Address
12 Liepu Street, LT-92145, Klaipeda.
Tel. +370-46-410414.
Fax +370-46-410417.
E-mail: klm@takas.lt
Web Site: http://www.muziejai.lt/klm/index.htm
Opening
times
Tuesday to Saturday 12.00-18.00.
Sunday and National Holiday Eve 12.00-17.00
Admission
Charge
Admission charge – Lt
6;
Pupil, student and OAP – Lt 3;
Guides tours – Lt 50.
Child under 7, disabled, ICOM member – free.
Additional
services
Guided tours by arrangement;
Lectures, seminars, art appreciation classes, drawing classes, etc by
prior arrangement;
Museum grounds hire for events up to 300 persons;
Every Saturday and Sunday 12.00-12.30 in the Clock Museum Courtyard -
Carillon Music Concert.
Exposition
Exhibitions
History
fragments
Klaipeda Clock Museum was opened
in 1984 in a renovated 19th century's building. Its exposition consists of
two parts. The first part introduces the development of the construction
of time measuring devices from older times until today; originals, models
or reconstructed copies of ancient calendars, sun, water, fire and sand
clocks, mechanical time measuring devices; exhibits which show the change
of clock forms from Renaissance to modern styles. Together with the clocks
from different countries, characteristic furniture and artistic works are
selected and displayed according to particular periods. A part of a 19th
century park is still preserved near the museum and a large "quator"
clock is on display in the closed courtyard. A vertical sun clock showing
the time of Klaipeda latitude is mounted on one wall and the monumental
composition "The Sun's Path Through Constellations" - on
another. A working belfry is located in the old post office building near
the museum and on weekends one can listen to concerts of carillon (bell)
music. Music festivals, poetry, theatre, dancing eve and other events also
take place in Clock Museum courtyard.