Matsumoto City Timepiece Museum, Horological museum in Chūō district, Matsumoto, Japan
The Matsumoto City Timepiece Museum opened on 1 September 2002 as a branch of the Matsumoto City Museum, in a reinforced-concrete building of four floors shared with the Honmachi Hall community hall. Its three museum floors hold about 400 pieces, 110 of them on permanent display, centred on the collection donated in 1974 by the watch collector Chikazo Honda (1896–1985).
The museum was founded in 2002 and documents how timekeeping technology developed over many centuries. The collection shows how people in different cultures and time periods found ways to measure and keep track of time.
The collection centres on about 400 timepieces donated in 1974 by the collector Chikazō Honda (1896–1985), of which 110 are on permanent display. The museum opened on 1 September 2002 as a branch of the Matsumoto City Museum, in a building shared with the Honmachi Hall of the shopping street association.
The museum is about a 10-minute walk from Matsumoto Station and is easy to reach on foot. Visitors should check opening hours before arriving since they vary throughout the week.
The pendulum clock on the exterior wall is one of Japan's largest, with a total length of 11 metres and a 5.6-metre pendulum. The museum building is shared with the Honmachi Hall, a community hall of the local shopping street association. The collection centres on about 400 items donated in 1974 by the clock collector Chikazō Honda (1896–1985).
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