Musée de l'horlogerie de Morteau

Om museet

The Musée de l'horlogerie de Morteau was founded in 1985 on the initiative of Constant Vaufrey, a former watchmaker and local elected official who wanted to preserve the watchmaking heritage of the Franche-Comté and make it known to visitors. The Val de Morteau owes much of its prosperity to watchmaking.

The museum occupies the Château Pertusier, a Renaissance-style building dating from the 16th century, which served as a gendarmerie from 1938 to 1985 before housing the collections. The route presented clocks, watchmakers' tools and watches, as well as reconstructed workshops illustrating about two centuries of industrial know-how. Among the pieces mentioned were the first wristwatches designed for pilots in wartime and an astronomical clock.

The museum has been closed since October 2023 for building work lasting at least three years. Its collections are now managed by the Communauté de communes du Val de Morteau. The Château Pertusier has been a construction site since September 2026 and is being converted into the Cité des Horlogers, whose opening is planned for the first half of 2028. In the meantime, a selection of the collections of the former museums in Morteau and Villers-le-Lac is on display at L'Ébauche in Villers-le-Lac.

Højdepunkter

• Collections of clocks, watchmakers' tools and watches
• Reconstructed workshops of industrial watchmaking
• First wristwatches for wartime pilots
• Astronomical clock
• Château Pertusier in Renaissance style

Grundlagt

1985

Ejer

Communauté de communes du Val de Morteau

Entrépriser & rabatter

The museum is closed for construction; the Cité des Horlogers is due to open in the first half of 2028.

Tilgængelighed

The museum is closed for construction; the Cité des Horlogers is due to open in the first half of 2028.

Børn og familie

The museum is closed for construction; the Cité des Horlogers is due to open in the first half of 2028.

Transport & parkering

The museum is closed; the temporary exhibition space L'Ébauche is located in Villers-le-Lac, a few kilometers away.

Service & spisesteder

The museum is closed for construction; the Cité des Horlogers is due to open in the first half of 2028.

Arrangementer & udlejning

The museum is closed for construction; the Cité des Horlogers is due to open in the first half of 2028.