Laikrodžių muziejaus ekspozicija

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Barokas; Eklektika; Klaipėda; Klasicizmas; Laikas; Laikrodis; Laikrodžių muziejus; Lietuvos meno istorija, muziejų tyrimai, taikomasis menas, kolekcija; Renesansas; Baroque; Classicism; Clock; Eclecticism; Klaipėda; Lithuanian art history, museum studies, applied art, collection; Museum of Clocks; Renaissance; Time.

ENIn 2012 the LAM Department Lithuanian Museums’ Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS started to develop audio guide text for Lithuanian Clock Museum. It contains 30 selected most valuable clocks on display at the museum, which reflect the mechanism development history and represent different artistic styles. This article, prepared according to the audio guide mentioned, aims to present a detailed presentation of the exhibits selected for the audio guide and to highlight their uniqueness. Throughout history humans tried to answer the question what is time. Developed civilizations tried to know, learn to count and master time since the very old days. Visiting Lithuanian Clock Museum exposition reassures that it is not so simple to count time and that various nations understood it differently. Moreover, the visitors can find out that common time counting system that we know today was created only in the 19th century. The exposition of the Clock Museum provides the visitors with an opportunity to see more than 400 original and rare clocks and to see a clockmaker’s workshop during the Renaissance. The exposition consists of two parts. The first floor presents time counting principles and the development of clock construction from the ancient times until today. The visitors are introduced to calendars, ancient sun, water, fire, sand, mechanical and other clocks. The second floor introduces the changes in the form and design of mechanic clocks from 16th to 20th century. The exposition displays the works of the famous European and Lithuanian clock makers – Theodor Tarasovig, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Theodore Perret and others. The remaining part of the 19th century park near the building of the museum was turned into a courtyard with working sundials. After taking a look at the exposition of the clocks, the visitors are invited to take a walk in the Sundial Park. [...]. [From the publication]