Museum of Clocks — Attraction in Klaipėda

An amazing museum) What a wonderful trip to a world history of clocks! The museum features exhibits of clock and watches from the past to the present times. Here you can see the device with the help of which people around the world tried to measure the time. You start with the examples of clocks in the Ancient East tradition and head for the next exhibition where strange examples of clocks are shown. Some of these clock and watches look like a real masterpiece! The collection of clocks from European countries are really fantastic! Moreover, there are a nice space to spend time with your children in the inner courtyard. You should take a picture there. The best time for visiting the museum is May because of the magnificent views in the courtyard. Don't overlook this...

Fantastic and unique museum that takes you through the history of clocks 🕰️ ⏰ Starting from ancient clocks that utilised the elements like solar (sun for sun dials), water, fire and sand. I was amazed to discover that Egyptians were the first to create the sun dial and water clocks.

You’ll see mechanical clocks, stopwatches,table clocks, pocket watches and even beautifully decorated Baroque and Art Nouveau clocks. Highly recommend it to learn more about the history of clocks, it’s fascinating 👍🏽👍🏽

The staff are also very friendly and will always help u find the clocks in the tablet audio...

An unexpected delight. Small museum with interesting perspectives on time and its measurement. For instance days were measured first (sunrise and sunset, pretty obvious) and months (new moon) - 15,000 BC. Then more than 10,000 years later when agriculture was developed, the rhythm of the year mattered. And so on up to the second half of the 20th century when space exploration required the accuracy of the atomic clock.

Mr S and I also had a lot of fun playing the time related games in the garden! (Pretty much 50/50 winners overall if you’re...