Travel Guide
Tower Clock Museum
This Branch of Gdansk History Museum is located in the tower of Saint Catherine’s Church in Gdansk. This is the oldest parish church in Gdansk, whose origins date back to the 12th century. The Museum collects and preserves tower clock mechanisms that are significant for this field of science. At the end of the 1960’s, the production of mechanical public clocks was discontinued in favour of electrical mechanisms controlled by quartz resonator and then directly by radio waves.
The disappearing clock mechanisms, even those from the first half of the 20th century, are important monuments of material culture. The accumulated collection spans the entire period of development of clock-making from the 15th to the 20th century. Now it contains absolutely unique cross-bar balance clocks that predate the invention of the pendulum; numerous cast iron mechanisms, mainly of Gdansk origin from the end of the 17th and the 18th centuries; splendid factory made clocks manufactured in the 19th century, the era of steam and electricity; and electro-mechanical clocks from the 20th century. The Museum staff are also responsible for looking after a number of historical clocks in situ all over Poland.
Address: Wielkie Mlyny Street
Branch is closed for visitors.
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