Vienna Clock Museum — Attraction in Vienna

One of the most important watch collections in Europe is located in an old Viennese city center: here you can travel back in time from the Middle Ages to the recent past. 700 precious watches from all over the world tell not only about scientific progress and technical precision, but also about social upheavals and trends in handicrafts and design. Every hour on the hour, the beating, ringing and playing of many clocks kept going fills the three floors.

Richly decorated commode grandfather clocks testify to the social rank of their owners, specialties from the Viennese Biedermeier are the famous Laterndl clocks and the “Zappler”, the smallest of which fits under a thimble. The largest exhibit is the tower clockwork of St. Stephen's Cathedral, weighing many tons, from 1699.

Highlights also include the 18th century astronomical art clock by monk David a Sancto Cajetano. In the magnificent precision instrument, 150 wheels mesh to indicate different local times, planetary orbits, or solar and lunar eclipses.

The inventory of the watch museum, founded in 1917, essentially goes back to two private collections: that of the middle school teacher and first head of the house, Rudolf Kaftan, and the valuable pocket watch collection of the writer Marie von...

Uhrenmuseum (Clock Museum) is located near Judenplatz in one of the oldest house in Vienna, dating back to the Middle Ages .

In addition to being able to visit a historical building which accommodates the museum, the collection is quite unique and impressive. At the Uhrenmuseum, you can see around 3000 historic clocks of various shapes, sizes and ages - a very nice collection for anyone interested old 'tick-tock' makers.

Among the highlights for us were the fascinating turret clock of St. Stephens (1699) as well as the 17th century astronomical clocks available to be seen. There are many other table and mantel clocks, traveling clocks, old stopwatches and classic grandfather clocks from the 17th and 18th century. Some of the 19th century picture clocks were interesting to see as well.

Overall, we spent just under an hour happily exploring Uhrenmuseum and would happily return for another visit to again see this extensive and impressive collection of clocks and timepieces...

The clocks are surely beautiful, but a museum without a proper organization is just a collection of random stuff. I didn't know anything about clocks, and this museum didn't leave me anything. There's a lot of work to do, but it should include some more interactive stuff, like explaining how clocks works, maybe with videos or stuff like that; furthermore, the clocks in the rooms didn't seem very related, as I couldn't always get the fil rouge: a room can include clocks from different periods, brands, mechanisms, authors, materials, purposes... Finally, the descriptions should be fixed, since some letters...