Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie

Switzerland

• Audemars Piguet Museum
• Beyer Zurich Clock and Watch Museum
• Brodbeck Engine Turners
• Cité du Temps (exhibition space)
• Fleurier au fil du temps
• Girard-Perregaux Museum - Villa Marguerite
• Historisches Museum Basel
• Industrial Museum
• International Watchmaking Museum
• Iron and Railway Museum
• Jurassian Museum of Art and History
• Kellenberger Collection
• L.U.CEUM - Traces of Time
• Museum of Machine-Tools
• Museum of timekeepers and mechanical musical instruments
• Musée TAG Heuer 360
• Musée d'art et d'histoire
• Omega Museum
• Patek Philippe Museum
• Swiss-Type Automatic Lathe Museum
• The Horological Museum
• Villa JeanRichard
• Watchmaking Space
• Zum Rösli Clock Museum, Zurich

Museum of timekeepers and mechanical musical instruments

The museum

• The museum
• Bernese night clock, 18th century

Museum of timekeepers and mechanical musical instruments

Valuable objects coming from private collections are displayed in 8 typical rooms. The visitors are led by experienced guides through 7 centuries of craftsmanship. The collection comprises clocks/pocket and pendant watches/wrist watches and exquisite musical rarities/ barrel organs/reed and pipe organs/merry-go-round organs/orchestrions/music boxes/automatons.

Useful information

Musée d'horlogerie et d'instruments de musique mécaniques
Staatsstrasse
3653 Oberhofen
Phone : +41 (0)33/243 43 77
Website : www.uhrenmuseum.ch and www.kulturbeo.ch

Opening hours

Mid-May - mid-Oct, Tu-Sa, 10.00-12.00,14.00-17.00
Su, 10.00-17.00
mid-Oct - mid-May, Su, 14.00-17.00
Groups on appointment