotland: Royal Observatory
    50. UK: Exeter: Horology Collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum
    51. UK: Ipswich: Museum of Domestic Life (Thomas Moore clocks), tel.01473-213761
    52. UK: Norwitch: Bridwell Museum of Norwitch Trades,(Tel: 01603-667228), contains significant collection of Norfolk made clocks.
    53. UK: Leicester: Newarke Houses
    54. UK: Liverpool: City of Liverpool Museum, tel 0151-207 0001
    55. UK: London: British Museum
    56. UK: London-Greenwich: National Maritime Museum
    57. UK: London: London Museum, Kensington Palace
    58. UK: London: Museum of London, tel. 0171-600 3699
    59. UK: London: Science Museum (Time Gallaries)
    60. UK: London: Victoria and Albert Museum
    61. UK: London: Wallace Collection, Hertford Hs. tel.0171-935 0687
    62. UK: Oxfordshire Museum of History of Scienceat that site Click on History of Sci. Mus. (excellent for Sundials, also clocks)
    63. USA: DC: Washington: Smithsonian MuseumTimekeeping Gallery
    64. USA: IL: Chicago: Science Museum
    65. USA: Louisiana Longue Vue House and GardenTemporary Exhibit on Clocks, l995/96
    66. USA: MI: Dearborn: Henry Ford Museum
    67. USA: MA: Cambridge: Harvard University, Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments
    68. USA: New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Huge museum, many scattered clocks and watches, plus exhibit of tallcases, just off the American wing.
    69. USA: VA: Newport News: The Mariners' Museum

  2. 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


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