Watch Industry Museum Villingen-Schwenningen
The clock industry museum is located in the Schwenningen district of the Baden-Württemberg city of Villingen-Schwenningen in Germany .
It was founded in 1994 on the premises of the former Württemberg watch factory in Bürk . Since then, alarm clocks such as those made in Schwenningen in the 1920s have been produced on old, restored machines by voluntary employees of the museum in demonstrations and special exhibitions .
The lively watch industry museum was built in the face of increasing reports of watch factory bankruptcies since 1989. The aim was to found a museum in which both the living conditions of ordinary people in the watch industry and the industrial production of an alarm clock should be shown.
The museum is primarily not concerned with clocks per se, but with the industrial manufacture of clockworks. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this industry was the economic basis of Schwenningen, which called itself “the world's largest clock city”. The operational machines are the core and the main attraction of the museum. A number of clocks from Schwenningen's clock factories are also on display.
In 2003 the museum received the Luigi Micheletti Award from the European Museum Council for the best technical museum in Europe.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 52.6 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 51.6 ″ E