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The Clockmakers' Museum |
SW7 2DD London, Great Britain (UK) (Greater London) |
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Address |
64, Exhibition Road
South Kensington |
Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Opening times
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See: The Science Museum London. | ||||
Status from 03/2020
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Free entry. | ||||
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Homepage | www.clockmakers.org/the-clockmakers-museum-library |
Location / Directions |
The Clockmakers’ Museum in a new gallery on the 2nd floor of Science Museum London. |
Description | Wikipedia: The CollectionThe collection on display includes rare horological portraits, and numbers some 660 English and European watches, 30 clocks, and 15 marine timekeepers, which are broadly arranged in chronological order, starting in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries at the east end (with some European objects), but soon moving to the seventeenth century and the emergence of a clock and watch trade in London, initially populated by immigrant craftsmen. The gallery moves forward in time as it progresses westwards through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is completed at the west end by recent and current objects, such as watches made by and other items associated with George Daniels, a former Master of the Company, and an explanation of the wristwatch now being manufactured by Charles Frodsham in Sussex. Collection highlights Star watch by David Ramsay |
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