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Visit clock museums in the Black Forest

Villingen-Schwenningen: Former Württemberg watch factory in Bürk, today the home of the Watch Industry Museum.

Learn more about the world of watches

A visit to a watch museum in the Black Forest is worthwhile.
You will find many exciting stories about clocks and cuckoo clocks in Schwenningen and Furtwangen.

Villingen-Schwenningen Watch Industry Museum

The cuckooclocks.shop Technician Raphael S. lives in the Black Forest and did this during his school days Watch Industry Museum Schwenningen visited. He can still remember interesting machines and old workshops. Schwenningen was mainly for his Alarm clock famous.
In Schwenningen, once the largest clock city in the world, the world of watches can be admired in a very special way.
Im Clock Industry Museum you will find many Exhibits and items that for the Manufacture of clocks were needed. Let go Machines fascinate, which make your work easier and learn more about alarm clocks and other movements from the former producers from Schwenningen.
A special highlight of the German Watch Route is the award of the Luigi Micheletti Prize for the technology-historical 'European Museum of the Year'.
Villingen-Schwenningen: Former Württemberg watch factory in Bürk, today the home of the Watch Industry Museum.
Photo by LepoRello. Which CC BY-SA 3.0
Wall clock depicting the Furtwang industrial hall, the first permanent exhibition building of the 'Historical Clock Collection', around 1880 (German Clock Museum, inv. 2011-044)
Photo by Museum Photo - German Watch Museum. Which CC BY-SA 3.0

German Watch Museum Furtwangen

You can find more knowledge about clocks in the German Watch Museum in Furtwangen.

There you will find the most comprehensive collection of watches worldwide. In the collection are around 8000 clocks. The museum also has a large specialist library and a rich one Company publication archive.

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