Museum

Science Museum (incl. the Clockmakers' Museum)

London, United Kingdom

Clocks, watches and timekeeping instruments from the Science Museum Group collection, and the collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, displayed here since 2015.

The Science Museum grew out of the South Kensington Museum (1857). The Clockmakers' Company began collecting in 1814, making its collection the oldest specialist horological collection in the world; it moved from Guildhall to the Science Museum in 2015.

Type: Museum
Location: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1857
Specialities: English clocks and watches · Electric and atomic timekeeping · Escapement models
Official website: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Map: OpenStreetMap

Opening hours, admission and accessibility change; please check the official website before visiting.

From this collection in the Atlas catalogue

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Instruments · 106

Stopwatch, may have belonged to Ferranti employee, marked 'F Ltd 106', made by Thomas Armstrong.

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 110

Quadruple sand-glass in twelve pillared gilded brass mount. 50, 63, 90, & 110 seconds. Horne Type B. ?Italian. Second half of the 18th century

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 183

Ferguson solar chronometer, Serial Number: 183 Registered No. 576942

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 400-600

Sundial, Greece, 400-600

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 475

Swiss movement (incomplete and broken) with chronometer escapement by Dimier Freres et leic, Fleurier, nos.28981 and 475

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 569

Metronome, France, 569

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 600 BCE

Sundial, Egypt, 600 BCE

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 646

Water clock, Sri Lanka, 646

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1145-1155

Brass Moorish planispheric astrolabe with five plates, a shadow dial on the reverse and silver studs on the rete, c. 1150, IC 1058 [international checklist].

Science Museum Group, London