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Clocks and Watches

In The Danish Museum of Clocks and Watches in The Old Town a fully equipped watchmaker's shop and workshops for both tower clocks and normal clocks are exhibited.

From hourglass to mechanical clock
The Danish Museum of Clocks and Watches houses the largest exhibition of Danish and foreign clocks and watches in Denmark. It shows the development from sun dials and hourglasses to the mechanical clocks which were made by the watchmakers of the market towns and the villages. In the beginning the clocks only had an hour hand but the most sophisticated of the mechanical clocks show time in tenths of a second and can also show the position of the planets in the sky. The first Danish mechanical clocks date from the 16th century.

Long-case clocks
The exhibition also houses a large collection of long-case clocks. Among the watchmakers represented here, clocks made by the world famous Danish watchmaking dynasty Jürgensen in Copenhagen, the English Green family of Aabenrå and Jens Olsen, who made the world clock in the city hall of Copenhagen, are worth mentioning.