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The Clock Museum from Ploiesti, Romania
If you ever visit Ploiesti, a town that's only 56 kilometres away from the capital city Bucharest, be sure to check out the Clock Museum, the only one of its kind in the vast array of Romanian museums. Opened in 1963, in one of the rooms of the Culture Palace in Ploiesti, due to the work of professor Nicolae Simache, this museum features some of the most amazing time pieces ever seen in Romania.
The professor was so important in the gathering of the clock collection that the Clock Museum now bears his name. It was originally built at the end of the 19th century and bears the mark of the neogothic style. The building was inhabited by conservatory politician Luca Elefterescu and it now hosts a collection of clocks and watches, showcasing the evolution of time keeping, from the solar time measuring devices, the ones that used water or sand, to the modern age's mechanical clocks.
The entry fee is a mere 1 euro, which is ok for the impressive gear you'll find inside the five rooms of the museum. You'll see clocks that belonged to great political personalities, like Kogalniceanu or Cuza, plus a collection of watches, some musical boxes and clock-paintings with moving figurines, made in Germany, Switzerland and Austria in the 18-19th century. The official figures say that inside this neogothic building you'll find over 4000 unique pieces of work (not all of them showcased), among which there's the first pocket watch model, sand clocks and some of the works of great horologists, like George Prior, Eduard Prior, Courvoisier, huge table clocks, musical mechanism time pieces, and various other devices made in Sighisoara, Sibiu, Brasov and Fagaras between the 18th and 19th century.
The visitors of the Clock Museum will get a chance to witness the evolution of time keeping, from the period of sand and water time measurement devices, till the days of horology, a true art in the 17th and 18th century, as was perfume making, before they became an industry. Among the oldest pieces showcased in Ploiesti there are tabernacles and Renaissance pendulums made using bronze covered in gold, engraved or cut.
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