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 :

( Watch Museums, Clock Museums)

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  1. Outstanding Individual Clocks (worth a trip) outside of Museums:
    1. Czeck Republic: Prague Astronomical Clock or
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    3. France: Besancon:1857 Astronomical Clock by Verite de Beauvais, Cathedral of St.Jean
    4. France: Lyon: Cathedrale St.Jean: oldest church based, astronomical clock in the world in running condition (documented Anno 1379)
    5. France: Strassbourg: Astronomical Clock at the Cathedral
    6. Mexico: Mexico City: Monumental Water Clock at the Childrens Museum
    7. Russia: Peacock Clock at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg
    8. Portugal: The REJOMAX, in Portugal
    9. Switzerland: Bern: Historical Astronomical Clock at the Zytglogge Tower
    10. Switzerland: Zuerich: The Tuerler Astronomical Clock, Bahnhofstrasse 28 (the most complex clock built in the 1990s)
    11. UK: Colchester: The wood framed turret clock at the Castle
    12. UK: Salisbury Cathedral: Medival clock from 1386, possibly the oldest clock in the UK (Located in the cathedral nave)
    13. UK: Wells Cathedral, clock from ca. 1390, astronomical clock and automaton from 1880 (Original in the Science museum in London)

    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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