Ruhlaer Uhrenmuseum

Aktuelle udstillinger

Om museet

From 1862 onward, Ruhla developed into a major center of clock and watch manufacturing. At their peak, the factories employed up to 8,000 people, who produced millions of timepieces and movements – from alarm clocks and wristwatches to chess clocks and chronometers.

The museum was set up in 2002 as a company and technology museum by Gardé Uhren und Feinmechanik Ruhla GmbH, a successor to the Ruhla watch factory, and reopened in October 2006 after an expansion. It is located on the first floor of a six-story brick building from 1929, the last surviving building of the once extensive factory complex, where watches are still assembled today. After the previous operator went bankrupt, the POINTtec group from Ismaning took over the factory and museum in 2019 and continues to run them as Uhrenwerke Ruhla.

On display are more than 1,300 clocks and watches made in Ruhla, 35 machines and automatic devices, and around 50 information panels on the technology and production history. Since December 2023, the exhibition "Uhren messen die Zeit" (Clocks Measure Time) on the third floor, curated by two professors from the Duale Hochschule Gera-Eisenach, has added to the museum's offering. A factory outlet selling watches of the brands made here is attached.

Højdepunkter

• More than 1,300 clocks and watches made in Ruhla
• 35 production machines and automatic devices
• The GDR's secret atomic clock in the exhibition "Uhren messen die Zeit"
• Museum in the last surviving factory building, where watches are still made
• Factory outlet – admission is free when you buy a watch

Permanente udstillinger

• Ruhlaer Uhrengeschichte – More than 1,300 clocks and watches, 35 machines and automatic devices, and information panels illustrate the technology and production history of Ruhla's watchmaking industry.

Grundlagt

2002

Ejer

Uhrenwerke Ruhla GmbH (POINTtec)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Admission covers the clock museum and the special exhibition. Admission is free if you buy a watch in the museum shop.

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Børn og familie

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Transport & parkering

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Service & spisesteder

• Museumsbutik

Factory outlet and service center of Uhrenwerke Ruhla (brands Ruhla, Zeppelin, Bauhaus, Iron Annie).

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