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KLAIPEDA CLOCK MUSEUM

Address
Opening times
Admission charge
Additional services

Exposition
Exhibitions
History fragments



Klaipeda Clock Museum

 

 

Exhibit of the museumAddress
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.

 

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