The Clockworks
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What’s on
Friday lunch break
Curator’s talks at The Clockworks every Friday at 12:30
Free; no booking required.
About us
The Clockworks is a centre for the study of electrical and precision horology. It encompasses a museum, library, archive, conservation workshop and event space.
Its heart is the world-class collection of electrical clocks, timekeepers and associated technologies assembled over 30 years by the historian James Nye.
From the pioneering electrical clock designed in the 1840s by the Scottish inventor Alexander Bain, to the world’s most precise pendulum regulator, made behind the Iron Curtain by Feodosii Fedchenko, this is the most important and representative publicly accessible collection of electrical clocks anywhere in the world. It charts the development of standardised, networked time – something we now take entirely for granted.
The Clockworks also has a fully equipped onsite workshop, and a regular Conservator-in-Residence. This enables us to support and help develop electro-technical conservators – an area where we have identified a significant national and international skills gap.
From the collection
