The Clockworks
Where time
goes
electric
February Half Term at The Clockworks
19 & 20 February
About us
The Clockworks is a centre for the study of electrical and precision horology. It encompasses a museum, workshop and library.
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 Scottish inventor Alexander Bain, to the world’s most precise pendulum regulator, made behind the Iron Curtain, this is the most important 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 collection is supported by a Conservator-in-Residence based in our onsite workshop, which is also a training and development hub for the clockmakers of the future.
From the collection
Friday lunch break
Free Curator’s talks, every Friday at 12:30
