List of bell museums
A museum that provides information about the history and technology of bell casting is called a bell museum . Often visitors can listen to bells or ring them themselves.
Museums and collections of bells and materials related to the history of bell making exist in numerous countries. Often they were created at the headquarters of traditional bell foundries in the function of company museums . Smaller groups of bells belong to the holdings of many museums of cultural history. Individual collections are mainly dedicated to small objects such as handbells and bells .
Bell museums all over the world
Belgium
China
Denmark
Germany
- Bell and City Museum , Apolda
- Bells of the sculpture collection of the Bode Museum , Berlin
- German Bell Museum , Gescher
- Westphalian Bell Museum , Gescher
- World of bells at Greifenstein Castle , Greifenstein (Hesse)
- Bell Museum Stiftskirche Herrenberg in the tower of the collegiate church , Herrenberg
- Bell Museum Laucha , on the site of the former Ulrich bell foundry , Laucha an der Unstrut
- Medieval bronzes in the “Arts and Crafts” collection of the Germanic National Museum , Nuremberg
- German bell archive, part of the historical archive of the Germanic National Museum since 1966
- Bell museum of the bell foundry Rudolf Perner , Passau
- Eiserfeld Bell Museum , Siegen
England
- Whitechapel Bell Foundry Museum , London
- John Taylor Bell Foundry Museum , Loughborough
France
- Bell Museum of the Paccard Bell Foundry , Sévrier
- Musée de la cloche et de la Sonnaille , Hérépian
- European Bell Museum L'Isle-Jourdain
- Bollée Bell Museum , at the Bollée bell foundry , Saint-Jean-de-Braye
Italy
Netherlands
Austria
Switzerland
- Bell foundry H. Rüetschi , Aarau
Spain
- Bell Museum Meruelo , Meruelo ( Cantabria )
United States
- Bell Museum of the Verdin Company Bell Foundry , Cincinnati
- International Bell Museum, Evergreen ( Jefferson County (Colorado) )
- Bells collection Bast Bell Museum , German (Wisconsin)