MUSEUMS & INSTITUTIONS
This section showcases horology museums, as well as institutions directly related to the horological universe, such as those dedicated to machinery and tools or watchmaking professions. Exhibition spaces, expos or museums dedicating a portion of their area to collections of watches and clocks may also be included.
SWITZERLAND
- Musée International d’Horlogerie – La Chaux-de-Fonds – Neuchâtel 🎥
- Musée de la Boite de Montre – Le Noirmont – Jura 🎥
- Maison des Mascarons, Musée régional du Val-de-Travers – Môtiers – Neuchâtel 🎥
- Musée d’Horlogerie du Locle, Château des Monts – Le Locle – Neuchâtel
- Espace Horloger de la Vallée de Joux – Le Sentier – Vaud
- Uhrenmuseum Winterthur – Winterthur – Zurich
- Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet – Le Brassus – Vaud
- Musée Omega – Bienne – Berne
- Patek Philippe Museum – Genève – Genève
- SSC Société Suisse de Chronométrie – Neuchâtel – Neuchâtel
EUROPE
Austria
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
- Musée de l’Horlogerie et du Décolletage – Cluses – Haute-Savoie 🎥
- Le Musée de la Montre – Villers-le-Lac – Doubs
- Musée des Arts et Métiers – Paris – Paris
- Musée des Horloges Comtoises et des Automates – Morteau – Doubs
- Musée du Temps – Besançon – Doubs
- Musée Japy – Beaucourt – Territoire de Belfort
- Musée des Arts Précieux Paul Dupuy – Toulouse – Haute-Garonne
- Le Louvre – Permanent exposition – Paris
Germany
- Deutsches Uhren Museum – Furtwangen – Bade-Wurtemberg
- Dorf & Uhrenmuseum – Gütenbach – Bade-Wurtemberg
- Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon – Dresden – Saxe
- Saarländisches Uhrenmuseum – Püttlingen / Köllerbach – Saar
- Schwäbisches Turmuhrenmuseum – Mindelheim – Bavière
- Uhrenindustriemuseum – Villingen-Schwenningen – Bade Wurtemberge
- Uhrenmuseum Glasshütte – Glasshütte – Saxe
Italy
- Museo Galileo – Florence
- Museo dell’orologio da torre – Uscio
- Museo dell’orologio da torre – San Giacomo
Lithuania
Netherlands
Romania
United Kingdom
- The Clockmakers’ Museum – London
- Museum of Time Keeping & The British Horological institute – Newark on Trent – Nottinghamshire
- Coventry Watch Museum – Coventry – West Midlands
- The British Museum Clocks & Watches (2 rooms) – London
- National Museums Liverpool (2 rooms) – Liverpool – Merceyside
- Royal Obsrvatory / Royal Museums Greenwich (Chronomètres Harrison) – London
MIDDLE EAST
Iran
UAE
- Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, Sharjah (Islamic timing history is displayed in the Ibn al Haytham Gallery of Science and Technology)
ASIA AND OCEANIA
Russia
- Museum of time and clocks – Moscow
- Moscow Kremlin Museums – Permanent exposition – Moscow
- The Russian Clock Museum – Orel
- The Hermitage Museum – Permanent exposition – St.Petersbourg
China
- Palace Museum (Fengxian Temple – Forbidden City) – Beijing
- Macau Timepiece Museum – Macao
- The Seagull Watch Museum – Tianjin
- Dalai Time Museum, Shanghai
South Korea
AMERICAS
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