National Watch & Clock Museum
514 Poplar Street
Columbia, PA 17512
717-684-8261
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Go Back in Time at the National Watch & Clock Museum
At the National Watch and Clock Museum you’ll find a fascinating collection over 12,000 clocks, watches, specialized tools, and other items related to time-keeping. This is the largest horological collection in North America. (Horology is the science of timekeeping.)
Explore the History of Timekeeping
Learn the fascinating history of timekeeping devices, from ancient, non-mechanical devices to today’s atomic and radio-controlled clocks.
The museum includes a variety of interactive exhibits as you wind your way through its varied collections. They have timepieces from ancient times to the most modern clocks – English tall case clocks, American watches and clocks, even international time-keeping devices from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Japan, China, and Russia.
Some of the collections you’ll find in the museum include:
- Ancient timepieces
- Early Mechanical Timekeeping
- American watchmaking
- American clockmaking
- European clocks
- Asian timepieces
- Wristwatches
- Monumental clocks
- The Engle Clock
- Tower clocks
- American clocks
- Novelty clocks
Special Programs and Events
You can also learn how a variety types of timepieces work.
Learn more about group tours of the Watch and Clock Museum.
Take a step back in time and enjoy the National Watch and Clock Museum.
National Watch & Clock Museum
514 Poplar Street
Columbia, PA 17512
717-684-8261
