Clock Museum

Klaipėda


If you want to know what makes things tick, look no further than this niche museum that explores human measurement of time, from the earliest sundials to the latest quartz-powered Swiss watch, touching on water clocks, candle clocks and other ways of measuring time. Upstairs, the exhibition looks at the evolution of design and form in clocks over the past four centuries. The sundial garden can be worth the price of admission, on sunny days.


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