Uhrenmuseum, Vienna

The Uhrenmuseum is the famous Viennese home of clocks, and they have every kind of imaginable display of them. It is a very unique place, in that there are not a lot of other places like it in all of Europe. The location is inside an old Viennese home that has part of its foundation still intact from the Middle Ages. It is also located in a very historical section of town.

The variety is time pieces on display here is amazing. There are even pieces that chime the hour all over the facility. Examples of time keeping devices are represented here from as far back as the Fifteenth Century. The museum goes beyond just variety though, as they try to actually share the history of how our clocks have evolved over the course of time.

Two famous private collections are also on display here. You can see the display from Rudolph Kaftan, who was the first curator of the institution, to the unmatched exhibit owned by the famous author Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. The location is open every day of the week but Monday, from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. During the Christmas vacation week, the hours of closing are reduced to 2:00 p.m.