Switzerland | Zurich // Beyer Zurich Clock and Watch Museum This unique museum of time measurement shows many different pieces from all over the world and from all epochs, such as gnomons, sundials, oil-clocks, hour-glasses, clepsydras, long case clocks,...
Switzerland | Saignelégier // Brodbeck Guillocheur, Workshop about guillochage in watchmaking and other industries Presentation of an artisanal and operational engine-turner's workshop. The use of a geometric lathe, or rose machine, has become an artform restricted almost exclusively to the most...
Switzerland | La Chaux-de-Fonds // Girard-Perregaux Museum - Villa Marguerite The Villa Marguerite was inaugurated in 1999. Acquired by Girard-Perregaux the previous year, this beautiful building was restored to house the Manufactory's private museum.On...
Switzerland | Basel // Haus zum Kirschgarten, Clock and Watch Collection, Basel Timepieces made in Western European clock making centres between the 15th and 19th centuries, especially sundials, carriage clocks, enamelled gold watches and timepieces made in Basel...
Switzerland | Travers NE // Industrial Museum The Atelier Léopold Bourquin is a mechanical workshop which has been reconstituted. Its special feature: a single engine operates by many transmissions, pulleys and belts ten machines,...
Switzerland | La Chaux-de-Fonds // International watchmaking museum In exceptional surroundings you can admire the most outstanding pieces, while retracing the history of time measurement from the beginning until modern days. On top of that, enjoy...
Switzerland | Delémont // Jurassian Museum of Art and History, Screw-machining Exhibition The “Musée jurassien d'art et d'histoire” is the cultural repository of those parts of the Jura region which once belonged to the Bishopric of Basle. Since its foundation in 1909,...
Switzerland | Fleurier // L.U.CEUM - Traces of Time Located in the Chopard Manufacture in Fleurier, the L.U.CEUM invites visitors to follow the traces of time. An inventive museography highlights masterpieces of watchmaking from different periods...
Switzerland | Le Brassus // Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet The new museum designed by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) unifies the original workshop, established by Audemars Piguet’s founders in 1875, with a new all-glass structure, made up of two spirals that...
Switzerland | Genève // Musée d'art et d'histoire, Horological Collection, Geneva Envisaged as a didactic tool, the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, at the time of its creation, gave pride of place to the applied arts, a vast domain with shifting boundaries where art and object meet...